After a summer weekend babysitting my wonderful granddaughter, I broadcast with Sandy Lawrence and Aimee Ravichandran on Author Talk Monday with super energetic Judith Briles from Denver. We talked about her new book How To Create A $1,000,000 Speech and Read More …
Melinda and I have been married thirty-four years. She’s a Houston native, attended St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church her whole life, and graduated from its school. Hurricane Harvey devastated the church. The entire campus was flooded. The chapel has to be Read More …
We thought we were coming to Amarillo for a boring wedding reception, not an adventure. We were wrong. We thought it started off well. My son David and I drove up from Houston. Amarillo Partying We thought it got better, Read More …
I’m watching the Houston Astros. They win with football scores these days. 19 to 5. 10 to 2. It reminds me of when my son Will played baseball in the seventh grade. Big kid ball. Hard throws. Fast bats. Dangerous Read More …
My Dad David C. Little, my dad, served in World War II like many in your family. When he got out he never talked about it. At least until the ’70’s, when he’d sit out in the backyard with a Read More …
Chicken and Comics Last weekend my sons, Will and David, and I went to Austin, Texas for the American MotoGP. When we got into town Saturday our first stop was Lucy’s for fried devil eggs and beer. We then stopped at Read More …
Are your ears burning? I took your book to school and told kids I went to middle school with the author! I have several kids who want to write books! They were/are impressed…so you are inspiring young kids too!! I Read More …
Melinda has posted a new blog about winter today. Winter is coming. As much as I love fall I hate winter. I wrote about my love for fall in a recent blog. I live in Houston so my dislike of Read More …
As well as writing such lengthy literary classics as Anna Karenina and War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy turned his hand to writing stories for younger readers. Most of the works in his collection Fables and Fairy Tales, translated here by Leo Read More …
Melinda’s latest blog on our new girl and our family’s week. She knows how to tell the story! You can read all her blogs at melindalittleblogs.com. It’s a Girl! This week I met the most adorable little girl. She is Read More …
Melinda writes about surprises and waiting on her blog: Waiting for Surprises I have never been good at waiting. I am that person who turns to the last few pages of a novel to see how things end even though Read More …
I have heard it is fall. I have seen photos posted on Facebook by friends showing the leaves changing colors in other parts of the country. I have heard rumors there is a general election coming up, which is another Read More …
My dad took me everywhere with him. I’d run home and sit around waiting for him to get home. Now that I’m an adult I wonder how he worked all day and then did so much with me. I wonder, Read More …