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Good Stories that Light the Way

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Good Stories that Light the Way intrigues international readers through its heartfelt stories about family, life lessons, and eventful recipes.

Interviews

UC TV Interview, January 2026

Universal City Television,UC TV,is a Public Education & Government (PEG) channel located in Universal City, Texas. In January 2026, they interviewed for Pat all about her book Good Stories that Light the Way.

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Pat’s interview with Jeff Crilley in 2025

“There is always light, if only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.”
-Amanda Gorman, u.s. poet

Stories

ODE TO MY SISTER KATHY WALDEN ON HER 60TH BIRTHDAY

By: Patricia Francis Good On this the occasion of your 60th birthday party, I wanted to reflect back, for a moment, on one of the many significant contributions of your life. Perhaps you have no idea how your life has affected others. The particular point I’m about to make is one that I have thought…

November 29, 2025
THE DUNGEON

by Patricia Elaine Francis Good One day, during my career with the Easter Seal Society I found myself in the worst possible situation that I had ever been in or ever would be again in my career. It started one day when my boss called from Dallas to tell me that Easters Seals had decided…

November 17, 2025
DADDY & THE HONOR GUARD

Friday Honor Guard Squad (Dad second from left) Dad with one of the last remaining Doolittle Raiders My father, Richard J. Francis a/k/a/ Dick Francis, joined the Friday Squad of the Ft. Sam Houston Cemetery (all-volunteer) Honor Guard (Memorial Service Detachment-MSD) on November 5, 2004 in San Antonio, Texas when he was 84 years old. …

October 27, 2025
DO I REALLY HAVE TO GO TO ANOTHER HIGH SCHOOL REUNION?

When I was out of high school 10 years, this wasn’t even a question. Of course I would go! I looked good and I had made a successful career out of what started just as volunteer work for the March of Dimes in high school. I was single, but that was cool at 28. For…

October 20, 2025
MISS GERTRUDE ELAINE HARRINGTON OF POVERTY GULCH

Her name was Gertrude Elaine Harrington, but to us kids, she was just Aunt Gertie. The most unique, unspoiled, innocent, funny and godly person I have ever known. She was one of a kind and a person that you could never think about without smiling. For those who knew her, there is absolutely no question that…

October 13, 2025
DO TREES CRY WHEN THEIR LEAVES FALL?

It’s December in Texas and I have been watching leaves turn bright red, yellow and soft brown for weeks. But, now the wind is taking the leaves away from their mother trees and I feel the sorrow of the trees’ loss. When I was a child, one of my fondest memories happened when the leaves…

October 6, 2025
PAT’S STORY – THE EARLY YEARS

From left to right: John, Janet, Pam, Pat, Kathy, Mike, Millie, Dick Francis When I was a little girl, I thought I would live forever. I thought my parents would live forever and everybody around me was expected to live a very long, long time. At a fairly early age, I came to know the…

September 29, 2025
DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE PIG AND THE LAWYER?

At the age of 38, I didn’t realize that marrying a trial lawyer would lead to another one of life’s great experiences, owning my first pet. During a jury trial, my husband accepted a bet from the opposing attorney that if he won the case he would take a piglet from the litter of her…

September 22, 2025
COVID STORIES WORTH REMEMBERING

I had an experience of being mis-diagnosed and ended up in a COVID-ICU Unit. But, my story pales by comparison to the stories worth remembering that I heard from the Covid ICU nurses. During this Covid Pandemic, I had been careful to follow the CDC guidelines and quarantined at home. Taking the vaccines had relieved…

September 15, 2025
STANDING UP FOR NAVY CAPTAIN BRETT E. CROZIER

Walking through my living room on April 2, 2020, I caught a television news story from Guam. Sailors onboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, a nuclear aircraft carrier, were standing at attention on deck. Then I heard clangs of a bell ringing over a public address system followed by this announcement: “Captain, United States Navy ……

September 8, 2025