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  • Make your Easter Sweeter!

    By: Patricia Francis Good      Thank you so much for being a subscriber! I’m so happy you’re here and tuning into my stories. 🙂 For my loyal subscribers, I’m planning on releasing monthly cooking demonstration videos. Stay Subscribed for More! Want to follow along? Check out the recipes below! Pat’s 3 Easter Recipes Pat Good’s Three…

  • 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.   …

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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 ……

  • HOW I FOUND MY HERO AND FRIEND, SISTER ANGELA MURDAUGH

    I met Sister Angela Murdaugh (Roman Catholic Franciscan Sister of Mary)in the onion fields of Raymondville, Texas over 40 years ago. She wastrying to win the trust of migrant workers to start a freestanding birthingcenter so they wouldn’t have to deliver their babies in the onion fieldsanymore. I was a field representative for the March…