March 2011

A Folktale for Those With Closed Eyes and Flapping Mouths

March 31, 2011

I’ve never met the parents who are objecting to the ghost story I told their children … the story that none of them heard. However, in my mind’s eye, I imagine that they have no noses. They cut them off to spite their faces. You see, that small (but very vocal) group of parents have [...]

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Ghost Hunt In Nacogdoches

March 29, 2011

None of the parents actually heard the story I told to the 4th grade. Yet, for a week I have been vilified. Their objection was not, as far as I can tell, that it was a ghost story, but that it mentions that “man had killed his wife, and then killed himself.” Hey, if there [...]

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My New Favorite Restaurant

March 19, 2011

When I was growing up, in Grapevine, we didn’t have a “delicatessen.” If we wanted food in a hurry, we went to the Royal Dairy, which was our version of the Dairy Queen. That’s about as “fine” as food got for us. I know, I know … it’s a sad story. Even as a grownup, [...]

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I Get By With The Help Of My Friends

March 18, 2011

Y’all, I’ve been hiding from the computer for months now, as I worked on that Share A Square project. I have to avoid the computer, because when I plop down in this chair, I get mesmerized by the screen. I don’t get a darned thing done all day… and I have a lot of things [...]

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Window Shopping in Uptown

March 2, 2011

We had an interesting window shopping excursion in the uppity part of Dallas last weekend. It was only because I got a last minute call from my friend Len Barnett, whose group (Percussion Things) was performing at Bookmarks. Because it’s a library, they wanted a storyteller to tell tales as they drummed. I’m well aware [...]

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Incentive

March 1, 2011

Did y’all ever hear folks talk about dangling a carrot on a stick in front of a donkey to get it to move forward? A carrot might be incentive for a donkey … but not for me! Coffee might work as incentive, especially if it’s a mocha from Jupiter House (my favorite Denton hangout). But, [...]

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