•    •  January

I was down at the coffee house earlier when I overheard Mrs. Myrtle, our town’s resident old-as-the-hills maid telling her friends about her recent experience at the movies. Mrs. Myrtle had gone to see Courageous but it was sold out and she had to go with her second choice, which ended up being some kind of science fiction something or other. Mrs. Myrtle isn’t into

He was born April 7th, 1928 in Norman, Oklahoma and christened James Scott Baumgarner. He was four when his mother died. He and his two brothers were briefly sent to live with relatives. A couple years later, his father remarried and the kids were allowed to return home. It was far from an ideal reunion that deteriorated into domestic violence. James’ stepmother beat all the

He was born in Oklahoma in 1900. By the age of seven he'd discovered a love for drawing in general and cartoons in particular. He spent hours copying cartoons and adding his own words. During the next decade he won a couple cartoon contests and brought in spending money painting advertising jobs on barns and names on office doors, even using part of the hard

There once was a Pulpwood Queen who held a booklovers' dream. Authors and readers converging as one to celebrate story and have big fun. There were lions and tigers and clowns, oh my! with books upon books piled to the sky. There's none other like it no event dare compare to the Pulpwood Party and the Ball of Big Hair. If time allowed I'd give you more verse though surely each line would get steadily