April Coker, Author

Author: aencoker

  • A Gathering of Writers

    Last weekend we met at a local hotel, about fifteen writers:  novelists, technical writers, poets, songwriters, magazine writers, and newspaper columnists.  It was a motley crew of people from various backgrounds, short, tall, young, younger, African-American, Latino, skinny, not-so-skinny, hairy, and not-so-hairy!     We brought our books to peddle and our experience to share.…

  • Booth sprucin’ and ponderin’. . .

    One of the things you have to do when you have a booth space in an antiques mall is spruce it up occasionally, or as Vintage Rescue Squad puts it, “foof your boof.” I just love that.  I wish I had thought of it myself!  Surely she won’t mind if I borrow it? Anyway, these…

  • Not my day. . .

    Have you ever had a day when nothing went right, when you felt like you should have just stayed in bed?  I imagine we all have. Today was that kind of day for me.   It started last night when I knelt down on the end of my porch to turn off the water faucet…

  • Bath update in progress. . .sneak peek only!

    And this is all I’m giving you. . . it’s been a while since my last post. The days seem to fly by! Between working and cleaning and junking and gardening and writing and painting and all those other things that must be done NOW, blogging seems to always be last. Does anyone else have…

  • You never know what you might see. . .

    . . .at your local Walmart! Check this out! It’s a 1950’s Chevrolet pickup truck so cool I had to take pictures. If you look carefully, you may notice that the paint was intentionally done to look like rusty, aged, old paint.  Hubby says that Richard Rawlings of the Discovery Channel show “Fast ‘n’ Loud”…