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79-year-old Texas music icon still blowin’ and goin’ in the dance hall her father built

My year of driving a school bus

My daughter has no Mexican clothes. We discovered this when she came home announcing that her school would be celebrating Mexican Independence Day, Diez y Seis de Septembre. “I need to wear something Mexican,” Sierra said as I flipped through the hangers looking for a bright fabric, embroidery, ribbons. I look at her, 7 years…

“You’ve got the ladder upside down,” one of the volunteers told me. “And you’re pretty lucky you hung up there at the side of the roof.”

I think Blackie’s mischievous personality blindsided Grandmere