Mom sent me this book when I first bought the house here in Tiny Town, actually she sent me a few gardening books, which I deeply appreciate! As I’d decided not to garden in a big way last year, but to get a feel for my land, and start building up to the garden this… Read More Book Review: Texas Fruit & Vegetable Gardening
What the heck. I stopped doing book reviews a long time ago, and for good reasons. But this author needs more attention on her stuff because it’s good. Really, really good, and I want her to write more. So for purely selfish reasons… Red Wolf is, so far, two novellas that are either science fiction… Read More Book Review: Red Wolf
This was a good week for reviews! Jim McCoy gave Fantasy Treehouse Art & Architecture 5 out of 5 Swamp Chickens (a joke that will make more sense if you’ve read the book). I was tickled he wanted to review the art book, it’s out of his usual zone. If you enjoy fantasy and science… Read More A Trio of Reviews
With the moving truck coming on the morrow, 99% of our life in boxes and scattered across the state, and my wrapping up the final ends of the last job… it was our ninth anniversary today. I called the First Reader and said ‘let’s not make food.’ Which meant we had to choose a place… Read More Review: Razzoo’s Cajun Café
My son took me to see Death on the Nile. It was sweet and funny, because he gets free tickets as a perk with his job, and he’d seen the posters and knew very little about the movie, only that he thought I’d enjoy it. I enthusiastically fell in line with his plan. Not only… Read More Death on the Nile: Movie Review
I grew up reading Westerns. Mostly Louis L’Amour, but my great-grandparents had a full set of Zane Grey (in the iconic red-and-white covers) in their home on the Oregon coast. I collected a fair chunk of them, for nostalgia if nothing else, only to lose them to a flooded basement. I imprinted early on those… Read More Oh look! A book!
This is a place near where we’ve been living. And I have wanted to go for some time, but the Little Man has been uninterested at best… he’s all about Asian cuisines. Lousiana? Not too much. The First Reader and I made time for a date today, and he’s amenable to where I want to… Read More Restaurant Review: Bayou Market
Mouth? I’ve spent most of a lifetime being chased around a campfire by smoke. You know the drill, if you’ve spent any time camping at all. You snuggle up to the warmth of your tiny blaze, and then the smoke gets in your eyes. You move, and it follows… Plus, when you get back out… Read More Smoke gets in your…
There is more to the Texas Discovery Gardens than the butterfly house, but oh my that is an amazing place to visit. Worth the round trip that passes me through downtown Dallas, even. Tucked into the Texas State Fairgrounds, this small garden is a jewel, and very kid-friendly. Even on a hot day, there is… Read More Butterfly Garden
I’m writing this post because the Little Man asked me to do something. Also, over his sixteenth birthday celebration we had a conversation about his nom-de-blog. He’s half a foot taller than I am, broader in the shoulders, and ‘little’ just isn’t the right word any more. Except… he thinks it’s funny. And he told… Read More Lunch in Alvarado
Academic Magic by Becky Jones is a solid debut novel. I enjoyed the read, and would recommend it if you enjoy scenic campuses, academic politics, and talking squirrels. What? Why not? My alma mater has a clade of luxuriantly plump tree dwellers, so I immediately pictured one of those chonky bois as the squirrel… Read More Book Review: Academic Magic
So! Reviews are coming back. I make no promises. I hadn’t been reading much at all for a long time, and I can’t and won’t read in genres I am currently writing in. Which leaves out large swathes of SFF. Besides which, my comfort reads are, and always have been, mysteries. Specifically Brit Myst,… Read More Book Review: Murder at Mondial Castle