Enter To Win $100 Visa Card With Just A Comment

June 7, 2010

What I won’t do to get y’all to talk to me. Now, I’ve got a good reason for you: I get to give one of you a Visa gift card worth $100! Yes, I do … and it’s courtesy of Crystal Light. All you have to do to enter the drawing is leave a comment. [...]

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I Am Aflame For My Kindle

December 16, 2009

When Oprah did a show back in the fall of 2008 featuring the Kindle, an electronic reading device, I was curious enough to go on-line and check the price. Now, I’m here to tell you that I do not do everything that Oprah Winfrey tells me to do. In fact, I try to resist following [...]

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Mahalo for Sweet Hawaiian Mini Burgers

June 10, 2009

It should have been simple, I mean I picked the least demanding of the five recipes offered to me to cook for the Texas Beef Council as part of their Grilling Experience. Y’all know I like easy, but most of the recipes sounded a bit frou frou for this Texas gal. However, they might be [...]

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Peggy Sue BBQ in Dallas

April 25, 2009

Peggy Sue has a nice rack. Of RIBS — what were you thinking? I didn’t even see “Peggy Sue.” We decided to chow down on some barbecue last weekend, and Peggy Sue BBQ was highly recommended, after all The Dallas Observer listed them as The Best Barbecue in 2008. It sounded promising, so I got [...]

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Can You Guess?

March 4, 2009

“It” came to me in the mail packaged in this bag inside the box. It was something I wanted badly, and it came just in time for my birthday. I mean to tell you, it is THE most beautiful of its kind that I have ever owned. Do you want to know what it is? [...]

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Giving Eudora Welty A Second Chance

February 26, 2009

When you were in High School, did you enjoy the reading that you did for your English classes? I find it strange that I consume reading matter like a starving man devours bread (not missing a single crumb) until you tell me I HAVE to read it. If you want me to analyze it, then [...]

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Celtic Thunder — Men In Kilts!

November 22, 2008

At last, I got to go to my long awaited Celtic Thunder concert! Sigh! I got to hear the golden voices of those handsome men in kilts (sorry, Honey, yes I was looking!). What a treat it was, too. I must admit that I was most looking forward to hearing Damien McGinty singing “Puppy Love.” [...]

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City of Ember Sparks The Imagination

October 22, 2008

Y’all I get embarrassed sometimes when I sit with a group of women and they talk about the books they are reading. My naturally garrulous nature becomes subdued, and that always draws attention. Invariably they ask me what I have been reading, and I have to admit that mostly I read old folktales, “juvenile” fiction, [...]

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The Thunder Rolls — Celtic Thunder!

September 15, 2008

[Editor's note: YOU can win tickets to a Celtic Thunder Concert! Come and enter here.] [Editor's other note: Oops! The contest is over.] I was too lazy to reach for the remote control to change channels, but I figured that since I was watching the PBS channel something good might come on the screen. For [...]

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Is She Really Bleeding Espresso?

August 11, 2008

I have a delightful friend that I want you to meet. I think you’d really like her. When I first started reading Bleeding Espresso, Michelle Fabio called herself “Sognatrice.” She has since decided to ‘fess up and tell folks her real name (you really can’t hide on the WWW, can you?). Michelle is an ex-patriated [...]

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Getting Lost In The Story, With Audiobooks

July 24, 2008

I’m not a very “trendy” person, especially when it concerns these new-fangled electronic thingies. I don’t own an iPod. I don’t lust for an iPhone. About the time I got interested in using my VCR to play movies, DVDs became popular. In fact, I only began using my computer in earnest a few years ago. [...]

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Bulldog “Ghost Tours” Bite!

July 22, 2008

Come explore The Holy City’s streets, cemeteries, back alleyways, churches, and join our experienced and fully-licensed tour guides on a 1 1/2 hour walking tour through the dark edges of Charleston’s Haunted Historic District. You’ll hear fun and chilling stories of Charleston ghosts, haunted houses, voodoo, and Lowcountry superstitions. This is the only Charleston SC [...]

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“Miracle” Headache Cure

February 2, 2008

My head was pounding. My whole body pulsed with it. I felt as if a drummer were playing that fabulous drumbeat from the instrumental “Sing, Sing, Sing.” In fact, the whole band was in my head! Do you know the song? If not, play the video to get an idea of what was going on [...]

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Faux The Love Of Bacon

November 24, 2007

My sister sooo lied to me. I knew she was capable of doing so from past experience (we go back a long way). However, I had hoped that in her age she would stop prevaricating. It was a vain hope. You would think that after fifty-some-odd years I would have the good sense not to [...]

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Heavenly Burgers

November 3, 2007

You probably would never stop at this little burger shack down by the railroad track. In the first place, you wouldn’t know where to find it, because it’s not in a nicer part of town. It’s not an “upscale” eatery, and face it, it doesn’t look like much. It’s called RJ’s Old Fashion Homemade Burgers. [...]

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An Evening With The Bored, er I mean Bard

June 16, 2007

Last night was the evening for us Tuckers to have ourselves a little bit of culture. Imagine holding up the pinkie on your hand as you drink a bottle of Bud Lite. That’s about as cultured as it usually gets around here. But, last evening was the opening night of the production of Romeo and [...]

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