From First Word to Last – Eighty Years Ago Today

As I turned a yellowed newspaper page, immediately the words “Brutal Murders” caught my eye and were emblazoned across a top headline of the Lubbock Morning Avalanche-Journal on October 27, 1943. It was like I froze in time. Then the photo below the headline of two little girls grabbed my attention immediately and became engrained…

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From Photograph to a Publishing Contract

In July 2023, as I went through old photos deleting them off my phone, this photo appeared. My heart skipped a beat followed by a calm of peace. I remember the day I took this picture on June 30, 2022. It plays out like a vivid movie in my head from the frustration I was…

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Yep, My Momma Is Still At It – Woof, Woof

Yep, yep. Yes, yes. Woof, woof. However, you want me to say it. Here’s an update from me, Azrael.   You see this picture here of me laying on the couch. You think I am sound asleep but I am pretending. My big ears are actually tuned in to mom and her voice. Her voice?…

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