In honor of this week’s Valentine’s Celebration, my Top Five Tuesday returns to music and, more specifically, to rock’s love songs. Ever since the Beatles sang “I Want To Hold Your Hand” rock music and romantic love have been closely connected. They weren’t always friendly, mind you. Who could forget they cynicism of Love Stinks? Read the full article…
As I posted on Friday, I spent the first part of the weekend in Austin, Texas where my 97-year-old mother Betty Davis presented the first-ever Betty X. Davis Award For Young Writers Of Merit.The gala was all part of a writer’s conference hosted by the Austin Chapter of the Society Of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators. But Read the full article…
In Austin, Texas. That’s where I’ll be. In fact, as you read this, that’s where I am. I’m down here to attend an awards ceremony in which three young writers from Central Texas will be recognized with the Betty X. Davis Award For Young Writers Of Merit. My mother is not the young writer. She’s Read the full article…
Just ten days ago, the people of Good Shepherd gave a remarkable $389,571 towards the purchase and remodeling of a Home for girls who are themselves under renovation — rescued from domestic sex trafficking and headed towards healing with On Eagles’ Wings Ministries. And so yesterday, we bought the home — an unoccupied structure at an Read the full article…
Have you noticed . . . . That the same injury which ended Mark McGwire’s career, patella tendinitis, is threatening Rafael Nadal’s?That when you spend a little more for items of higher quality you spend less in the long run because they last longer?That the man recently convicted in Charlotte of murdering a pregnant woman Read the full article…
