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Paper dolls

I’m not a fashion blogger–and I’m certainly not fashionable–but I do like to play and create stuff. I finally checked out Polyvore just so I could add some make-believe to my day. (I miss my camera.) It suddenly occurred to … Continue reading

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Button Sunday

It’s funny ’cause it’s true. I appreciate everyone who’s bought anything I’ve created or helped create: novel, story, anthology, photo, or painting.

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April Photo A Day: Detail

This is a quite small detail from a larger painting I’ll be shipping out. I enjoy photographing and zooming in for closer looks at paintings (anyone’s paintings). Doing so always makes me think of that scene in Ferris Bueller’s Day … Continue reading

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February Photo A Day: Playing

I wonder if playing is part of every writer’s life. Playing satisfies the need to create story. We anthropomorphize animals, objects, and gods, giving them the qualities we know about humans and weaving elaborate tales about them. Sometimes those stories … Continue reading

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Button Sunday

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Button Sunday

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Little mysteries

Cousins Alan and Elenore with Papa. I don’t know the date of this badly damaged photo, but research on the style and width of Alan’s tie tells me that it, at least, is probably from the 1950s. (It would look … Continue reading

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Legacy Writing 365:361

In the fall of 2001, the first Timothy James Beck book was released–the first published novel that I’d had a hand in. Tom and I traveled that Christmas, and when we visited Daniel’s mother Terri, she sat me down at … Continue reading

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Legacy Writing 365:348

‘Nathan, Anna, and John–all booksellers–decided to read A Coventry Christmas again this season, a chapter a day. They’ve Tweeted back and forth to one another about it, and ‘Nathan has been blogging it–the book has actually found new readers thanks … Continue reading

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State of The Compound

We are enjoying a “cold” front–and I realize cold is relative, but 56 degrees is a welcome relief in Houston. Except my flowers looked sad about it this morning. If they survived summer, they need to plant up and endure … Continue reading

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