Friday’s Odds and Ends
I’ve teamed up with 8 other authors to sponsor a neat contest at the Kindle Book Review. You can enter to win a 10″ Kindle Fire HD in the 2018 Memorial Day Giveaway, and find some good reads for only 99¢. Hop over to the contest and enter before it ends on May 31. I’m […]
Book Excerpt – Evelyn Evolving
Before moving on to the excerpt, here is a meme I found online. I couldn’t resist the cute kitten face with that sad expression. It was a wild weekend for many of us in Texas as Hurricane Harold decided to spread havoc over much of the southern and middle portion of the state. We were lucky […]
Friday’s Odds and Ends
Did you watch the beginning of the Olympic coverage last night on prime time? Did you find it odd that the coverage began before the opening ceremonies? I did, so I decided to try to find out why. Sadly, it is primarily about the money. According to an article by Chris Chase in USA Today, […]
How I Love the Government
Every year for the past few years we have come to the end of September with the two parties struggling to get a federal budget approved before there is a threat to shut down the government. The last time the threat was real was 17 years ago, but it doesn’t look promising that we will […]
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The area around my house in the city is not particularly scenic. Many of the houses are very old and run down, and a number of them have lots of junk in the yards. Still, I manage to find some pretty things to photograph. There are a few of these bushes with the bright red […]
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