All My Ancestors

I’m looking for a fruitcake to arrive in the mail.
Not just any fruitcake–it has to be one from the Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, Texas.
This fruitcake has lots of memories for me. To begin with, when I was in band (5th grade through senior year) in school, we sold these fruitcakes every year as [...]

I have not joined my ancestors in “the long sleep,” but between the ice storm that slammed Oklahoma and my own knee replacement surgery, I’ve been rather incommunicado for this past month.
I had knee surgery on Tuesday, Dec. 4 and came home from the hospital on Saturday, Dec. 8. Monday afternoon our power went [...]