Posted in authors, blogging, Disney, Family, Fiction, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, laughter, reading, trivia, Uncategorized, weird facts, words, writing, tagged astrology, birthstones, Donald Duck, Elvis Presley, facts, history, John Wayne, June, Mythology, national nude day, nude, rock and roll, south, southern, summer, trivia on June 10, 2019| 10 Comments »
Yes, it’s HOT!! The long hot, sweaty days of summer have arrived. I know, I know, it’s still officially spring, but tell that to the weather. There is no mercy here in Vicksburg after about 11:00. June has come in with a vengeance. (more…)
Posted in authors, blogging, books, Family, food, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, success, Uncategorized, words, writers, writing, tagged book shelves, boxes, categories, categorizing, classifications, classify, compartments, files, filing, gadgets, groups, Home Depot, new-fangled, outside the box, random, shelves, Shopping, supermarket on May 13, 2019| 6 Comments »
Have you ever noticed that people like to put things into categories? It’s just human nature I think to want to classify stuff into known categories. Everything needs to go into a box, or a file, or on a shelf. Ever look at something and wonder what the heck it is? If someone tells you it’s a new-fangled object designed to do thus and such, your brain automatically wants to file that information into a group of knowns. That’s usually when people say something like, “Oh, it’s sort of like a thingamajig?” We ask because we have an inherent need to relate the new thing to an old thing. (more…)
Posted in authors, Baer House Inn, blogging, books, breakfast, Christmas, Family, Fiction, food, grammar, health, hill billy, Holidays, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, sports, travel, Uncategorized, Vicksburg, words, writing, tagged chicken, chicken dinner, chitlins, cracklins, Faulkner, food, football, Halloween, hunting, hunting season, kale, Kansas, kumbachu, Mississippi, pork rinds, quinoa, unexplained, weird, Welty on March 4, 2019| 12 Comments »
I’ve lived in Mississippi for almost 4 years now and there are still some things that I just can’t comprehend. Mostly I love the laid back way of life and southern hospitality. I love the charming small town feel of a lot of places in this great state. Other things, I don’t get. At all. (more…)
Posted in Baer House Inn, blogging, breakfast, Christmas, Family, friends, Holidays, humor, Jansen Schmidt, musical theater, singing, Uncategorized, Vicksburg, writing, tagged acappella, choir, christmas music, funny christmas songs, funny holiday songs, funny songs, mens acappella, mens choir, music, music video, straight no chaser, video, Youtube on December 24, 2018| 12 Comments »
Happy Christmas Eve! I hope you’ve all got plans to be with family and loved ones this evening and tomorrow. I’ll be enjoying some peace and quiet here at the inn. (more…)
Posted in Family, Fiction, food, friends, health, Holidays, humor, innkeeping, Jansen Schmidt, mowing lawn, travel, Uncategorized, vacation, writing, tagged delivery drivers, drivers, employers, FedEx, garbage pick-up, gifts, housekeeping, minimum wage, money, post office, random, restaurants, salary, tipping, tips, UPS, USPS, wages, wait staff, waiters on December 3, 2018| 8 Comments »
I recently had a very intellectual debate with myself about the whole phenomenon known as tipping. Now, I’ve always believed that tipping should be done when service is over and above what might “normally” be expected. Except, of course, restaurant servers, I tip them regardless of their service because I know that they only get paid like $2 an hour and they rely on tips to even make a living. And that is where I run into a problem. (more…)
Posted in Autumn, blogging, books, cowboys, desert, deserts, Family, Fiction, friends, Jansen Schmidt, reading, travel, Uncategorized, vacation, writing, tagged AQHA, Arizona, Babbitt Ranches, cattle, cattle ranches, cattle round-up, cowboys, cows, debut novel, fiction, fiction writing, Flagstaff, horses, Northern Arizona, On Common Ground, quarter horses, ranches, ranching, romance fiction, romance writers on October 8, 2018| 13 Comments »
Over the past few weeks I’ve been introducing you to the main players in my upcoming release On Common Ground. In case you haven’t seen it yet, here is the cover.
I don’t know about you, but I love it!
Posted in authors, blogging, Family, Fiction, friends, humor, Jansen Schmidt, redneck, success, travel, Uncategorized, vacation, writing, tagged crosswalks, crowds, giants, heels, masses, sarcasm, scooters, shopping carts, short people, silly, strollers, strolling, toes, walking, wheelchairs on October 1, 2018| 8 Comments »
How many of you have ever found yourself in a situation where you have to walk with the masses, maybe with your elbows squeezed against your sides so don’t accidentally hook arms, bump elbows or whatnot?
