“Your daddy is retiring.” My mother said those words about 45 years ago, right after my first real job had begun. The picture that appeared in my head was my…
Category: Writing and publishing
October 6, 2017 KCM Book Reader at Large Texas, USA Dear KCM, Please do not be cross with me for loaning out your copy of ‘The Guernsey Literary and Potato…
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…
The day a young carpenter eagerly showed me a photo of a nail he’d shot into his forearm with a nail gun, I knew I would miss the platoon of…
Here is a photo of my cousin’s rusted loppers. Mystery solved. (See post below.)
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.…
Rayne Hall practices what she teaches in her twitter FOR WRITERS, and this helped both of us before I ever bought a copy of the book in her Writer’s Craft…
The death of a friend pushes life’s minutia into the background. The death of a friend sends you on a pursuit to make sure every other mutual friend knows about…