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Chad Zunker

From college football to creating baby products, this best-selling Texas novelist has traveled a unique path. An email from Amazon Prime started my relationship with Chad Zunker. Apparently, one of the lesser-known benefits of Prime membership is First Reads, a program that offers customers early access to new books across popular genres for free. Each month, I peruse the list

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Southern Raised

A family quartet of musicians and vocalists make their mark—in many different and multi-talented ways. How does one describe an unusually unique band such as Southern Raised in three words or less? They probably don’t! That would be very difficult to do even in a full, single sentence.  You would have to encapsulate family relationships, vocal harmony, bluegrass, gospel, classical,

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Pizza and a Slice of Life

I’m in a race. There are times when I write this column days (and occasionally weeks…though rare) ahead of when it is due.  I am very used to living in a deadline-driven world and doing the things I have to

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The Forecast Calls for FAIR Weather

I remember, as a child, going to the feedstore with my Granddaddy.  It was always an adventure.  I would stand beside him and listen as he and the other men would talk about things–happenings in town, what time the domino

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Slip-Sliding Away

There’s a saying: “Growing old is not for wimps.”  It’s true.  Things to which I once never gave a second thought are now very real concerns.  Like falling. During the recent deep freeze, my husband told me I didn’t even need to “think”

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Blessings Big and Small

As I begin this new year, I admit I am still thinking about Christmas cards.  The reason? Thanks to them, I begin this year with a strong sense of gratitude.  While addressing Christmas cards this year, I thought of each

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