It finally feels like fall around here. The temperature is perfect, the trees are losing their leaves and Christmas is right around the corner. Did I just say Christmas? Yikes! That means I need to get busy. I’m usually pretty good about buying gifts early. I hate the crowds and all around business of the [...]
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Until I got married, I spent every Thanksgiving with my family except the year I was in Texas, when a combination of my job and my budget forced me to stay in Grand Prairie. The next spring, I moved to South Dakota. I had been dating my future husband for three months when our first [...]
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Yay! We have Joanna Wayne today. Answering questions about cowboys and writing. Two of my fav topics! Joanna is a chaptermate who I hardly ever get to visit with – life keeps her busy in Houston. But I did get to catch up with her last month at a chapter retreat in lovely, historic Natchitoches. [...]
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Venturing out to my chapter’s Fall Retreat, I had no idea I’d be bringing back a book about a Navy SEAL turned cowboy. But, boy, am I glad I did! Louisiana born, Texas proven Joanna Wayne packs a wallop of a story about the military cowboy in her book Cowboy to the Core. And this [...]
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I went to buy all the things I needed to make my dish for my family’s get-together for Thanksgiving. My grandparents wanted to do most of the cooking, but I offered to help them anyway. I am bringing something. I never really thought I knew how to cook anything until I moved out on my [...]
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We are coming up to the final days of NaNoWriMo and I’m so happy with my progress. It has not been easy to keep up with all that life has thrown at me this month. But knowing that I can work my writing in and still keep the house running smoothly is the best gift [...]
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I have always been fasinated with the Native Americans. I would go to spend the night with my grandparents as a child, and my grandpa ALWAYS had it on the Western channel. I never watched the shows unless I knew they had Indians in them. I was amazed at some of the things I could learn about [...]
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It’s Western Week! Leave a comment on the blog for your chance to win a free book! I grew up fascinated with cowboys, but not cowboys in the sense of George Straight or John Wayne. Oh, no, mine were of a different breed entirely. They were what I’ll call Redneck Cowboys. They’d wear the Wranglers. [...]
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Western Week! Leave a comment on the blog for your chance to win a free book I didn’t grow up in a promising environment for cowboys. Hawaii is good for a lot of things, but the open range isn’t one of them. I spent my childhood on the island of Oahu, where you go 90 [...]
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Western Week! Leave a comment on the blog for your chance to win a free book Well, not really. I’ve had some earls and some city-slickers. But I do like to think they all have a piece of cowboy in them. An earnestness, a steel-tinged strength of character, some gruff tenderness and a willingness to [...]
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