“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Sweet Olive and Other Lights for Bloom Day
I am flabbergasted. This morning I thought of the sweet olive blooms that come in the fall. I thought it too early, that they would come late October. Then, surprise! The sweet olive blossoms and this water lily are about it for us now. Both usually go far into fall and winter here, but, remembering…
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Victim of Mood
Yesterday I experienced one of those light-bulb moments–you know where you get an idea that lights up your mind, and it is all you can see. In that moment, I thought: This is what I should be working on. I need to chuck my current book and go with this idea. And for a few…
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Rain, and Safe from the Storm
Tropical Storm Lee blew in and broke our drought. Our rain gauge showed over 10 inches in three days. Our house is set in what was a pecan orchard, with trees nearly a hundred years old. We lost a few limbs, but we usually do in any storm. A tornado cut a swath a half…
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Saturday Inspiration– Rainy Day Love
We are getting rain, blessed rain! I’m tellin’ ya’, I know for a fact that the ground was rock hard at least eighteen inches down from the drought. So whoo-hoo for the rain! I find rainy days water me just as they do the land. The rain wraps around the house and closes out the…
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RIP Our Dear Fancy
Gone but not forgotten, our dear cat, Fancy. Ancient of days at twenty years of age, Fancy lived a good long life and gave much to her humans. Fancy, the manx, was born in rural Oklahoma and came to her family when only weeks old. Not quite ready to leave her mother, she would climb…
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I Won My Heart’s Delight– gardening gloves!
I keep saying I am not a gardener, but would anyone other than a gardener get all excited about winning gardening gloves? Well, at the very least I am a woman who works at times in the garden, as well as helps to move car parts, furniture, and firewood. And for years I have refused…
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Curtiss Ann Matlock 