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Open Season for Wasps
When the weather turns warm here in the South the wasps come out. Here in East Texas we have black wasps, black-winged red wasps, all-red red wasps, yellow and black guinea wasps (we call them yellow jackets), dirt daubers, cicada killers (hornets), bumblebees, wood borers, and honeybees. We’ve been blessed with quite a variety of…
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When I Was Two (The House That Built Me)
When I was about two years old we lived in an upstairs apartment in Tyler. I can remember wood floors and watching the TV game show “Concentration” with Mama while she folded clothes. I remember my brother Allen being a baby, and I also remember looking out of our second story window to see the…
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FOLK Magazine 2013 Journal Challenge: The Meaning of Time
Today’s journal prompt from Folk Magazine challenges us to reflect on the meaning of time by thinking about these questions: What do you spend your time doing? Is there something you wish you had more time to do? Those are loaded questions, aren’t they? Time is something we seem to take for granted until…
April Coker, Author 