Dear Rachael, I have been thinking of you all day since this is your birthday. Let me just say a few things about you that I know: 1) You are one of the nicest people I know. 2) You are smart. 3) You have an exceptional sense of humor. 4) You are one of the…
Month: April 2014
To Ron on His Birthday
Today is Liz’s boyfriend, Ron’s, birthday. Ron and Liz met the first day of law school and have been pretty much joined at the hip since that first meeting. (Or so it seems from a mother’s perspective.) They survived that 2 year accelerated course, then studied for and took the bar together before heading out…
Early Birthday Celebration for Rachael
We have just arrived home after visiting our daughter, Rachael, in McKinney. Friday is her 23rd birthday, but she has to work so we celebrated this evening. Rachael and I both commemorated her birth by going to the Sprint store and getting new iPhones. I have had an android for the longest time and she…
Mea Culpa!
I recently received a letter from The Provo Canyon Review letting me know that one of my flash fiction pieces had been accepted for publication. I was delighted, of course, and very pleased they had accepted “A Brother’s Gift,” a story I am especially fond of. Today I received my notification that the online version of…
Quiet Here after a Trip to “Stinky’s”
I am sitting in our Texas home. The gas fire is bright orange in the old space heater and the outside temperature is heading down to 31 degrees tonight. The lights are low and the only sound I can hear is the traffic from the highway off in the distance. We’ve had a hectic day…
My Handout for the “Writing 20 Minutes a Day” Workshop for SCN
The following is my handout from my 1 1/2 hour workshop today at the Stories of the Heart Memoir Conference in Austin. I think it’s fairly self-explanatory. The conference was exceptional this year for me. I felt as if I took away some critical information related to writing and publishing. Hopefully, my workshop was helpful…
In Austin!
Ray and I are here in Austin, staying with my cousin, Lee, and his wife, Elaine. I am attending the “Stories of the Heart” national memoir conference where I will be presenting a workshop tomorrow morning. Ray is visiting with Lee, Elaine, their kids and our nieces and nephews who live here in Austin. (I…
Big Texas Sky
We made it to Sherman early afternoon and now are enroute to Austin. Ray has decided to join me on the Austin trip since we’ll be seeing family. We’re arriving late so this is my blog post for the night. I am going to take over driving in about 5 minutes. Happy trails, folks. Glad…
Here in Amarillo…
We have made it to Amarillo on our cross-country trip from California. We are now 5 hours from Sherman, which is our Texas home. Today, we drove all day long from early until just about 20 minutes ago, around 11 pm. We stopped in Albuquerque at the Whole Foods for lunch at the salad and…
Texas, Here We Come
It is 1:41 am and we just stopped for the night in Kingman, Arizona. We are headed to Texas to Sherman for Ray and Austin for me so I can attend and present at the Story Circle Network National Memoir Conference. I will also see some of my Austin family, which will be a treat….
20 Minutes a Day 