Earlier this week I received a phone call from my niece, Pat, telling me that her father had died a few weeks ago. Somehow in the confusion of the sudden death there was a mix-up in the phone calls, and I was not notified at the time. George Watson was married to my husband’s sister, Mary,
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When my sister told me she had to pay $4,000 for a pill to help her body deal with the effects of chemo she was receiving for breast cancer, I thought we had a bad phone connection. Surely it didn’t cost $4,000 for one little pill. To my dismay, I found out it really does.
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For the sweet part, why don’t we all have a cup of coffee and a piece of this yummy coffee cake? The cake is really easy to prepare, and I used to make a lot when the kids were young, and it was a family favorite, especially on Christmas and Easter mornings. The recipe used
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This has been a very busy, hectic week getting ready for the opening of the play I am in at a local community theatre, The Main Street Theatre in Sulphur Springs, Texas. We are doing “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, and I play the role of Big Mama. We opened last night and will
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It’s a cold, rainy day here in East Texas, so I thought I would start the day with a cup of tea and a biscuit. Care to join me? I can share. It used to be that we had political mudslinging and candidates acting like two-year-olds for about six months before a major election. Then
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Another week has flown by, and I keep wondering where the time went. I remember when my grandmother told me how the days and weeks and months seem to shrink as you get older, I didn’t believe her. But then, I was just a 12-year-old girl. Days were endless to me then, and I was
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Yesterday’s blog hop was so much fun. I hope you had a chance to go visit some of the blogs and see where people went via the wormhole. The big news for Roman Catholics this week is the election of a new Pope, Francis the First. Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires was chosen
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Today I am also blogging over at the Venture Galleries blog. Interested in what makes a criminal’s mind different from ours? Heard on the news the other day that Saturday mail deliveries will be discontinued starting in August. The media is all over this in a big way already, from national news shows to local.
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