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There is Justice Where the Crawdads Sing
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens, G.P. Putnam' Sons, 2018 First, let me say I enjoyed reading this book, even though the premise...
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Phyllis H. Moore
Nov 13, 20182 min
Holiday Read
Meg Miller is making her crime-solving debut in a holiday story with unpredictable twists and turns. She's a sixty-something widow,...
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Phyllis H. Moore
Oct 15, 20183 min
Scary Music
We went to the symphony this afternoon. It was the Halloween performance. The Galveston Symphony has an entertaining and engaging...
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Phylls H. Moore
Sep 30, 20183 min
Aging is Extraordinary
You never know about these quote memes. Sometimes quotes are attributed to people when they didn't actually say them. But let's assume...
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Phyllis H. Moore
Sep 7, 20182 min
Ember Months are a Thing
When Bessie Black stood in her living room and told me she put her Christmas tree up in the Ember Months, I thought it was something she...
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Phylls H. Moore
Jul 27, 20183 min
Next Year in Havana, a Jewel
In 1959 Elisa Perez, her sisters, mother, and father leave Cuba as Batista falls to Fidel Castro. She leaves behind a forbidden love,...
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Phylls H. Moore
Jul 14, 20183 min
What's in a Name
When I started writing Birdie & Jude, my dog, Ollie, was declining and eventually had to be put down. Birdie has a terrier in the story,...
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Phylls H. Moore
Jul 4, 20184 min
Freedom is for Everyone, Use Your Words
Before the 4th of July every year I read this blog post that I initially wrote in 2018. It's mostly depressing to see where we've been...
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Phylls H. Moore
May 31, 20183 min
Savannah, Kitty Bartholomew, and Geraldine
My son got a dog for Christmas. Her name is Savannah. That was the name given to her in the New Dawn Rescue Shelter. When we picked her...
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Phyllis H. Moore
May 22, 20186 min
It Will Happen Again
It will happen again. It will be in a school, a theater, a church, a mall, at a concert, any where people are gathered. It will happen...
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Phylls H. Moore
May 19, 20182 min
It Happened Again
Mike Pence says his prayers are with the Santa Fe, Texas community. Thanks, Mike. Apparently, we Americans will always have some tragedy...
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Phyllis H. Moore
May 8, 20183 min
7 Mamas That'll Make you Look Like Mother Nature
I suspect when we read about less than stellar mothers, it makes us feel like we might have done a good job. Dysfunctional families in...
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Phylls H. Moore
Apr 19, 20184 min
And the Day Came
I originally published this blog last year. Around the week of my birthday, several things happened, coincidences that I probably...
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Phylls H. Moore
Apr 10, 20182 min
There's Something About an Unreliable Narrator
Some of my favorite novels are told from the point of view of the unreliable narrator: Catcher in the Rye, by J. D. Salinger, The Girl on...
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Phylls H. Moore
Apr 5, 20182 min
Authenticity, an Open Book
I went to Atlanta last weekend to help my friend, Mark David Gibson, launch his memoir, Served in Silence. It’s a riveting coming of age...
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Phylls H. Moore
Mar 21, 20182 min
The Great Santini, Review
I like a good southern author, and Pat Conroy was one of my favorites. Prince of Tides is a memorable novel. That’s why I picked up a...
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Phylls H. Moore
Feb 26, 20182 min
Book Review, Little Fires Everywhere
We know at the beginning there is a family tragedy . In Little Fires Everywhere, Celeste Ng spends the rest of the novel introducing us...
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Phylls H. Moore
Feb 23, 20185 min
Reading, Writing, & Common Sense
According to Brene Brown, PhD, author and professor at University of Houston School of Social Work, "The ability to think past either/or...
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Phylls H. Moore
Feb 10, 20182 min
Birdie & Jude, Spring, 2018
It could have been a coincidence or maybe fate, but it certainly was serendipitous that Birdie Barnes found Judith Reynolds on the beach...
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Phylls H. Moore
Feb 7, 20182 min
I'm Not Really a Bird
It's Mardi Gras in Galveston and other places, but Galveston is where I live. It's common to go to a restaurant or the grocery store and...
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