From July 17, 2003 The other day on the radio, the topic of leisure suits came up. One of the DJs didn’t even know what they were. Mike couldn’t believe that anyone could not know what a leisure suit was, as he was a leisure suit aficionado. Yes, the uniformed man at work, or the […]
Welcome back
Hello and welcome back. It’s been a while. Everything has changed since I made my last original post in January 2014 (Ernie Pyle was a rerun). If you’ve just happened onto “One Wall at a Time,” my dear husband Mike died March 9, 2014. Although his health wasn’t the best, his death was unexpected. His […]
National Columnists Day? What is that?
From 2010 Today, April 18, marks a little known holiday called National Columnists Day that is celebrated by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists in memory of one of the most famous and loved columnists of all time — Ernie Pyle. Ernest Taylor Pyle was born in 1900 in Indiana and attended Indiana University. He […]
What I did last summer, and why I’m talking about it now
Some of you know that back in July of last year, I spent a week in Archer City taking a class called Literary Journalism through the University of North Texas. I received the Bess Whitehead Scott Scribes Scholarship for Older Adults that made that possible, and I’ll be forever grateful to them. I can’t do […]
Diabetes — No ‘feel-good’ ending to the story
The American Diabetes Association has proclaimed November as American Diabetes Month with the objective of raising awareness and understanding of diabetes, its consequences, management, and the prevention of type 2 diabetes. Nov. 14, was World Diabetes Day. Nov. 14 was chosen to celebrate the birthday of Sir Frederick Banting, one of the co-discoverers of insulin […]
Super Dolly
Mike has a way about fixing any shortcomings of tools, equipment or mechanical things, and if he doesn’t have the proper piece of equipment, he can make it. As he says it, this is his “ingenuity for inadequacies.” In that department, consider the piano dolly Mike made when we moved from Wichita Falls to the […]
Westerns Save the Day
“Life with Mike” has been on hold the past few weeks as Life with Mike in the house has been a little different. Mike had foot surgery recently. He had a bone spur that needed to be removed, and because he is a diabetic, everything just takes him a little extra time to heal. His […]
I Saw Nolan Ryan Pitch
Since it seems to be fashionable to have Throwback days on Facebook and other social sites, consider this throwback I found while going through papers not too long ago. It was written while I was on the Wichitan (Midwestern State University’s newspaper) staff in October, 1990 — 23 years ago! It was printed on pin-feed […]
Faux Finishing 101
My bathroom cabinet was at that awkward age — not old enough to be interesting or antique, but too old to be pretty. It was ordinary stained wood, with white paint splatters here and there from a paint job before we moved in. On top of that was a coating of that lovely combination of […]
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