City Girl

East Tawakoni held their first Arts & Crafts Expo on Saturday, and I was one of about 15 vendors. Since there were no assigned spaces, I planned to get there well before the 9:00 a.m. opening to get a prime spot. […]

Mother’s Day weekend was extra special to me this year. Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the day I first felt my baby move. I was four months pregnant and had been waiting for that faint butterfly feeling I had heard other expectant mothers describe. […]

Mother’s Day is this coming Sunday, and as I thought about what to write, I wanted to write a tribute to my mother. I’ve already written a lot about her – she’s the main topic of both my Alzheimer’s caregiving memoirs. […]

Several years ago David and I watched a documentary that projected, in the event humans went extinct, how long it would take nature to reclaim the earth. It seemed fanciful to watch computer animations of trees breaking through major highways and vines creeping up and over crumbling infrastructure and collapsed skyscrapers in a century or two. […]

Being President of the Friends of the Library (FOL) has been a learning experience, and I’m still learning even though I’m almost half-way through my three-year term. […]

Christmas around the Square is usually a major event in Rains County featuring food, live entertainment, a Santa parade and vendors – where else – around the courthouse square. […]

Naps are not a normal part of my routine, but I made an exception Sunday afternoon. In my defense, it had been a hectic week. Keeping in mind that hectic has a different meaning to retired people than to those still in the work force. […]

Holy Week began last Sunday and ends this coming Sunday on Easter. But before we can get to Resurrection Sunday, we have to go through Good Friday. […]

One of the responsibilities of the President of the Friends of the Library (FOL) is to submit a Year in Review report to commissioners’ court. […]

Three weeks ago, this column was about the effects of a week of ice and snow, but this one is about life after Snowpocalypse 2021. After all the snow and ice melted, there was a lot of landscape sadness to be seen. […]