Hurray For Our Young People

Twice in two weeks I have been privileged to discover young people out working along side our streets and on our school grounds. Three cheers for the kids and their sponsors!!!

Last week I passed a group from St. Michael's picking up trash along Florey and Choctaw Streets. I asked if I could take a picture of them and they agreed. Today I drove past P.E. Wallace School and saw a bunch of kids planting trees.  I had to stop, ask questions and take pictures.  I learned the group went to the Houston Zoo in April as part of an Earth Day Program.  Center Point Energy then gave them over one hundred Bottle Brush and Crape Myrtael trees to plant. I lucked out and caught the students in the act of finishing their planting on the school grounds along Choctaw Street.

I can image these same students twenty or thirty years from now stopping by Mt. Pleasant and pointing out the school they attended in 5th and 6th grade and showing them the very tree they planted May 5, 2017. They may also remember the crazy old lady that stopped to take their picture.

 

Fall activities

Fall is always exciting with the return to school in September, and family get-together near Hot Springs, plus author fest in Tahlequah, Ok in October. I'm looking forward to visiting Winfield ISD September 14 with my mini writing workshop for 4th through 7th grade students. I hope they will enjoy the program as much as I enjoy sharing my writing experiences with them.

NETWO, the writing organization I belong to, is planning a free workshop October 22, 2011. It will be at the Pizza Inn in Pittsburg, Texas. There will be several interesting speakers and information dealing with publishing and promoting our work through internet. Check out details www.netwo.org Everyone is invited.

I'm busy rewriting parts of sequel to Second Chance. Not sure what the title will be, but it takes place in Kilgore 1931 when the big oil boom filled the town to overflowing with all sorts of characters. Some were honest, some were anything but honest. Hope to have it published by 4RV Publishing in Spring of 2012 if I can just get this rewrite up to par. This will be the best book I've written so far. I'm so excited.

Until next time. Take care of each other.

When I'm Feeling Angry

Workshops are almost always interesting. Jory Sherman's workshop June25th on ebooks was informative and challenging. As an author I'm interested in promoting my books, obviously. I usually do this offering my mini writing workshop for fourth through sixth grade students in schools. According to Mr. Sherman and other speakers I've heard, the future in book sales will be through Kindle, Ipods and that sort of technology. It's a new world folks.

The workshop was in Winnsboro, Texas, at a book and gift shop called, Winnsboro Emporium. They have a little bit of everything: collector books, new books, paintings, pottery, jewelry, etc. I found two books I had to have for our grand daughter. When I'm Feeling Angry by Trace Moroney is a paper back picture book suitable for children two and older. The author points out that we all get angry sometimes and that it is okay to be angry. It is how we handle our anger that is important.

When I'm feeling Angry is one of a series of books on feelings published by The Five Mile Press. Some of the other titles deal with being scared, or lonely, hurt, etc. Trace Moroney's web site is http://www.tracemoroney.com/ This series of books is very good.