Today is my dad’s birthday. He was born February 19, 1903 and died February 4, 1972, just a couple of weeks after my 19th birthday. My dad was a native Texan; his mother, Mollie Fitzgerald Leatherwood, came from one of the founding families of Fannin County where he and his nine siblings were born and…
Month: February 2016
Grants, New Mexico
We are headed back to CA on I-40. We are spending the night in Grants and will hopefully make it to LA in time tomorrow to go see Sarah, Luna and Nico (Gregorio is working late tomorrow). I believe Rachael may be there, too. (Not sure about Liz and Ron.) The trouble is it is…
Flash Fiction Revisited: Relief
The day was cold. Camille pulled on her jacket and trudged outside for a cigarette. Damn these new laws that made standing by the dumpster behind the building the only acceptable place to smoke. And what a social pariah she had become. Almost everyone in the call center glared at her when she left, and…
Today in Texas
Quiet evening at home. So nice. Reading a cozy mystery written by one of my writing friends. Her review will soon appear right here on this blog. We had great success today with renters. The small apartment upstairs and the cottage out back have been rented by two women who seem authentic and trustworthy. Hooray….
A Good Day Here at Lyon House
The weather here in North Texas is spring-like with a light breeze and a warm (but not hot) sun. I woke up this morning to birdsong outside my window. Flowers are blooming. People here say winter so far has been mild. Everyone seems to have a spring in their step. I can understand why. It…
At Our Sherman Home After An Art Detour
Yes! We have made it. Hooray. In the wee hours of this morning, we arrived in Fort Worth at the condo that we are selling there. We spent the night and today headed over to the Renzo Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell Art Museum to see the Gustave Caillebotte exhibit entitled, “A Painter’s Eye.” This…
Trip Update
McAlister’s Deli in Big Spring, Texas, 4 hours from Fort Worth. 9:30 pm. Ugh. Okay, well, we will have a little food and drive and pull over if we get too tired. The plan. We have been driving since 8:30 this morning when we started in Tucson. El Paso had highway construction that literally added…
In Tucson, Finally
It’s 1:49 am Mountain Time and an hour and forty-five minutes past when we had planned to stop back in Phoenix. Actually, we had no plan to even come the southern route on I-10, but after going 5 miles in 45 minutes on I-15 outside of LA, we flipped our direction and headed south to the…
Preparing to Travel
Ray and I decided that starting tomorrow for Texas made more sense than dashing around all day today in some mad rush to leave by early evening. We have business to attend to, but not on such a rigid schedule that we are forced to push ourselves into some preconceived plan of action. Instead, we’ve…
A Bit of This and That
Ray is on the mend. No fever today though still coughing. Still, he feels much better. Preparing for the Texas drive. Wrapping up details for a week away feels endless. Hopefully, all will fall together tomorrow so we can drive off with ease. I believe it will. Just tired right now. Went to church tonight…
20 Minutes a Day 