tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80554452722735002332008-07-26T00:19:33.415-04:00Mary Marvellahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12015719890476028848noreply@blogger.comBlogger457125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8055445272273500233.post-14601051094721334622008-07-25T09:17:00.003-04:002008-07-25T09:36:01.130-04:00

Sunday dawned chill and clear, and I won't bore you with how lost I got by following stranger's directions instead of listening to my GPS. Tom-Tom and I have trust issues that we must resolve in counseling. Suffice to say, I visited Greenville, Tennessee twice in one day and from different routes. By noon, it was HOT. I had the top back and my temper was a little frayed by the time I reached

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At the beginning of May, I took a Road Trip. It is capitalized because I drove over 2,000 miles. The impetus for this Magnificent Journey was a car. Not just any car but the one I'd been searching for a long time. I ran a wild-card, shotgun blast search on Google and the 2002 Sterling Gray, 3.0i, manual transmission, Z3 popped up in Pennsylvania. I live in Houston. After a month of numerous

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Hey, our blog is almost a year old. YAY!!!!!! Some of our original bloggers have moved on to other things. We wish them the best. We've added new members, some within this week. How cool is that? Can you tell us the first blog date? No fair giving it away too quickly, Sherry or Beth or Pam. Would you like to see a repeat of some of the original posts before or after our birthday? If you

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Please welcome Melanie Atkins, a writer who is going places! Melanie answered all my questions but the one about boxers or briefs. She prefers her men in.... Melanie, what was your first published book and by whom? HAUNTED MEMORIES, in both e-book (2004) and print (2005) by a former publisher I’d rather not name. This book has since been re-edited and lengthened and is about to be

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Check back tomorrow to meet Melanie Atkins who can teach us a thing or two about persistence. In August we'll welcome more authors, including Jane Porter, Haywood Smith, and Cynthia D'Alba who will talk about ghosts!

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Well my first book signing was last Saturday, at the World Erotic Art Museum. A very interesting place indeed. I saw some of the most tasteful paintings I have ever seen. Some of the them, the faces just told you a story, of desperate adoration to complete boredom. I saw statues of erotic nature from as far back as 500 BC. Even then sex was depicted in many ways. Some beautiful, some of which I'd

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It (action) is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. Oscar Wilde For all the dreamers out there whose dreams are action. This photo was taken on a curvy road by a gurgling stream in Tennessee on my Z3PO road trip. Blogging about that next Thursday and Friday.

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From my nonfiction collection, Shenandoah Watercolors. The Alleghenies are shrouded in mist this morning and the colors muted. Columbine blooms outside my kitchen window, a mass of pink bells. I’ve planted all kinds of columbine because it’s one of my absolute favorites. I have the red-yellow woods variety too and the blue one from Colorado. The roses beside the old, red barn are so

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There's a Shadow waiting at Home for me Warm and soft and watchful, And I never appreciate him more Than when it's raining and it's cold while The wind blows sheet-water in icy blasts. As I slam the car door and dash up the drive,

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A really bad day for someone.

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Please welcome fabulous author Carmen Green. I've known Carmen forever. She has graciously agreed to be our guest today. What was your first published book and to whom? Now or Never –Kensington Publishing Corp 1995 What themes go through your books? I’m most known for the Crawford Family. I enjoy writing about families because I come from a big family and they’re very involved in my life. I

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Due to technical difficulties, Carmen Green will be with us tomorrow, instead of today.

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Since many of us enjoy animal stories, I'm sharing this one, with the permission of the cat owner. There is such a thing as too much excitement for one night. ~~~~~~~ The Night All Hall Broke Loose at My House The cat was sleeping in the dog's crate with the door open. She stretched her back legs and one went through the bars of the crate. She managed to weave it through 4 of the bars. When

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It was a song by Bing Crosby, and I danced to it when I was 12. I became a ballerina at the age of five. My dancing career ended at the age of 28 when the Toyota Corolla in which I was a passenger was broadsided by a Ford Fairlane. (One can't dance very well with a hip which has been shattered like an ice cube smashed by a hammer.) In between those years, however, I had a long and

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nec scire fas est omnia We are not allowed to know all things. ---- Unknown

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Carmen Green will be here on Tuesday as a guest blogger. Come and ask questions or just say hello. Counting the hours!

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A teacher friend of mine wanted to share this advice with our readers. She works with kids with learning problems, so she knows whereof she speaks. Johnny Can’t Read Having a child with a learning disability can be a heartbreaking thing. Often our children are so adept at hiding their difficulties behind disruptive behavior that we don’t realize

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Somewhat involuntarily, the Midwest became the area of choice for immigrants from middle Europe and Scandinavia, since by 1867, the Eastern Seaboard had become filled with the English, Scots, and Irish. Many would find it an ugly place, an interminable plain broken by the creeks and streams of the Platte River, the single waterway that traversed its length. Others would see beauty in the

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Well ladies, if this post reaches the blog, I am in business. I can tell you all about how when the phone rings, Junior, (who has a very big voice), starts to bark. Now I have no idea why. It's really funny because he starts just before the phone rings. I could tell you how I have finally trained my canary,(known for not being finger friendly), to hop onto my finger. Now it helps that he falls

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Recently, I was blackballed from a women's organization in which I had been a member for 46 years. No reason was given for this decision and I was at a loss to determine why; indeed, now the other members won't even speak to me. Had I inadvertently stepped on someone's toes, insulted another member's mother, husband, child...pet aardvark? Never one to deliberately make waves, I am still at a

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Part 1 of this battle appeared yesterday. June’s second email to her daughter. Part 2 Better change your bet,….He has eaten two or three meals with carrots mashed into them. I’m getting smarter and he can not separate the carrots from the chick-chick. (chicken and rice) Plus, I decided to fix the Little Shit and I mashed in some green peas. So the battle is 3 -3, but knowing him as I do,

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June Kinion is a South Carolina girl who moved to Georgia and has stayed. This transplant has a law degree and has sold millions of dollars of real estate and raised three children and a grandchild. Her humor speaks of her country raisin’ and her zest for life. June has a beautiful rescue dog named Lou. Lou has a lot of lab in him and some bulldog from parents who got around. When June’s

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http://www.lindanightingale.com/ Designed and produced by my son Simon. I'm so proud of him and the site. Please drop by and take a look. On the Enter page there is a flash animation which takes a second to load but hang around and see the cool pix. There is a continuing vampire story on the site. The links are at the top on the bar as you scroll across.Thanks, Linda & Simon

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I was supposed to post about my road trip to buy Z3PO (my new car) but since I'm at work and I forgot my flash drive...I thought everyone might enjoy these cute kitties!

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Like a lot of kids, when I was small, I was horse-crazy. From the ages of seven through twelve, I collected the "Horses of Destiny" series, The Black Stallion series by Walter Farley, anything by Marguerite Henry, and any other horse story I could lay my hot little hands on. I kept spiral notebooks of drawings of horses, with their names and fictitious pedigrees. I knew the breeds, their

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