Pauline Baird Jones

  • I Needed To Get it Out of my Head – Why I Wrote THE KEY

    The Key was never meant to be a book. It wasn’t meant to be anything. I’d been OD-ing on Stargate Atlantis and got an idea for the show—yeah, total fan fiction—that I could NOT get out of my head. In desperation, I decided to just write it down. Put it on paper and GET IT…

  • Read Me a Story…

    One of my favorite memories is being read to by either my mom or my dad. They have very different reading styles. My mom went for the dramatic, doing the voices and the drama. My dad had this endearing semi-monotone, altered only by volume. We all loved both styles, though I think Dad got a…

  • Do You “Heart” Disney, too?

    I wish I was there, sitting on one of those rocks. Even though the adult me knows they are hard, even with the “cushion of age” on my tush. And that stretching a swim suit over that cushion is…well…yeah. I blame it on Walt Disney. Think about all the things his movies made seem magical…

  • “To Endure is Greater than to Dare…”

    “To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out the hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it- who can say this is not greatness? ” William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) I was walking past the hubs computer and this photo caught my eye, so I waited…

  • Happy Birthday, USA!

    I recently returned from my high school reunion – and plan to blog about that next Monday – but on our country’s birthday my thoughts have turned to my roots, to where I began. Though the hubs and I live in a big city now, we both grew up in small towns. The flag, apple…

  • More Romantic Rides and Reads.

    Last week, I posted one of the hubs photos of the Houston Livestock Show Skyride. Then I saw this one and fell for it, too. It draws the eye into the story, hopefully like a good book draws you into that story. The hubs forms his Flickr sets into a picture story, inviting you to…

  • Romantic Rides and Reads

    I love browsing the hubs’ Flickr page for fun “Scenic Route” photos to share for my Thursday meme. I think he has a great eye for a great shot. If you check in here at all, then you know I love romance and the romantic potential is this shot just grabbed me. It kind of…

  • The Summer of My Reunion O.O

    So, this month I will be attending my [deep breath here] 40th high school reunion. It’s not like I didn’t know I’m old as dirt. I know my age. But I hadn’t done the math on how long I’d been out of high school, so it was kind of a shock when the email showed…

  • Bass-ically, We’re Cool. With a Giveaway. 🙂

    I’m changing things up a bit for the summer. As I previously mentioned, I’m going to dial back the blogging to twice a week as The Grandma Project takes front and center. I still want to do my “Scenic Route” posts with the hubs photos, but my “Wishing for a Wormhole” meme will be on hiatus until…

  • Take Me to the Moon

    I was browsing through Amazon seeing if I could find a copy of Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh for less than $250—hey, don’t judge, he’s really cute when he’s not sporting the scarecrow getup—when I ran across another blast-from-the-past-movie called Moon Pilot. I couldn’t afford Dr. Syn, so I went for Moon Pilot,…