February 2009

Jumping The Gun

February 28, 2009

I don’t know what the weather is doing in all y’allses neck of the woods, but here in Texas it’s schizophrenic! One morning, I’m wrapped up in long johns and sweaters — by that afternoon I’ve stripped down to shorts and a “wife beater” shirt. It’s probably not politically correct to call those sleeveless shirts [...]

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Brought To You By The Letter “L.” Only The Good Friday.

February 27, 2009

The “L” for today stands for “Lola.” She is a delightful jewelry maker and blogger, in the Canary Islands of Spain, who has a heart as big as Dallas, TX. Look at what she sent me in the mail: BubbleShare: Share photos – Find great Clip Art Images. [Editor's Note: Just found out how to [...]

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Giving Eudora Welty A Second Chance

February 26, 2009

When you were in High School, did you enjoy the reading that you did for your English classes? I find it strange that I consume reading matter like a starving man devours bread (not missing a single crumb) until you tell me I HAVE to read it. If you want me to analyze it, then [...]

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Practicing Avoidance

February 24, 2009

That’s the screen saver I have on my iPhone. The face was hanging on the wall at that wonderful hotel in Madisonville, Texas that I told y’all about. I told you a three part ghost story, (if you didn’t see it start with Just My Imagination?). I wish I had taken a picture of it [...]

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“Bloggy” Housekeeping

February 23, 2009

I hate it when I “bite off more than I can chew.” It happens in the real world and in my virtual blogging world (and I never seem to learn!). Do y’all ever do that? I get ambitious and think I can do tons of different things at once — then it comes crashing down [...]

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Catching Flies

February 22, 2009

Without internet service yesterday, I had to resort to reading a book. As I perused my David Sedaris short stories, my little gray tabby cat jumped on the bed beside me. She took one look at the title, then opened her mouth wide and emitted a huge yawn. She finds Sedaris boring, I guess … [...]

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Give What You Grow. Only The Good Friday

February 20, 2009

I enjoy fresh vegetables from the garden, don’t you? Bell peppers are my favorite things to grow, but I have to admit that the smell of a ripe, red tomato fresh from the vine is almost as wonderful as the smell of bacon frying in the pan. Those washed out tomatoes you can find at [...]

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Taken To The Cleaners

February 18, 2009

The motion has been made and seconded: I have to give up sweating and dribbling. This was put to a vote in The House after a trip to the dry cleaners. It wasn’t a trillion dollar bailout — but it felt like it! I took my favorite sweater (bought on a trip to San Francisco) [...]

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I Can Do This

February 16, 2009

I sat on the front porch step with my chin in my hands and an enormous scowl on my face, as I watched the other children gleefully riding their bicycles down the street. My heart was positively green with envy. Granddaddy carefully eased himself down on the step beside me, using his hands to position [...]

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Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive. Only The Good Friday.

February 13, 2009

Repeat after me: Good Morning! Nooo! Say it with feeling! Good Morning! Now don’t you feel better? You should! Talking “happy” makes you feel happy. It’s official, you see, because I read it in a women’s magazine. That means that it’s true, you know. It was one of those rags that shouted at me at [...]

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Loving Mushrooms, Despite The Origin

February 12, 2009

“Ewww!” my friend moaned, as she wrinkled her nose in disgust. “Those are a fungus! I’m not going to eat them. Lips that touch mushrooms will never touch mine! ” “Good thing I wasn’t going to kiss you,” I answered as I continued to munch my mushrooms. “If you won’t eat them, that leaves more [...]

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Resistance. Part Three of The Ghostly Adventures At The Woodbine.

February 10, 2009

She resides over the piano at The Woodbine Hotel in Madisonville, TX. This picture of the mannequin was one of many photographs I took at the hotel last week. I wandered through the hotel, after dark, with my camera on the tripod while I took random pictures in the hopes of capturing an image of [...]

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Another Verse To The Ghost Story At The Woodbine

February 9, 2009

As I told the students at school in Madisonville about the ghostly footsteps I had heard in the hotel in their town, their mouths dropped open and their eyes grew as big around as breakfast sausages. All of them wanted to know more, and I promised I would go on a ghost hunt and send [...]

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I’m Tentatively Breathing Again

February 7, 2009

I tell you what! I was holding my breath there for a couple of days. I was frantically pulling my hair and moaning. I was ready to give up completely on trying to make this blog work. I’m almost afraid to say it … I might jinx the whole thing … Shhhh… it seems my [...]

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Friends. Only The Good Friday

February 6, 2009

Friends are pretty wonderful to have, aren’t they? I have “met” a lot of wonderful people through the course of the two years I have been blogging. They are people that I love just as much as if I saw them every day. I’m thinking about them right now as I write this and appreciating [...]

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Just My Imagination?

February 5, 2009

… the walls breathe … I heard them. I awoke at 2:30 in the morning at the historic Woodbine Hotel. I should have been able to sleep. The bed is quite comfortable, the temperature in the room was fine, I’d had a soak in the jacuzzi tub in my room before bed and I was [...]

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What’s In The Cards?

February 4, 2009

Did y’all ever want to “see the future?” I did. I wanted to know what was in the cards for me. I wanted to go to some gypsy fortune teller and have her read the tarot cards for me. Of course, I expected that if I paid money for it, then the forecast had better [...]

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