2011 DECEMBER BLOG
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...and YES on the cover with my mother, a number of decades ago, it is I.
..................."In front of our house there was a big loquat shrub providing a shady place to hide. One day my playmate, Bobby, and I were playing beneath the dense foliage. Mother discovered us playing doctor and nurse, discoveriing our anatomical differences. My mother and Bobby's mother levied a purnishment of 6 weeks without playing together. Later when we both were in Austin High School with only one grade between us, I wondered if he remembered our early childhood experiments in physiology." ..........................................................................................................................................
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...and YES on the cover with my mother, a number of decades ago, it is I.
..................."In front of our house there was a big loquat shrub providing a shady place to hide. One day my playmate, Bobby, and I were playing beneath the dense foliage. Mother discovered us playing doctor and nurse, discoveriing our anatomical differences. My mother and Bobby's mother levied a purnishment of 6 weeks without playing together. Later when we both were in Austin High School with only one grade between us, I wondered if he remembered our early childhood experiments in physiology." ..........................................................................................................................................
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