December 2012 Honolulu

This year I came to Hawaii to be with my mother for Christmas. No…I’m not jumping out of a plane. I just don’t feel like jumping out of perfectly good airplanes. 

I really wanted to have some extra bonding time with my mother, so whi… Read full post »

Hello … to whoever is reading this. I hope you’re having a great day.

This is my update. I have finished self-editing 26 manuscripts and I am now typing one of my first stories so that it’s on the computer.

I have four manuscripts in boxes on typing paper… Read full post »

About 2 weeks ago my mother did something she has always wanted to do. This shot was taken at about 8000 feet over the northshore of Oahu. As you can see she's in 7th heaven. She didn't tell me about this "Idea" until she was on the ground.

Of course… Read full post »

I must tell you that it takes time to reform your mind. No matter how positive you think you are that little negative thought will pop into your head and if you aren’t careful it runs amuck through your brain trying to take over.

If you believe in something… Read full post »

    My mother…God bless her heart. She volunteers two days a week at a Thrift Shop, she  helps when the holidays roll around to decorate the church, she visits friends who can’t get out for one reason or another. She gives purpose to lives that might have lost what pu… Read full post »

Texas Cactus Flower 4/26/2012--Absolutely Beautiful

I think that spring is my favorite time of year. It’s becoming warmer, natures spring flowers grow from the warmth of the sun and bloom like crazy. There’s no place you drive that you don’t see flowers…it’s wonderful.

Then there are the trees, God bles… Read full post »

 I wanted to take a moment to share one of many memories from my mother that she told me on the phone a few minutes ago as she reflected and laughed about her Grandma.

Grandma knew when we were coming for a visit.

My four sisters and I would… Read full post »

If anything in this particular blog offends someone…I’m sorry. Yet this is my blog and it’s about me, my thoughts, my feelings, my ideas etc.

I actually don’t like offending people because I don’t like being offended, so if I step on your toes…stop reading.

The… Read full post »

Sometimes we do way too much during the holidays, but we have so much fun wearing ourselves out. It sometimes takes us the entire month of January to recover.

Well, it didn’t take me a month, but there have been times I think it would last that long. It’s all… Read full post »

Merry Christmas to Everyone. May God Bless you. Read full post »

My Non-Christmas Message.

It has recently come to my attention people don’t always play fair. By this I mean that there are a few really big A.H.’s out there who don’t care who they hurt, steal from or damage reputation by taking what is private and not there’s to begin… Read full post »

Christmas … it’s a great time of year. Yet what seems to slip by us is the real reason for the holiday.

We rush from store to store buying gifts for our family, for friends and for co-workers. The stores begin to set up Christmas trees, decorate everything that… Read full post »

Christmas is upon us!

You pick out the perfect tree, take it home and slid it into a stand and add warm water. You, full of determination, wait 12 to 24 hours for the branches to fall into place….in other words you let it… Read full post »

I don't know about you, but everyone in this house ate tooooo much, but it was sooooo gooooood.

My wish is that everyone that reads this---I hope you had a great and filling holiday.

NOW----Christmas is ahead of us!!! Oh my God...in more ways than one.

I wish everyone a great holiday.

My mother arrived. I only wanted to tell you that I'm very happy. I love having her with us.

This is a short entry as we are very busy. I'm taking her out to the hill country west of Austin today. She wants to see some beautiful homes and more of… Read full post »

I think I've just about done myself in getting ready for this visit. Don't get me wrong, the work had to be done at some point, but I am trying to do it all in three or four days. the incident with raising the porch scared me, and it took the… Read full post »

I don't know how many of you try to take on "Handyman Work" but it is sometimes best left to the professionals.

Ten years ago I built a deck and because I'm fair-skinned a roof had to be added. I have never built anything before and I took on this job… Read full post »

She's almost here! Yes, I believe I do become excited when I know I'm going to see her. I'm over 4000 miles away and there's an ocean between us besides all the central and west coast land.

When I moved to Texas I knew it would be long periods of… Read full post »

Hey There!  Yes I posted my tags correctly for the job I am doing.

To those of you who live in an apartment---I salute you. No yard work for you!!! Wow!

My mother, whom I love dearly and her sister, my Aunt from Florida are coming to see us. I am honestly… Read full post »

It's absolutely amazing!!

I have all of these books (stories) that I've written and re-written and now I'm in the process of the last edit. As you know that means reading every single word carefully---and I say carefully because when you write a book you know what's there, your brain and eyes… Read full post »

Writing and re-writing, that's the name of the game and time is difficult to come by all of the "time".

I'm still editing this book and although I'm not finished I've increased the page count by 100 and I still have 120 pages to go. It's really interesting to read something… Read full post »

Brief Note on Fires: They're out in Cedar Creek and nearly out in Bastrop. It's taking time to kill all of the smoldering trees, they burn long, like charcoal. People are going back to their homes, unless they lost them to this horrible fire. It's so sad. I know a few… Read full post »

Everybody!!!!!, let's do this (and NBC, this one's for you!) We should flood Salon and Facebook with this.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under G O D, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice… Read full post »