A Cautionary Tale about Assuming
My friend Nola is compiling a cookbook of third-generation recipes of Texas cooks, From Tea Cakes to Tamales, Third-Generation Texas Recipes; Texas A&M University Press. I contributed two recipes, my Grandmother Drum’s tea cookies and my Grandmother Graves’ green...
Bill and Alice’s Big Adventure-The Liberty Bowl
The Aggies made it to the Liberty Bowl, and we decided we needed to go. So two days after Christmas we set out for Memphis. We spent the night in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, where Bill spent his teenage years and where his dad and his wife Lucille are buried in the Ft. Smith...
Two Christmas Stories-The Liles Extravaganza, and 50 for No. 50
Everyone came to our house this year for Christmas. We had a houseful, and that’s the best part. AJ and Erin even brought their aging dog, Harper, so we had three dogs, one house cat that checked every gift box, and one cat that darted in every time the door was open...
Billy Ray Cyrus is an Icon? Really?
I came across a note I had made to myself awhile back about an MSN home page bit about what had happened to some musical pop culture icons from a few years back. Okay, so I should have addressed the issue then, but I didn’t for some reason. But I have to do it now...
Trip to the Christmas Tree Farm
Thanksgiving at Kyle was no stress this year; Erin and AJ did all the planning and cooking. All we had to do was eat and watch football. What a deal! We also took in the newest Hunger Games installment, Mockingjay, Part 1. Friday, however, was a big day for one of...
One More Rite of Passage Into Old Age
So. Both eyes are free of cataracts now. What can I say? Well, for one thing, thank you, God, for doctors who figured out the surgery in the first place that allows me to keep my sight. I have always heard that the question is not if you get cataracts, but when you...
Channeling Roger Ebert: Interstellar
I had three hours to kill one evening on my last trip to the lake last week and decided to take in the newly released movie Interstellar. If you like psychological sci-fi on a grand scale minus any creature costumes, you will probably like this movie. Who am I...
Curtis Shelburne Entertains at the Muleshoe Heritage Foundation Annual Meeting.
The turnout was light at the recent Muleshoe Heritage Foundation Annual meeting, which is a shame, because those who bothered to come were treated to a mini-concert by Curtis Shelburne. Refreshments were plentiful and delicious; the music was a pleasure. Curtis shared...
Honey, Anyone?
When Bill received notice that the San Antonio office of the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service was putting on their bee workshop again this year, like the one he attended last year (“The Bee Keeper Moves the Swarm,” July 27, 2014), and asked me if I would like...
The Tradition Continues-Korben Begins Football
We watched our son AJ play many a football game. We followed grandson Colten’s football career all the way from 7th grade to graduation; this year Korben, Caroline’s 12 year-old son and one of our new grandsons by way of husband Neil, took to the field in Texico, New...
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