The Trouble With Spring

It’s beautiful outside. It has been beautiful for a week or more. My thoughts keep turning to digging in the dirt… Planting things that are beautiful, things that taste good, things that attract

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It’s Another Monday Morning Muse

So, we sprang forward again yesterday. And here we are with what much of the country would consider  a summertime forecast. It’s already 62° out and the sun isn’t up yet.

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My Morning Muse

Spring Sitting here with my first cup of coffee, looking out my office window, my morning muse turns to the predominance of spring green. Even the scar left with the demolition of

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Happy Texas Independence Day

Why we celebrate Texas Independence Day I grew up here in Texas. I have never thought much about the why’s of Texas Independence Day. I was surrounded by the Texas myth

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February Mid-Winter Coffee Muse

I was sitting out on the backporch this afternoon having my last cup of coffee  for the day. I had walked out to let my eyes enjoy focusing on something further away

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Do You Piddle?

I was scanning through this months Southern Living yesterday and happened to read Rick Bragg‘s Southern Journal on the last page…I was captured with the first two paragraphs… Now, I

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