April Coker, Author

Category: Life

  • Wait for it Wednesday: Fall Fashion Preview!

    Ever since I was a preteen I have loved looking at models in fashion magazines.  In sixth grade I fell in love with the Partridge Family and David Cassidy, of course, but when I found out that Susan Dey, who played the older sister on the show, was also a model, I saved up my…

  • Meaningless Drivel Monday: E-conundrum

    I’m in the middle of a dilemma.  A conundrum. An e-conundrum.  My Blackberry Torch cell phone is acting up and I cannot decide upon my choice for replacing it.   I like my Blackberry.  My son got me hooked on it when he became the Blackberry troubleshooter for his former employer.  A former Palm Pilot…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Cool Coolness

    It is a rare thing indeed to sit outside on a west-facing porch on an early August evening in Texas without breaking a sweat.  I can’t believe I just enjoyed having Lucy the cat walk across my lap while I enjoyed a bowl of Goldenbrook Farms Praline Pecan ice cream outdoors in August!   But…

  • Wedded Life Wednesday: If Once is Good, Twice Must Be Better?

    If you have been keeping up with my blog, you may remember that I did some house and dog sitting for my son and daughter-in-law recently.  Each time they left town, they had evening flights to their destinations on Thursday, which is the day that I work at the flag shop, selling flags and wrapping…

  • Meaningless Drivel Monday: How My Brother-in-Law and I Got Hitched Without Knowing It

    Huh-what?  Yep, I married my brother-in-law without even knowing t, and he didn’t know it, either.  It had to be the easiest and cheapest wedding ever, because there was no wedding at all, no dress, no attendants, no church, no cake, no preacher.  It just happened! Seven years ago, actually.  We joke about it now,…