“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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May is National Celiac Awareness Month
What is Celiac Disease? Here is the explanation from the Gluten Intolerance Group (GIG) website: Celiac disease (CD) is also referred to as gluten sensitive enteropathy (GSE), gluten intolerance, or celiac sprue. It is considered to be the most under-diagnosed common disease today, potentially affecting 1 in every 133 people in the USA. It is…
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Radio Moments in Little Town, Great Big Life
My dear husband was on the road yesterday and reported hearing two commercials from a small radio station in Mississippi. The first was: “Here’s the Funeral Report, brought to you by the Piggly-Wiggly.” Do you remember the Piggly-Wiggly stores? Oh, I do! And I recall funeral reports from the radio when I was a child.…
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Weekend Cooking: GF Apricot Nectar Cake
I’m taking part in Weekend Cooking, hosted by Beth Fish Reads. Such fun, as I have a brand new cake I’m enjoying. I adapted this from an old recipe I got from a woman in my church when I was a young homemaker. Got a hankering for it, and found I could still make it…
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Writing Lessons in Bloom
We’ve been gone. Did you miss me? We went to visit family, and we returned to so much bloom as to take my breath. Once you have a book under way, everything is relevant. Everything is grist. Ideas come. Connections become apparent. ~Jack M. Bickham So many small things go into making a garden, and…
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Revival Going On Here
I have been absent from the blog, and this time that is a very good thing. I’ve been writing on a new novel and some other things. There’s something of a revival going on within my writer self. There’s also a great revival of garden life. Some of you may remember a couple of months…
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Anything Can Be
Look what I got in the mail! A generous gift of oxblood lily bulbs from Nola at AlamoNorth. Thank you, dear friend. When they bloom, I will think of you. I went to the Mobile Botanical Gardens spring plant sale. Whoo-hoo! Does anyone know the name of this tree? It is evergreen. The leaves grow…
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~ Contra Costa Times
Curtiss Ann Matlock 