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Christy’s Side of the Story…
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Mon, November 22, 2010
Christy (my wife of 17 years) was asked to write her side of our story for Shereads.org. Thought you might like to see it. It’s called ”The Woman Behind the Writer.”
Speechless…
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Thu, November 18, 2010
All I can say is “Wow! Wish I’d been there.”
Some Thoughts on Turning 41…
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Wed, November 03, 2010
(In no particular order or value.)
A good cup of coffee is tough to beat. A bad cup is better than no cup.
Little television news is actually news.
The Oreo is the best cookie ever made.
Movie Stuff…
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Tue, September 21, 2010
One of the things we’ve hoped for is that someone in Hollywood would notice my stories. Well…
Every Now and Then…
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Wed, August 11, 2010
I hear a song that gets me where few others do, or can. This one did and does.
Wow.
(The note I got said this girl was 7. Judging by the absence of her two front teeth, I’d say that’s right.)
P.S. If I get hit by a truck tonight and you all send me home tomorrow (I’m not planning on going anywhere but in a very real sense I’m not in control of when I leave, so...) please ask two people to sing at my going home party: Vince Gil singing “Go Rest High on that Mountain” and this girl.
I Need Some Help…
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Wed, July 21, 2010
Around my house, I do the floors. As in vacuum, sweep and mop. No kidding. For some reason my friends hear this and they say, “Really?”
“Yes. Really.”
Anyway, my vacuum died.
Latest Pictures from Texas
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Tue, June 08, 2010
I’m in Texas researching my next book. It involves a Texas Ranger. No, not the baseball player. The law enforcement kind. I came out here, met a retired Ranger named Brantley Foster and he arranged it so I could play cowboy for a day. I did. It’s official. After forty years of life on this planet, I’m finally a cowboy.
Well, okay...sort of.
A Song Inspired By My Book
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Thu, May 27, 2010
I received an email today from a singer/songwriter in Phoenix, AZ. Ginger Tabot. She told me she’d read my last book, “Where the River Ends” and that it had inspired her to write a song which she has now recorded on her latest album, or cd, or whatever we’re calling them these days. How cool is that! I wrote her back and told her that I have the musical talent of a green bean so to think that my work actually inspired someone with talent is more than I can fathom. The song is called, “When the River Flows.” Listen here.
I"d Like to Apologize…
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Mon, May 17, 2010
To my nephew. Ben. Yesterday, he was wearing a pair of jeans and I made fun of him for wearing them. I told him that no man in his right mind would ever wear a pair of jeans like that. They were girl-jeans all the way. I could not understand what possessed him to wear such a thing.
So why the apology?
Audio for ‘The Mountain Between Us.’
Posted in The Kitchen Sink on Mon, May 17, 2010
If you’d like to listen to the first seven or eight minutes of Mountain, click the link. It’s a strange sensation to listen to someone you don’t know read a story that started as a whisper on the back side of your brain. But, it’s also reaaaaaaaallllllly cool. Enjoy.