April Coker, Author

Tag: miranda lambert

  • Small Town, Big Impact

    “Everybody dies famous in a small town,” sings Miranda Lambert in her hit tune.  Small towns dot the landscape of Texas and every other state, and rarely get the attention they deserve.  You won’t hear names like Van, Lindale, Mineola, Gladewater, Big Sandy, Mabank, etc. as often as you hear Dallas, Houston, and Austin, but…

  • For My Girl Miranda

    Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have heard about Miranda Lambert and Blake Shelton’s divorce after only four years of marriage.  As one of Miranda’s former high school teachers and one of the two teachers she chose for the Teachers Count poster campaign and invited to the sold-out Nashville Rising flood relief concert…

  • Waiting your turn. . .

      The other day on the way to work I had to stop for a red light.  Only the red light wasn’t working.  It wasn’t even blinking.  Something had caused a power outage on that road and none of the lights were working. But amazingly, all the drivers on that four-lane intersection were able to…

  • Free and Easy Friday: Road Trip!

      I had an opportunity to make the one hour trek to the nearest Snuffer’s restaurant and Bass Pro Shop today with the hubster and that is exactly what I did.  Even with the afternoon temperature reaching 104, we had a cool time together.   That’s about all you can do in Texas in August…

  • Teacher Tuesday: The rewards of social media

    Facebook sometimes gets a bad rap.  Everybody who is hip and tech savvy seems to have a Facebook or Facebook page while the rest consider it a waste of time and an invasion of privacy.  Granted, some people spend way too much time reading news feeds and posting statuses that no one cares about.  Worse…