Since the beauty of Spring is popping up all over, making me smile a lot, I thought it a good time to have Slim Randles share his ode to Spring. Not that he calls it that, as you’ll discover when you read on, but it is a heartfelt tribute to this birth of new life
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Since I have not had time to write a blog post, I’ll just turn the space over to my friend Slim Randles. When he lets Windy Wilson take the stage, we have to be prepared for anything. Thankfully that anything can be quite entertaining. So grab a cookie, read on and enjoy! Now before you
It tried to be spring here in my corner of Texas the other day. Temperature got all the way up to 73 degrees and the daffodils decided it was time to poke their pretty little heads up to bask in the sunshine. Windy Wilson is my guest today – brought to you by the humor
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While I always enjoy Slim Randles’ humor, there’s something special about his essays, in which he takes reflective look at live in a poetic way. This one about country evenings is a keeper. Enjoy… But first a treat. I don’t think it’s too soon for testing the pumpkin pies many of us will be serving
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LIBERTY BELLAnd TheLAST AMERICANbyJames Stoddard Alternative History / Science FictionPublication Date: April 4, 2021 *** 347 pages SCROLL DOWN FOR A GIVEAWAY! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Americans love their Constitution. In seventeen-year-old Liberty Bell’s era it has become a myth. Centuries after the Great Blackout obliterates the world’s digitized information, America’s history is forgotten. Only confused legends remain, written
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First off, I’m so excited about taking first place in the photography entries in the Sherman Art League annual show. When I dropped my entries early on Thursday and saw the other photographs already entered, I’d pretty much decided that my humble offerings wouldn’t garner more than a passing glance from the judge. In fact,
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Since I’m still in recovery mode from my shoulder surgery and some complications that popped up – literally as in swollen feet and legs – I’m pulling a post from July 2015. My friend Slim Randles wrote about what the Fourth of July holiday means in this thoughtful essay about parades, flags, and Independence Day.
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I wrote the following post Tuesday early afternoon before hearing about the shooting at the school in Uvalde. My posts are often written the day before they go live, often to give myself a chance to edit or change entirely. I’m not going to change this one. We do need a moment to focus on
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Washed in the Blood bySHELTON L. WILLIAMS Genre: Memoir / Biography / True CrimeNEWLY UPDATED!Date of Publication: February 17, 2022 ** 175 pages Scroll down for Giveaway! The true story behind the Kiss and Kill murder in Texas in 1961. Author Larry King says: Washed in the Blood is a page-turning read about the time–early
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Since I’m plumb out of ideas and time but wanted to have a new blog post up, I thought I’d see what Slim Randles has to offer as a holiday-themed essay, and this is a good one. He’s given us glimpses of Mabel’s life in the retirement home before, always presented in a warm, thoughtful