April Coker, Author

Category: Life

  • Wedded Life Wednesday: What we do. . .

      Last weekend hubby suggested we go to the drive-in movie.  In our little neck of the East Texas woods we are fortunate to have a real live working drive-in theater, very much like those of yore, except there are no speaker poles.  Moviegoers listen to the movie over their car stereos instead.   I…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Texas state . . . rodent?

    Yesterday I shared pictures of the beautiful Indian paintbrushes that blanket the field behind my house.  When I was walking back to the house after my chicken wire expedition that day, I stumbled upon (almost in!) this large hole.     I was like, “What the?”  It was the diameter of a soccer ball, at…

  • Meaningless Drivel Monday: Paintbrushes and bluebonnets

    Bluebonnets are the Texas state flower and they deserve the honor, but there is another wildflower that beautifies the Texas countryside as well, and I don’t feel it gets the attention it deserves.  It is the Indian paintbrush, NOT to be confused with Indian blanket, which is a whole different flower.     Contrary to…

  • Wedded Life Wednesday: Ups and downs and all arounds. . .

    Last weekend hubby and I drove two hours east to see my former student and country superstar Miranda Lambert in concert.  Hubby really does not like country music at all, but he has been a trooper and accompanied me to many of her concerts.  I think the opportunity to shop at Bass Pro and eat…

  • Teacher Tuesday: Evidence of New Life

      This week’s journal challenge from Folk Magazine asks writers to reflect upon the evidence of new life we saw on last week’s nature walk, and to describe new beginnings evident in our lives.   Spring is a wonderful season of new beginnings.  Everywhere you look you see flowers bursting off their stems, birds happily…