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By Terri Schlichenmeyer Sometimes, your entire life feels like a recipe for drama. Oh, you really hate it and you’d like to wipe your plate clean of it all, but that’s never gonna happen. No matter what’s cooking around you, there’s always an extra ingredient to increase the tension: raw emotion, sliced egos, boiling tempers, [...]
Your customers have been good to you. First and foremost, throughout the past few years, they’ve stuck with you and that means a lot. You’ve survived the bad times together, and that’s allowed you to become friends; you share triumphs, you ask about family, you offer support when it’s needed. You might even get together [...]
This month, you’ve decided you need a whole new look. Your hair and wardrobe are out of date, so you’re getting a cut-and-style and a fresh wardrobe, shoes and all. You’ve got an appointment for a mani-pedi, a dermatologist, dentist, and – no more glasses! – you’re getting some of those colored contacts. But there’s [...]
By Terri Schlichenmeyer This week, two of your friends broke the news: they’re pregnant. One’s due in October, the other in November. Heavy sigh. It’s not exactly that you’re anti-kid. No, you like kids … as long as they’re not yours, and you’re pretty firm on that. And in the new book, I Can Barely Take Care [...]
By Terri Schlichenmeyer Not in a hundred years. There was just no way. From the minute you saw her, you knew everything you needed to know about that woman. She was a schemer, she was ghetto, she was the worst kind of liar, and a friendship between the two of you was not going to happen [...]
Testimony from the riveting trial is the backbone of this new based on true crime release from Blazing Star Books and Elaine Fields Smith. Taken directly from the Genaro Camacho, Jr.’s capital murder court transcript, One Wrong Move – Can Kill is filled with shocking facts. Reference material consisting of over 1,500 pages of court transcript obtained [...]
By Terri Schlichenmeyer You’ve been practicing your autograph. You write it with your right hand, then you try it with your left. You do it carefully, slowly, then you scribble it and that looks better. Someday, you’ll probably have to sign autographs quick so there’s no sense in making things too neat. That’s because you’re [...]
The Big Read Dallas will unite the city behind reading Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, this April, thanks to the Friends of the Dallas Public Library, D Magazine, D Academy, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. It’s also the 60th anniversary for this book, selected because of its themes of courage, anti-censorship, [...]
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