SPOILER ALERT The following is an excerpt from Death In The Stacks. Johns Valley, Oklahoma’s 4th of July parade. Download is included…
Esoterica
Small-town characters
The library in our two-room schoolhouse in Ethel, Oklahoma was a single shelf. Our teacher, beautiful Mrs. Jimmie Taylor, taught…
Universality and the new food movement
‘Tis the season to think about, write about, stand in the kitchen and make… food. So timely that my niece…
A Texas Christmas
Thinking about my father this holiday season. He and I have our birthdays in December. He would have been ninety…
Power of the pen
When I was fifteen, an English teacher assigned me a persuasive essay for our class newspaper The Goldbug. Identify a…
Going to extremes
Humans once argued about how many angels could dance on the head of a pin. Once we wore ourselves out…
I Hate My Toothbrush
I HATE MY TOOTHBRUSH and other cutting-edge devices…. I just brushed my teeth and I feel a rant coming on….
A Curmudgeon’s Lament
I’m not a happy camper. I’m not even a good sport. I’m at the high end of high-maintenance. Others accept…
Reflections on Being Human
Each of us makes sense of the world in one way or another, unless we don’t make sense of it,…
Go Cowboys!
(c) 2015 Linda S. Bingham Seth Pomeroy was an only child. His folks, Jack and Wanda Pomeroy, were reputedly the…