Here’s another excerpt from my book, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. This is from the chapter titled School Daze; Is There Hooky in Kindergarten. Enjoy… The beginning of each new school year is always met with varying degrees of eagerness and excitement. There are some kids, like Jason in the comic strip Fox […]
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Here is another excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. Since most of us are still sweltering in the summertime heat, I thought I’d continue from the chapter Summertime Blues. Enjoy…. Another fun part of summer vacations were the skirmishes. Not a kind word could be heard from the troops
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I am doing the Youth Drama Camp again this week, so I am gone from my office most of the time. Thank you Tracy Farr for allowing me to stea… er, borrow your work when I am desperate for a blog piece. Enjoy…. 5 Tips on Surviving Marriage Sadie and Reese are friends of mine
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It’s been a while since I posted an excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck, so here is another offering from the chapter Summertime Blues. Yes, Swimming Does Count as Bathing. Enjoy…. When I was writing my weekly humor column for a suburban newspaper, it was always a challenge each
Recent news reports about schools in Montana that are considering adopting a sex ed course for early elementary students have been flying around the Internet. This latest on the topic was on FoxNews.com: “According to the 62-page draft proposal, beginning in kindergarten, school nurses will teach students proper terms such as “nipple, breast, penis, scrotum
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I’d like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to my mother, and send her some virtual roses. Ours was not a storybook relationship for many years, and it’s only been in the maturity of my own adulthood that I’ve learned to appreciate all she did for me. The product of an unsettled and emotionally
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The following is another excerpt from my humorous memoir, A Dead Tomato Plant and a Paycheck. So far, I haven’t found an agent who loves it yet. Close, but not close enough. Sent another query out yesterday. Enjoy… I remember a phone call we got from our son once. It was about a year after
I hated to just leave my blog stagnant without an explanation. I won’t be posting for the next week or so. My father is dying – it could be any day – and I just don’t have the emotion to rant, or to try to be funny. Grief does that…. If you are praying folks,
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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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While I’ve been busy cleaning up broken branches and fallen trees, some people have actually had time to enjoy the recent snow in East Texas. My friend, Tracy Farr is one of them. Here is just a snippit of the blog he wrote today about building snow people with his daughter. If you get a