Tossing about in the bed last night, chasing the elusive slumber I so desperately sought, my mind wandered back to the places I have been and people I have seen the past couple of weeks. Weekend before last, Donya and I flew to Texarkana, Arkansas to spend a couple of days. There is only one…
Category: Family
How To Spend a Life
If love is what I get from You Then you can bet I’ll give it too ‘Cause all I really want to do Is spend my lifetime loving you. ¶ When friends all leave or fade away And the sun still shines on another day Just know that I am here to stay And spend…
Somewhere the Night
Somewhere the Night | D. Gene Strother Somewhere the Night Is still and quiet Somewhere the Dreamer Dreams ¶ Somewhere the Moon Shines big and bright Somewhere, not here it Seems ¶ Somewhere there’s Peace, Tranquility Somewhere the heart beats True ¶ Somewhere is where I Ought to be Somewhere, right there with You ¶…
Saturday Nights Were Special
Dateline Dallas (and Mineral Wells) TX – Anybody else out there remember Saturday Night Wrestling from the Sportatorium in Dallas back in the 1970s? You do??? Cheers! Read on. If not, read on anyhow for some sweet memories you might yet make… So, I am checking FaceBook the other day and I see the note that…
Unbroken
I have just returned from a family gathering on my mother’s side. My Aunt Nelda and Uncle James hosted it on their gorgeous, sprawling west Texas ranch. They called it Camp Granky, in honor of my maternal grandmother (whom I named as a toddler when I could not manage calling her “Granny,” which my dad…
And Did She Fly?
There is a nagging pain inside me today. Yesterday, it finally happened. We loaded up her things and moved my Holly 150 miles down I-30 to Texarkana. Sure, it was time. She has paid her dues, gotten her education, worked hard to establish a life for herself, and now she is set to take flight….
How Beauty Beats the Beast
Awhile ago, Joni Eareckson Tada featured Holly on her Joni and Friends television program. The special has made its way to YouTube. I thought I would share with you the Beauty whom the Beast could not defeat…