Today I am a guest at Buried Under Books with a fun piece about a cat. I have shared several stories at that blog about my cats, and this one is about my son’s cat, who swears she was held captive here. Hop over to the blog if you get a chance and see what […]
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This is my day to contribute at the blog, All Day, All Night, written by a group of us who all share the same name. The spelling might be different, but we are all Maryann’s. We are not, however, “down by the seashore sifting sand.” We are all writers busy at work. My blog post
The business part of my trip was almost as much fun as the personal part. It is always great to meet new bookstore staff and spend time sharing what kinds of books we like to read and why. Sometimes I am even tempted to buy a book the staff recommends and expand my reading habits.
Book signings can be fun Read More »
Today in real life I am in Memphis visiting family. But in cyberspace I am a guest on Joslyn Vaughn’s blog. If you have a minute stop by her blog for a visit. I should be back home over the weekend, and will recap my vacation and book tour over the next week. In the
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Those of you who use Blogger.com for you own blogs noticed that there have been problems with the site most of the past few days. We couldn’t get access to publish our posts, and that sure threw a wrench into our schedules, didn’t it? And now I don’t know what to title this post. It
No book review today. I am a guest at Lelia Taylor’s Creatures and Crooks Books Blog today. Well, that is not entirely accurate. One of our cats, Little John, is a guest there. If you have time, hop over and see what he has to say. I have done several blog pieces about our cats
When I was cleaning my small pasture this morning I noticed these mushrooms. Needless to say I put the shovel down and went to get my camera before my horse could step on the mushrooms and squash them. This one looks like a little cap that a child might have for a doll. I’ve seen
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The following is another excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. I am almost finished with the second draft and have been sending out a couple of preliminary queries. No family would be complete without their pets. We have had a number of them through the years, and they all
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Sometimes you just have to do it. Forget the alarm clock. Sleep in. Waste time, and otherwise be somewhat irresponsible. So that’s what I did this morning. All last week I forced myself to try to get up at something close to my normal time so I could stay on my usual schedule, but this
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One of my favorite things to see in the spring is all the wild, and not so wild, daffodils as they start popping up. Here in East Texas they grow wild along the roadways, but they are also popular flowers for home landscaping. They come up before the grass starts to grow so they can
Spring is busting out all over Read More »