Friday’s Odds and Ends
There was an interesting article in last Sunday’s Dallas Morning News written originally in the Princeton Alumni magazine by Lawrence Otis Graham, an attorney and author. His article, Wealth can’t protect your kids from racism, had some interesting things to say about the problem. What prompted the article was in incident involving his 15-year-old son […]
Monday Morning Musings
First off some book news. I’m about to re-release a mystery, Doubletake, that I wrote with a co-author a number of years ago. It’s another police procedural, but not part of the Seasons Series. It was published by a small publisher, and maybe sold ten copies, other than those I sold at signing events or […]
Friday’s Odds and Ends
A recent story in the Dallas Morning News reported that the reservoirs serving the Dallas-area are 10% lower than a year ago and the continuing drought does not indicate that it’s going to get any better. The area is more than 30 inches shy of normal rainfall over the last six years, yet nobody has […]
Monday Morning Musings
Since it is almost noon here in Texas, maybe I should title this, Monday Afternoon Musings. Sorry I’m late. Life keeps interfering. One nice thing to interfere has been ongoing enthusiasm for the Winnsboro history book that I wrote with our local historian. Here I am with Bill Jones at a recent signing event. I […]
Fridays Odds and Ends
One couple in Fort Worth, Texas are missing the home that belonged to the husband’s grandmother. It was demolished by the city when a demolition crew went to the wrong address. The house next to it was the one that was supposed to be razed after being condemned. The owners were not there at the […]
Friday’s Odds and Ends
Tomorrow is the day. The Nite of Comedy plays on the stage at the Winnsboro Center for the arts in Winnsboro, Texas. If you are nearby, consider coming by and supporting the talented Young Players. 200 Market Street – Downtown across from the Depot I noted this past week that one of my favorite Dallas […]
Monday Morning Musings
So, Governor Good-Hair as we sometimes refer to our esteemed Texas governor, has done it again. Rick Perry recently vetoed two bipartisan ethics bills and rescinded state funding for the prosecutors unit that is investigating his cancer research fund. In an article in The Dallas Morning News written by Christy Hoppe and Robert T Garrett […]
Fridays Odds and Ends
In a recent column in The Dallas Morning News, freelance writer Tracy Begland wrote about how the two sides of our brains work together to help us in our creative endeavors. Our left brain, which is the analytical side of our brain, and the creative right side are not at odds with each other, as […]
I’m Officially Old
The other day I mentioned to my husband that I hardly know any of the celebrities mentioned on entertainment shows or written about in the entertainment section of the newspaper. “I wonder if that is part of the official rite of passage for the Social Security set,” I said. He laughed and said he noticed […]
More on Tucker Max
Last week I wrote about the column about Tucker Max in the Dallas Morning News by Jaclyn Friedman, a writer and activist. She criticized him for promoting a sexual philosophy where women are “insulted, tricked, coerced, traded, and then discarded.” There was a flurry of responses to her column, some supporting her stance and others […]
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