Our Easter Cross
I know Easter is almost over, but I wanted to share how our Methodist church celebrated Easter today. Besides having Easter lilies and these calla lilies in the sanctuary, we also had a cross decorated with flowers. It started out like this, or almost like...
Tales From School–The Wild Thing Revisited
Driving home from Lubbock the other day I had to smile when Tone Loc sang about doin’ the wild thing on the radio because it took me back to the classroom and the first time I heard that song. I thought I’d share that story-and then I had a vague feeling I had already...
More History Comes to the Janes Ranch House
Dr. William Wallace, who inherited and owned the Janes Ranch House that we lived in briefly when we moved to Muleshoe, and which was moved into and became the centerpiece of the Muleshoe Heritage Foundation’s historic collection of structures, died last year. This...
Eddie the Eagle
Movies that make the money these days seem to be the darkest, dystopian, gloom and doom, comic book hero nightmares Hollywood can think up. Or, they are heavy on the message, fraught with serious acting, or had a bazillion dollars spent on special effects and state of...
The Quintessential Peanut Butter Sandwich
Back when I went to college, everyone was required to take a speech class as a freshman. Not a bad idea, but that’s another story. Anyway, I was having trouble getting into a topic for my final speech, which needed to be Oscar-worthy, and out of frustration I decided...
Meet Miss Siam
After we lost Sophie, Poopie, and the Peaches within five months of each other, it was as if we were being punished. All good cats do go to heaven, I am just sure, so I guess there were some positions to fill up there. But it hurt. We didn’t look for replacements...
A Bird’s Eye View
When I served as president of the Muleshoe Classroom Teachers Association, way back last century, I used to keep members informed and up to date with a monthly newsletter. Besides TCTA (Texas Classroom Teachers Association) news and local information, I always seem to...
The Revenant
Oscar time is upon us again, The Revenant being one of the front-runners this year. AJ and I went to see it the other day on $5 movie night, and I am really glad it only cost us $5! To begin with, the whole movie was cold and gray. And white. Snow everywhere. And the...
Ingrid’s Hand Woven Rugs, Inc. is a Trip Back In Time
Founded in 1879 and named for the Indian pictographs painted on the cliffs overlooking the nearby Concho River, Paint Rock, Texas, is the county seat of Concho County; pretty obvious when the courthouse stands grand and solemn on US highway 83 as you drive into town....
Good-bye to Peaches; 2004-2016
My posse is grieving the loss of our smallest member. Peaches died in my arms Saturday morning. Peaches was the most head-strong, independent, fearless little cat you would ever want to meet. From the day she showed up in the yard and announced herself to Bill and his...
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