All Writers Need a Support System

  All writers need a support system. Most of us have great friends to sound off our book ideas to or help with read-throughs of our books. Paws down most writers would agree it’s our dogs or cats that silently support us with unfaltering love and encouragement. I’ve been blessed with having Azrael by my…

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Tiny Murder House

  “Dang, that’s a tiny house!” Those were the first words a friend said a few weeks ago when we drove by the former Hunt home in Littlefield, Texas. We were driving north to see Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Hereford, Texas and she wanted to see the house. “Dang, that’s a tiny house!”…

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Silence of a Juniper Tree

You miss moments like this if you never look up along a hiking trail. Photo captured at Guadalupe Mountains National Park on the Smith Spring Trail. Image available for purchase: https://www.etsy.com/listing/490010654/silence-of-a-juniper-tree-nature-photo  Photograph – © Christena Stephens Photography  

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Housing of Early Prisoners in Lamb County, Texas

During my research on the Hunt book, I discovered this odd fragment of history regarding how prisoners were housed in Lamb County, Texas during the county’s early years. From 1908 to 1946 the Lamb County Courthouse and the county seat was in Olton. The first nine-room courthouse built in 1908 burned down 14 years later…

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