April 2010

Nesting Guest

April 30, 2010

Don’t look at this picture for the quality of the photography. I’m well aware that it’s not an award winning photo, and I’m stepping out on a limb to show you the jumble of pots on my back porch. I want you to look at it and see only the good (since “good” is what [...]

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Revenge On A Gardener

April 29, 2010

Probably not a single one of you would ever consider getting revenge on anyone. I doubt that you have a mean streak. But, if you do and you want to annoy a gardener, have I got an idea for you! There is an innocuous seeming plant called “lyre leaf sage” that you can give to [...]

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Her Laughter Was My Delight

April 26, 2010

Sleep eluded me on the guest bed at my brother’s house that night in 1977. Tossing and turning in the darkness, I heard a muffled sound … a giggle. It came from the baby’s room. Laughter always fascinates me, especially the mirth of a child, so I slipped from the bed and made my way [...]

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Flaming Fajitas At La Familia

April 25, 2010

You might think that it is absolutely a coincidence that the Fort Worth Fire Department showed up at La Familia Restaurant this last weekend. Is it? Perhaps they know that La Familia has the hottest fajitas in town! Right at the table, the waiters pour tequila over the meat and flames it. This is just [...]

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Good Golly, Miss Molly’s Is Haunted!

April 24, 2010

When we arrived at Miss Molly’s Bed and Breakfast, on Exchange Street in Fort Worth, I told the innkeeper that we wanted to seek the ghosts that haunt the place. “Oh,” she chirped. “Then, we need to close all the Bibles. I keep an open Bible in every room to tell the ghosts who is [...]

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Not Clowning Around

April 23, 2010

I know y’all think that I have too many “favorite charities.” I tell you about a lot of them when Only The Good Friday rolls around, but I’m not clowning around on this one. Ronald McDonald Houses rock and my own family has found that out this week! My niece had a baby who required [...]

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D.M.V. Means: Darned Masterful Virtuoso

April 22, 2010

Y’all probably think that it’s no fun at all to stand in the line at the Department of Motor Vehicles, don’t you? If you think that, you aren’t doing something right. You probably stand there with a scowl on your face, tapping your foot, and checking your watch. Every now and then you heave a [...]

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I’m Too Jaded For The Fort Worth Stockyards

April 21, 2010

When people visit from out of town, the Fort Worth Stockyards is NOT the first place I want to take them. In fact, I avoid taking them there unless they whine … and bribe me with bacon … chocolate … money. I know that if you aren’t from Texas you think that this place is [...]

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It’s Not A Cigar Box, It’s A Treasure Chest

April 20, 2010

Although cigars hold no appeal to me, I adore cigar boxes. I consider them to be “treasure chests.” I like cigar boxes when they are empty of cigars but full of prized possessions. That’s what I use them for these days: the tiny treasures. I have several “vintage” cigar boxes dating from the 1950s and [...]

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Anniversary Waltz

April 19, 2010

Oh, there won’t be any dancing, because I was born with two left feet. However, seven years ago today I married the man of my dreams. Mr. Tucker is a man who enjoys greeting cards. He thrills at receiving them and agonizes over choosing them for others. Those cards always have to contain the perfect [...]

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Comment For The Cure

April 18, 2010

Chances are pretty good that you know someone who has been diagnosed with breast cancer. I read the following sentence on a post at BlogHer and found it staggering: Did you know that one in eight women in the US will be diagnosed with breast cancer in her lifetime and breast cancer is the leading [...]

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Intoxicating Iris At Argyle Acres

April 17, 2010

My Grandmommy’s irises were “Plain Jane.” In her garden, she had many of these lovely plants, but they were only in four colors: white, yellow, and two shades of purple. While I always admired them (and have some of each in my own gardens), I had no clue that I would ever fall in love [...]

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Sometimes The Good Is Tiny

April 16, 2010

Back in 2007, when my friend Marcia posted a photograph and told us to find “only the good” in it, I was skeptical. Marcia said: “The purpose of this exercise is to get people to look at the world in a different way, to acknowledge–if only for the brief time they do this exercise–that there [...]

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Ghost Tour Of Galveston

April 10, 2010

I waited in the wind in front of the Railroad Museum near The Strand. The website for Ghost Tours of Galveston had said that I should arrive fifteen minutes early, so I did. I’m the most punctual person you will ever meet. Not another living soul was there. The minutes ticked away, as I wondered [...]

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If I Could Tweet And Drive

April 9, 2010

Do y’all have a Twitter account? I do, but I don’t use it very often. As I motored my way down the Texas highways from Denton to Galveston, I was wishing that I was one of those “tweeters” who can chronicle the whole event. I’m amazed at what people will take the time to stop [...]

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A Wild Kid’s Festival in Galveston

April 8, 2010

A festival for children is always fun, but it’s doubly so when I get paid to attend it! That’s my “good” for this Only The Good Friday. Make me tell stories at a festival? As Br’er Rabbit would say, “Please, Br’er Fox, don’t throw me in that brier patch.” Ostensibly I’m heading to Galveston, Texas [...]

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Fleur-de-lis

April 7, 2010

Have you ever tried to look up the meaning of a certain flower on the internet? I searched for the iris, and found hundreds of meanings for this lovely blossom that is the inspiration for the symbol of France. The word “iris” is said to mean “rainbow,” which makes sense I guess when you see [...]

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A Bag Lady Again

April 6, 2010

Some projects are more exciting just to think about. That’s what I discovered when I decided to crochet a grocery bag out of plastic bags! It seemed like a delicious irony to use up all those plastic bags. I said I was going to do it … pronounced it in public … so I had [...]

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Dandelion Whine

April 5, 2010

Y’all know about my Muse, don’t you? The “inner child” who speaks to me and helps me write? She’s having a wall-eyed hissy fit right now because we have been slaving in the garden for days, and she is bored with the job. Here is the conversation that has been going on between us: I [...]

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Only The Good On Good Friday

April 1, 2010

It’s really “Good Friday!” And, it’s only the good Friday, as well. Fridays are always about “good” in my book as I battle my natural tendency to see a glass half empty. It’s hard to be a pessimist at holiday time … especially one with decorated eggs. I decided for today that it is time [...]

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