Good Luck Or Bad Luck? Only The Good Friday.

January 23, 2009

When I was preparing dinner for a party a few weeks ago, I noticed that my oven was acting “wonky.” It was making a strange noise, and there was an odd smell. The smell was not the food I was cooking. On closer examination, we noticed that the heating element was bent — at one [...]

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Good Luck or Good People?

January 30, 2007

I’m headed to Beaumont, Texas this week to tell some stories in the schools. I was supposed to go there earlier this month, but our mini-blizzard came through and postponed it; once a hurricane did so, too. Usually it just rains when I go there. My husband said “usually” means “always.” My mother thought it [...]

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Saving Bucks on an Elk Skin Jacket

January 17, 2007

A few posts back, I talked about the vintage clothing store in Denton, Texas called Circa 77. We always find something without which we cannot live (That sentence seems stilted, but I had a high school English teacher who got furious if I put a preposition at the end of the sentence. It was something [...]

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