April Coker, Author

Author: aencoker

  • FOLK Magazine 2013 Journal Challenge: Mary, Mary, quite contrary, DOES your garden grow?

    This week’s journal challenge is tough.  What do I intend to plant in my garden–what flowers, vegetables, herbs?  Research them and find out what grows best in my area. . .   Yeah, right.  What grows in my “garden” this year will be what I have already planted and what I will buy in pots.…

  • Wedded Life Wednesday: Bang, bang, shoot, shoot!

    One thing I would advise young couples to do is take an interest in something that interests your spouse.  If my husband wants me to go with him to a motorcycle race, I go.  If he wants me to see a movie with him, even if it is a guy flick, I go.  On the…

  • Teacher Tuesday and the FOLK Magazine 2013 Journal Challenge: Inspiration and Reflection

    This week’s journal challenge from FOLK Magazine asks us to flip through magazines, cookbooks, or an encyclopedia and reflect on the images or words that catch our attention.   My choice:  an old-school encyclopedia.  Letter A for April or Volume 2, Ameri (through) Assin.  As I remove the Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia (new in…

  • At Home Monday: A windy, cold, Scampy day!

    Remember this little gal? I’m back to working on her again!  Today I made lots of headway painting the interior walls.  She has this weird foamy wall covering that I tried to clean with all sorts of cleaners, but nothing seemed to faze it; in fact, one cleaner I used actually left little holes!  (Must…

  • Random Friday: When Country was Country?

    Miranda Lambert, Blake Shelton, Jason Aldean, Little Big Town,  Dierks Bentley, Brad Paisley, Trace Adkins, Reba McEntire. All big names in today’s country music. Then there are Dwight Yoakum, Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, Clint Black, and many others.   But these are not really country music artists to a certain generation.  According to…