by Bernadette Nason | May 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
Today we said goodbye to Minx the Magnificent, our beloved, long-haired, black and white cat. Overcoming kidney failure, high blood pressure, and his own appalling standards of personal hygiene, it was cancer that finally got him. We thank Dr. Baker for all her hard...
by Bernadette Nason | May 1, 2013 | Uncategorized
As I sit in Pep Boys Auto Repair getting 4 new tires on my car, I’m reminded of how this happened. In early March, my fabulous car-guy, (Nasser from Uptown Auto) said, “You need four new tires.” “I’m going to Denton for the Tejas Storytelling Festival,” I told him....
by Bernadette Nason | Apr 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
I love sardines. I grew up eating sardines, particularly the tinned variety, and loved them. “Sardines on Toast” was a family favourite. The tins didn’t have a ring-pull like they do now; they had a key and when you wound the key, the metal lid gradually wrapped...
by Bernadette Nason | Apr 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
Six years ago, the morning I heard of my mother’s death, I went walking in my neighborhood to try and calm myself. Her death was sudden; unexpected. I was about a mile from my house when two huge blue herons flew overhead, landed in a tree above my head, and watched...
by Bernadette Nason | Apr 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
In my mother’s honor, here is her own story about leaving home for the very first time. World War II put paid to Mum’s chances of going to university, at least temporarily. Desperate to get away from a difficult and traumatic family life in the north of England, she...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 15, 2012 | Uncategorized
I opened A Christmas Carol at Bastrop Opera House last night to a small but generous audience. They were involved and engaged, and genuinely seemed affected by it. I took two bows and think I could’ve taken three. It was thrilling to tell the tale on that old stage...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 14, 2012 | Uncategorized
The most memorable part of Christmas 1984 for me was Band Aid and the song, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” http://youtu.be/to652Gy9blI Although I’d been determined to do so, I eventually chose not to stay in Tripoli over Christmas. The inability to find decent...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 12, 2012 | Uncategorized
“DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. “Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. “Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ “Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? “VIRGINIA O’HANLON.“115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.” VIRGINIA, your little friends...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
When temperatures flirt around the freezing mark in Austin, Texas, it’s a big deal. It’s headline news. Brits tend to laugh at this as, in their homeland, it’s flirtin’ around flippin’ freezin’ for much of the winter. For British kids, however, snow on Christmas Day...
by Bernadette Nason | Dec 11, 2012 | Uncategorized
ANON has written many exquisite poems. Here’s one of my favorites, taken from “The Family Read-Aloud CHRISTMAS TREASURY” (Alice Low and Marc Brown) Winds through the olive treesSoftly did blow,Round little BethlehemLong, Long ago. Sheep on the hillside layWhiter than...
