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I didn’t want to do it. I’d been a residential real estate agent and knew all the reasons I shouldn’t sell my own house, but I forgot to consider the Mr. Bill aspect. For Sale by Whom? There’s a lot about selling a home that’s the same, whether you sell it yourself or engage anContinue reading “Heading to Heath: For Sale By Owner”

TRAVEL HERE: HOW ADVERTISING SOLD US A CAR Our family has a new addition.  A 2014 Mercedes Benz CLA. The Sad Day One night in October of 2012, someone rear-ended Bill’s Mercedes on Preston Road, just a couple of blocks from where we turn into our neighborhood.  It was a sad day.  Bill loved thatContinue reading “The Devil, the Wolf and our Mercedes Benz”

TRAVEL HERE: WHAT HAPPENED TO DIANE SAWYER I go away on vacation for a few days and the world falls apart. For one thing Yahoo Voices is closing down. I really enjoyed writing for them, but I’d only been doing it for a few months, so I’m going to live. More distressing was the newsContinue reading “The ABC World News with Who?”

HEADING TO HEATH: GETTING TO KNOW OUR ARCHITECT Have you ever gotten it wrong with your first impressions? Well, that’s what happened to us at the architect’s office. The Heinz Ketchup Syndrome – Anticipation! Last week I mentioned we were somewhat anxious about meeting with the architect for the first time.  Well, that was an understatement.Continue reading “The Second Date was Better”

TRAVEL HERE: THE OOPS FACTOR So, what’s  your home improvement shopping spot?  Lowe’s? Home Depot? Walmart?  You know what’s funny?  I remember when we used to just call them hardware stores. Handy Dan’s The first Home Improvement Store I knew about was Handy Dan’s.  We had one on Garland Road, over in East Dallas.  TheContinue reading “Home Improvement Wars”

HEADING TO HEATH: SO HOW MUCH IS THIS GOING TO COST? When you’re building a home, there’s what you want and then there’s what you can afford. We fell in love with the architect’s plans, but could we afford to build the house? Hello Mike So I’ve told you that we really like our developer,Continue reading “Nailing Down the Nickles and Dimes”

TRAVEL HERE: DFW WRITER’S CONFERENCE The DFW Writers’ Conference has a lot more than great classes.  There are luncheons, networking and of course, The Gong Show. The Rest of the Story The evening before the conference, after my first vounteering stint, I attended a little soiree for members of DFWWW and the VIP’s. I didn’tContinue reading “The Gong Show and more”

TRAVEL HERE: FAMILY VACATIONS TO DALLAS TX Dallas is a great place to live and there’s lots of things to do, but it used to be where my family headed for our vacations. Texas, My Texas About a month ago, I shared a couple of food-related stories with you, which began on a vacation, butContinue reading “When Dallas Was My Destination”

HEADING TO HEATH: MEETING OUR ARCHITECT Confession – after all that hard work, our first meeting at the architect was sort of anticlimactic. What We Expected Bill and I were a tad bit nervous about going to the architect.  It wasn’t our first rodeo.  When we built the California house, we’d had to fire theContinue reading “Architecturally Speaking”

TRAVEL HERE: DFW WRITER’S CONFERENCE There’s so much to the DFW Writers’ Conference I could probably write twice as many posts about it as I already have, but here’s the last of my classes. Cross Genre with Jonathon Maberry Jonathon Maberry was the Keynote speaker of the event and he taught a few seminars.  Lots of folksContinue reading “Cross Genre & Bookcovers”