Category Archives: Domestic

Sleeping Warm Under a Handmade Quilt

Posted on May 5, 2013 by

We visited Boerne this week, just in time for Quiltfest on Hauptstrasse (Main Street.) Lots of lovely quilts on display along the street in downtown Old Boerne – and in the Town Plaza. Patchwork quilting is one of those peculiarly … Continue reading →

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The Picador’s Horse – a Memory of Spain

Posted on April 20, 2013 by

 During our last summers overseas, my daughter and I took to camping on our vacations, as the most economical way of traveling and seeing as much of the country as we could. A nice campground in Spain provided the convenience … Continue reading →

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My First Book

Posted on April 8, 2013 by

… is now revived in a Kindle edition. I didn’t republish it when I moved from Booklocker to Watercress Press, as it is very short, and composed mainly of blog entries that I wrote about my eccentric family for the … Continue reading →

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Log Cabin Days

Posted on February 16, 2013 by

Among the books in my tall stack to read to provide background for my books about the pioneering days in Texas was one with the very dry title of Texas Log Buildings; A Folk Architecture … which proved to be … Continue reading →

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For Valentine’s Day – True Love Lovers

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

So not being really a romance writer, and having pretty much washed out of the lists of matrimony personally, I still have managed to write about romance … mostly by pulling in a little bit of inspiration from here and … Continue reading →

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Kitchen Toys

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

A news story in an English tabloid rather amused me today, as it listed the top ten little used kitchen appliances which might (or might not) be in the average English kitchen. Being the owner of a house with a … Continue reading →

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The Perils of Modernity

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

So, sometime last Friday afternoon, my author email address was hacked and used to send out several different kinds of spam to simply everybody on my contacts list, for which I apologize abjectly. It’s some small comfort that a good … Continue reading →

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A Brief Memoir of Guns

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Oddly enough – guns were not a terribly real presence in the household – or even the neighborhood where I grew up. Dad, and our near friends and neighbors didn’t hunt, and as near as I can recall, none of … Continue reading →

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Art Appreciation

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

No, I can’t say I appreciate modern contemporary art all that much, even though I worked for a while in places that were stuffed full of it. Most of it leaves me … ummm, completely under-whelmed. Especially a three panel … Continue reading →

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Belief in Sandy Claws

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

I don’t think my next-youngest brother JP and I ever held a firm belief in Santa who lived at the North Pole with a workshop of elves, and went around on Christmas Eve with a bag of toys for the … Continue reading →

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