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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Dancing Around In Cypress

November 23, 2009

An intrepid reporter would have let nothing stand in her way in her quest for a story to give you about Cypress, Texas when she visited. Driving in rush hour traffic to find a location would not have shaken her steely resolve. In cold and rainy weather, she still would have taken her trusty camera [...]

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Juan Sebastián Elcano

May 19, 2009

It’s natural that in school my favorite subject was History — after all, you can’t have “history” without “story.” While I didn’t enjoy learning dates (for that smacked of my most detested subject: math), I enjoyed reading about the early explorers who “discovered” this continent. Recently I learned the name of one Spanish explorer who [...]

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My Galveston Weekend.

April 7, 2008

As I headed across Texas last Friday to tell stories at a festival in Galveston, I didn’t think it was going to be a wonderful adventure! It was raining and the weather was icky (that’s a bona fide meteorological term). It turned out to be a pretty enjoyable trip! I took a lot of pictures, [...]

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