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2 min read 2022-08-10 12:02:35

Going To Be Busy

I remember my sister complaining once when we were kids that she was bored, and our mother handed her a rag and a can of Pledge and told her to go

2 min read 2022-08-09 12:03:35

When we hear about violent crime, we always tend to think it’s something that happens somewhere else, not where we are. It can happen anytime,

3 min read 2022-08-08 11:46:22

I like to think of myself as a charming little cherub with a great sense of humor and lots of fun to hang out with. But let’s be honest, I can be a

3 min read 2022-08-07 11:07:24

Well, I missed my goal of finishing Pucker Factor, my next John Lee Quarrels book, by the end of July. There was just too much going on. But I’m

3 min read 2022-08-06 11:25:29

I spent so many hours making corrections to chapters I narrated in my new John Lee Quarrels book the last two days that my eyes hurt. But I got most

3 min read 2022-08-05 11:46:46

Lately, several people have contacted us to say that they are getting the blog a day late. At the same time, many other readers are not having any

3 min read 2022-08-04 11:58:04

Terry and I had our regular periodic checkups with our primary care doctor yesterday afternoon, and after going over all of our charts and the

3 min read 2022-08-03 12:02:47

As I said in yesterday’s blog, Terry had an appointment for a hearing test to see if anything could be done about her annoying tinnitus, which

3 min read 2022-08-02 11:23:27

That’s what it sounded like around our place yesterday, and no, I wasn’t eating Rice Krispies. Our neighbor Jennifer from across the street came

3 min read 2022-08-01 11:35:48

Well, I didn’t make my goal of finishing my new John Lee Quarrels book by the end of July. I’ve got about two chapters to go yet, maybe three at

3 min read 2022-07-31 11:54:29

I said in yesterday’s blog that I had written 9,000 words and if I could do the same thing for the next day or two, I would finish my new John Lee

3 min read 2022-07-30 12:16:59

Did you ever have one of those mornings when you get startled awake and your mind is fuzzy and you are fumble-fingered and it takes you a minute to

5 min read 2022-07-29 12:11:44

A week or so ago, I mentioned that Terry’s eye doctor said it’s about time to consider cataract surgery for her. We knew it was coming, and

3 min read 2022-07-28 11:43:38

I had my RF nerve ablations done on June 13th and 20th. They were outpatient procedures, and a couple of weeks after the second one I had a follow-up

3 min read 2022-07-27 11:05:00

He was considered to be one of the greatest heroes of the Confederacy, and when he was killed in 1863, it was a huge loss to the rebel cause. Even