I have 2 children, a son-in-law and daughter-in-law and 3 grand children. A technical illustrator son, a nurse daughter who is an R.N. on a hospital oncology unit. I'm VERY proud of her! Grandsons who play football and baseball and a Grandaughter who is attending the University of New Orleans. There really isn't much about me...except my family. I guess that is my best achievement!

I like plants, and old sentimental stuff. I like brick-a-brack and have some old quilts and some odds and ends that belonged to my great grandmother, including an oak rocking chair I truly cherish. I spend all my spare time at the computer, with my cat supervising everything. But I don't know as much about it as I should!! I'm not nosey enough I guess. My latest venture is learning to write HTML code. One thing I've found out is that html code doesn't always behave like you think it should and this is how you feel when that happens. :-)

I LOVE Palestine and the piney woods of EAST TEXAS. I consider my roots as being there. All the things I loved most in the world were there and I have many happy memories of family, friends, school, and Grace Methodist Church. The most beautiful courthouse in the world (to me) was almost a second home as my Grandaddy had an office there and I loved climbing that lovely, circular staircase! So, I'm very sentimental too. :-)

And did I mention that I also love to read? Just click on the title of the book to go purchase it at Barnes & Noble Bookstore! Some of my favorite books include Margaret Mitchell's 1936 classic best seller GONE WITH THE WIND, which is at the top of the list! I recently read it again, and it was just as great as the first time! To me this book tells not only of some of the most devastating times in our nation's history but also shows a vivid picture of many different kinds of people and how they each coped with the changing world around them as they truly saw their lives forever "Gone With The Wind"!

All my favorite books are about people either real or fictional. Well, I suppose THE CAT WHO CAME FOR CHRISTMAS, the bestseller by Cleveland Amory, who founded The Fund For Animals in 1967, is not about people but a CAT! And yet it is about the person who found and came to love this foundling, on Christmas Eve. If you love cats the way I do, then you know they are more than a pet or possession. They are members of our family and we love them and grieve for them. Surely, they must be almost "human"!

A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE published in 1979 by Barbara Taylor Bradford, whose novels have sold more than 56 million copies, is another book about how people cope. In this instance, one woman builds a business empire out of defiance and with determination to have only the best the world has to offer.

Another one is about not one woman but many women, THE KENNEDY WOMEN by Laurence Leamer. All the loves, losses, sacrifices, and family scandal throughout their lives does not seem to lessen their faith or love of their family. To me this real life story suggests that even with all the money and power available, it did not bring a lasting happiness to these women.

Several other favorites on my bookshelves are THE FIRM, by John Grisham and TEXAS by James Michener. Both tell a tale of greed and power. In TEXAS Michener traces the history of the state and gives us an appreciation of the diversity of people and cultures that made present day Texas.

Most everyone has a love of their country and home state! I am no different. Texas has been my home from east to west and back again ever since my mother brought me home to "Texas" as a 6 week old infant from the cold north of "South Dakota"! I guess that makes me a "yankee" and that was my granddaddy's nickname for me as long as he lived! I loved him so! :-) AND I LOVE TEXAS! I guess you can tell THAT already! :-)

My next favorite book is an adventure book! A real live adventure of NASA's greatest moment! LOST MOON by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger. The heart pounding, edge-of-your-seat kind of book (even when you know the outcome) that was brought to life in the movie version "Apollo 13". I never tire of reading the book over and over and watching the movie, over and over. It is a true story of how man can conquer almost impossible and insurmountable circumstances! A book of faith and how "impossible is NOT acceptable"!

On a slightly lighter note are two more of my favorites, both about faith and undying love. GOLIATH, the life and times of Robert Schuller by James Penner and THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY by Robert James Waller, the latter of which, made into a movie by the same name, was almost 3 years on the New York Times Bestseller List. Both are easy to read and you will not want to put the book down until the very end! :-) So now you have proof....I do indeed LOVE to READ!

These are only a few of my favorite books that I have on shelves and in boxes! When I go "shopping" with my daughter, IF "Momma" is good, :-) we can stop at the bookstore! She knows it must be the very last stop because I NEVER want to leave!

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