If it’s true that our parents watch over us after they die, then perhaps Mom is chuckling at her daughter the dorkette. Maybe Dad is too. Mom would have many…
Category: Life in general
Originally, the coreopsis (tall plant, yellow blooms, photo below) became the centerpiece of its own picture because I wanted to show my friends. This beauty is a rescue plant from…
The headline above ends in a question mark because it’s a thought that occurs to me often when I think about dividing lines among people, especially when I visit Facebook…
The day my 28-inch bypass loppers broke revealed to me that I was the nut that others perhaps already recognized but were too polite to mention. The unfortunate lopper incident…
The interview for this story took place in 2013 as part of a series of stories about dance halls in the Central Texas area, published by Guadalupe-Blanco River Authority. Two…
It’s the time of year to rake over the scars of last year’s gardening wounds and work toward a better year. Since many of us like to follow the calendar…
Sam hated to have his feet touched, so they got touched a lot. Just one index finger poking one footpad out of all those footpads…and the foot would jerk away.…
Our school district just hosted its annual lunch for public school mentors and for those who think they want to be mentors. As a seasoned veteran with one year (!) of…
Of course, these are not fireworks at all, just surplus spider lilies (Hymenocallis liriosme) from the garden of a friend. They decided to bloom a couple of days ago. Every time…
One of the most informative peach growers in the Texas Hill Country just sent out an email saying that the 2014 peach crop will rival that of 2010. Here is…