The Dallas Morning News must be hurting for subscriptions, if they’re resorting to reminding their readers they’re paying $4 a gallon at the pumps as a marketing hook. Today I received an email sporting the following subject line: “Save gas, have news delivered to you!”
Since when has saving gas been the straw that broke the [...]
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Signs and Blunders
So I saw this church sign the other day.
That is all.
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Just kidding! Although the words “church sign” have probably already made you chuckle, groan, or shake your head and go, “Wow,” in your most sarcastic of tones, you still want to know what this sign I saw as I drove home from Wal Mart last [...]
If we were Pakistani…
…my brother Greg’s nickname would be Akhtar.
You see, when Greg was a toddler, he wasn’t the happiest child. One might even venture to describe him as a bit of a grouch. So much of a grouch, at times, that he earned the nickname Oscar. As in, the Sesame Street character who lives in a trash [...]
I wonder if the stars sign the life that is to be mine
This blog is entitled Author In Progress. To my chagrin, I’ve just realized that my last writing post was on the 16th of December, 2006, when a literary agent responded to my query asking to see thirty pages of The Collapse Of Camelot.
I’m not sure why I never followed up with the news that said [...]