Please welcome Chris Redding as she shares some advice to make this a kinder world…. She also has a gift for one lucky visitor, so please leave a comment. Son #2 has a shirt from his cross country coach that has a message I think is great: Train Hard, Run Fast, Be Nice. Just Be […]
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Since it is Halloween, I thought I would tell you about our two new kittens who could be Halloween cats. We got them two weeks ago, but we didn’t plan on getting black cats. I don’t even like black cats, and the lady who was fostering these kittens, along with several others, had told me
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Thanks to Carl Brookins for another terrific review…. Snakeheadby Peter MayPoisoned Pen PressHardcover, 312 pages,ISBN: 9781590586068 This is the ourth in the author’s China Thriller series to be published by this press. Make no mistake this is one scary and thrilling book. So thrilling, in fact I had the sense toward the end of being
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David E. Abbot, a Community Voices columnist for The Dallas Morning News went out on a limb in a recent column by suggesting that there be no more pink ribbons at NFL games and NASCAR. Lest he incur the wrath of women everywhere, he did start by saying he does appreciate the efforts to raise
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While I’m over at The Blood Red Pencil blog today having some fun with writing tips from the comics, my friend Slim Randles stopped by to share the latest from the gang down at the Mule Barn’s philosophy counter. We knew. We looked at Dewey and we knew tragedy had struck. Naturally we assumed his
The opening weekend of “Arsenic and Old Lace” ended yesterday with a matinee, and it might have been the best performance of the four. At least it was for me in many ways. I really felt connected to the other characters and “in” each scene. Performing in a play is so much more than just
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I’m over at Lelia Taylor’s blog Buried Under Books, where we are talking about cats and crooks and mystery writers and mystery bookstore owners. Stop by if you get a chance and share your experience with cats. And thanks again to Carl Brookins for providing another book review.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Rock Holeby Reavis Z. WorthamISBN: 978-1-59058-884-02011
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Eugene Robinson was courageous in speaking out against the death penalty for Lawrence Russell Brewer, who, along with two other men, committed a heinous hate crime in Jasper Texas some years ago. The three white supremacists murdered James Byrd Jr. after offering him a ride. They killed him by dragging him behind their pickup truck.
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I’ve posted about this issue before, and I only raise it again because apparently government approval of the XL Pipeline that will bring tarsands oil from Canada to refineries in Houston is close. Robert Bryce, in a recent column said that President Obama will probably give that approval because not doing so will hurt his
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At a writer’s workshop a long time ago, an editor of True Confessions Magazine suggested that if we were interested in writing for them or one of the other similar publications, we should read the advice columns in the newspapers for story ideas. Writing for those magazines was a good source of income for a
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