Lover’s Embrace

January 3, 2010

Sometimes I hear my Grandfather’s voice whispering stories inside my head. Yesterday, my husband and I took a walk and found two trees that had grown together. As we marveled at those trees, hugging like a pair of old lovers, Papaw’s slow East Texas drawl came through loud and clear. Pardon the length of it, [...]

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Texas Chainsaw Romance

May 29, 2007

When I first met the man who would become my Spousal Unit, I told him that I had a dilemma. I had taken down a fence at my house, but the garbage men wouldn’t carry it away unless it was cut up into teeny tiny pieces. I didn’t have any way of doing that, because [...]

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Serena of the River. A Texas Tale.

April 17, 2007

Imagine a bundle of energy packed in a 5’8″ frame, with a shock of almost orange hair, a face covered in freckles, and a laugh that starts as the sound of a chicken cackling over a newly laid egg and ends as a donkey’s bray. If you’ve got that in your mind, it’s the storyteller [...]

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White Noise

April 13, 2007

My husband is probably the funniest man I’ve ever met. He constantly plays on words or comes up with excruciating puns, and he always cracks up his audiences. My oldest son was visiting, and my husband made one of his wordplays (I don’t remember what it was now). Everyone laughed except my boy, who kept [...]

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