Carole Sikes Artist / Writer in Austin, Texas

MERRY CHRISTMAS...Austin is buzzing with Christmas activities too numerous to mention, so I wont.  I have been writing instead of painting. The book is GROWING UP IN AUSTIN, the on-line publisher Lulu.com has copies if you are so curious you'd like to buy one. Publishing is free so Lulu makes money on the copies that are purchased. I bought 8 for grandchildren and the Austin History Center and SMU's Archives of Women of the Southwest. So I'm sure Lulu has made her costs. I have no way to compare Lulu with any other on-line publishers so I'm not recommending them. But I do recommend that all of you who are older than dirt make haste to do this. It is very satisfying and even though your grandchildren won't give it a nod until you are dead, they will be glad then. Not that you're dead but that you left them some idea of the strange life before iPads, smart phones, video games and for heavens sake even without TV and  air conditioning. So here is an excerp...an