A Short (love) Story – Abe’s Lady
A Story of Enduring Love, by Jackie Houchin Fifty years is a long time to love a woman, Abe admitted as he leaned out his window and breathed in the fresh spring air. A lot can happen in that time to cool a man’s passion and make him look for something new. But his love,…
Q: What Is Your Favorite Candy?
by Jackie Houchin FIRST favorite is Reese’s Peanut Butter cups. (Most fave candy in the US, BTW!) I love the smooth milk chocolate on the outside, and the cakey peanut butter filling inside. Together, a bite is pure pleasure. The chocolate melts pretty quickly, but the filling can be pressed against the roof of my…
Q: What’s Your Favorite Thing to Cook?
by Jackie Houchin A: I love, love, love cooking and eating my own Vegetable-Beef Soup. Yum!! Here’s how I make it. I start with some really good beef, like a top sirloin steak. I ruthlessly trim every bit of fat off the steak and cut it into dice-sized pieces. In a large stock pot on…
#BLOGANUARY – What is the thing you’re most scared to do? What would it take to get you to do it? – Day 31
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 31 – Worse fear? What to do to shake it? My greatest phobia is standing on the edge of things that are high. Such as, the roofs of buildings, the edges of…
#BLOGANUARY – What do you complain about the most? Day 30
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 30 – What do I complain about mostly? — Things that don’t work when or how they should. Okay, here I go. I complain about electronics when they don’t load quickly enough,…
#BLOGANUARY – What are your favorite sports to watch and play? Day 29
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 29 – Fave sports? To watch — I like to watch Little League Soccer. The kids try so hard, and yet there is no cut-throatness about it, or “fake” injury. The little…
#BLOGANUARY – What would I do if I won the Lottery? Day 28
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 28 – Win the lottery? Oh, WOW! — (I’d first have to play it.) It would depend on how much the Lottery ticket was for, of course. But say, it was in…
BOOK REVIEW – The Mystery of Mistletoe Hall: A 1920s Mystery (Lord Edgington Investigates, Book 4)
by Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin As with the other 4 Lord Edgington Investigates books I’ve read, I loved THE MYSTERY OF MISTLETOE HALL. The characters are great, of course – 75 year old L. Edgington and his grandson, the now 17 year old Christopher (often called Chrissy to his…
#BLOGANUARY – What books do you want to read? Day 27
#Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts/questons that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 27 – What books do I want to read? Oh, WOW!!!!!!! Finish Benedict Brown’s “Lord Edgington Investigates” series. (I’m on #5 of 15 now – THE MYSTERY OF MISTLETOE HALL) The second…
Words and Reviews 