In 2018 I put a lot of effort into making a YouTube video called “She Spoke of Her River”. This summer (2022) I decided to construct a book with the illustrations I’d assembled for the video. She Spoke of Her River: Concho Valley, Texas https://a.co/d/445YqOL ..read more

I had an idea to take my YouTube video “She Spoke of Her River” and convert it into a book. I’d been playing around with Microsoft Publisher. I decided it is like Microsoft PowerPoint (of which I am a PowerPoint Queen.) So, I set up a template, got a free font, and put it together. I uploaded the pdf to Amazon KDP, and it was accepted on its first attempt. “Hmm,” I said to myself. “This is cool.” Now I have “She Spoke of Her River” on Amazon as a book. Take a look. My new book that I formatted with Microsoft Publisher ..read more

I made a video clip of my sketches for each of the 26 chapters ..read more

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I need to write a story for each of the years, 1878, 1879, 1880 and 1890. Does anyone have any ideas ..read more

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Scroll down to the bottom of any page on this site and find “SEARCH MY TAGS” See which stories involve: Addiction, Alcoholism, Arachnophobia, Asperger syndrome, Bad luck, Blindness, Club feet, Color Blindness, Compassion, Compulsive liar, Deafness, Delusions of grandeur, Dyslexia, Entrepreneurship, Fascination with pranks, Homosexuality, Klinefelter syndrome, Mental illness, Narcissism, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Pareidolia, Personification, Savant, Selective mutism, Supernatural, Superstition, Unplanned pregnancy, Unreliable narrator ..read more

Synopsis: An abused, autistic savant, for a short time, is befriended by a lazy man. I am about to share the experience of my alarming encounter with Oscar. It is somewhat unbelievable and so you may not trust me, but I hope you will listen and treat it as truth. It all happened a year ago, when I was still very naughty. I’d been at my usual bar, hustling and drinking when I got out of hand and was taken to the Tom Green County Jail. There I met a boy of a man who altered my life. I’d been a renter and jack of all trades before meeting Oscar. But he and I became a team with good fortune soon a ..read more

Synopsis: Drama girl makes a fool of herself in a broom making shop. Until her thirteenth birthday, Graciela had been pampered. But when Father passed away, the forthcoming stepfather challenged the lenient discipline in the house. With his debut, Graciela no longer would be cultivated into a princess. This is a story of how the guarded girl got into a crude predicament in San Angelo, Texas. Jim, her stepdad had told her to gather broom weed from the pasture and bring bundles of it to the broom-maker on Concho Avenue. She saw her dynasty crumbling with this command. She was confident, but neve ..read more