Consider the Forgotten Phone Book
I needed a phone number for a business in Kingsland the other day, so I picked up the Picayune Area-Wide Phone Book we had brought home with us from the lake, went to the yellow pages under Satellite systems, and Boom, there it was, a listing for the business I...
The Greenest Green
Took a little trip to the Hill Country last week. Spring hits earlier there than here, and the usual photo op involves scores of wildflowers. Blue bonnets were in attendance, but it was the fifty shades of green that had me making predictably unsafe stops along the...
Yes, We Have Snow!
Weather reports are saying we were blessed with five inches. Drifts are even deeper. and flurries are still coming and going. Mari and Porche were suffering from severe cabin fever, so I had no choice but to bundle up and brave the cold, camera in hand. Or stuffed...
Kingsman; The Secret Service = James Bond on Steroids
I treated myself to a movie the other night and decided on Kingsman; The Secret Service, and I have to admit, was thoroughly entertained despite the f-word being thrown about with wild abandon and stylized brawling and killing the order of the day. But the f-word got...
The Grammys Meet The Emperor’s New Clothes
I can’t remember the last time I watched the Grammys. When rap took over, and even before that, really, I lost interest in music that sounded less and less like actual music, the performers didn’t dress for the occasion, and the choreography consisted of grabbing a...
American Sniper-My Turn
Since American Sniper is making money hand over fist, generating much comment, and giving the talking heads fodder for arguing their political views, we went to see what all the brouhaha is about. I am not rich or famous, so my opinion won’t show up on MSN or make the...
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...
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