DID YOU KNOW...that a Creek woman, one of the largest slave-holders in Texas, shaped Texas family law, holding her husband accountable for their son....See “Texas Dames.”

 

DID YOU KNOW...a woman who loved to entertain across the South encountered raiders, putting on a show for them with her husband and then spying for Confederate troops in Arkansas.  No surprise, after the Civil War, she and her husband moved their show to Texas where it performed in small towns and country crossroads, making their home in Dallas and then Blum...See “Texas Dames.”

 

DID YOU KNOW...that a Dallas woman hid her husband’s illiteracy while they ferried travelers and then built a bridge across the Trinity.  Later, after he was killed, she operated the most stylish hotels in Dallas, but set up a man to be her public face.... See Texas Dames.”

 

DID YOU KNOW...that a woman from Young County, captured by Comanches, led soldiers to other captives and then financed their trip home from Kansas.  She would not go home until the last of the other captives reunited with their loved ones....See “Texas Dames.”

 

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Readers from the Sixties will enjoy a trip down memory lane—the naiveté of our generation and the rupture of the Vietnam War in a short story played out against the TCU campus and a family in Wichita Falls.  Have a good trip down memory lane and let the folks at Amazon know your thoughts. Titled “Into the Sun” it can be downloaded on Amazon.com for only .49 cents. Go to Amazon Shorts to download now.

 

2008 Creativity Retreats

 

Saturday, January 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Unity Church of Fort Worth

Go to “Creativity Our Soul’s Playground” for more information.

 

February 22-23 Carmen will lead a workshop to develop that distinctive “Author’s Voice” at the Dallas-Fort Worth Writers Workshop  Conference,  Grapevine Convention Center, Grapevine, TX, .  See www.dfwrite.org

 

April 11-13, a weekend for women to nurture their art and their spirituality.

Go to “Creativity Our Soul’s Playground" for more information.

 

April 27-29, Friday thru Sunday, Praxis Retreat Center.

 

 

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