“Yeah, I read your blog every time,” the younger woman sitting next to me said. “Sometimes it’s good stuff and I print a copy of it and save it. Other times, it’s just babbling.”
I burst into laughter when she said that, but she wasn’t finished. “What’s with all this country music? Don’t you ever listen to anything other than country? You need to branch out.”
At this I protested, but she had another comment. “I can tell with the first sentence if it’s a good day or if you’re out there rambling around in outer space.”
Carmen is a beta follower for this blog, but of course I have no way of tracking whether she reads the entries or doesn’t so I was really pleased to hear that she does. Carmen is the granddaughter of one of the four most important women in my life, Willie Flora, and I’ve known her since she was a little girl in elementary school. I had her email address and invited her to follow along with me when I sent the original invitations. She accepted and now here we were almost two years later chatting and eating brisket in a booth at Dozier’s Barbecue in Fulshear, Texas in the middle of a Saturday afternoon.
She is a Reader. A Follower. And she had no reluctance to call it like she sees it. I’d love to take credit for some of that bravado but I’m afraid she learned at the tables of two masters, her mother and her grandmother. I’ve had a few lessons at those tables myself.
Good stuff or babbling? A new bar is raised. To print or not to print? That’s the question.
I'll Call It Like I See It 
love the blog
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Thanks so much! I appreciate your reading!
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There is no such thing as too many posts about country music! 🙂
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I feel you peacelovegreatcountrymusic! 🙂
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Yep the bar’s been raised! Now you know you’ll be held accountable for all your writing. Sounds like she’ll keep you on your toes, Sheila. Oh, and if you didn’t reference country music now and again I’d worry about you…I really would 😀
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Thank you so much for encouraging me in my country music musings, and I will tell you I miss my Country Legends 97.1 on your FM dial in Houston! When I came upstairs to my little transistor radio in my office a few minutes ago, I was trying to figure out how I could do better than the jazzy modern country music station I listen to when I’m in South Carolina. Woe is me. Where is Garth Brooks when I need him? 🙂
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I’m not a country music fan either, but I always find something to take away from your posts. Keep it up.
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Thanks Bob, you’re the best and I never forget it!!
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Sheial – I hate that you were that close and I missed you! I work in Brookshire. Next time you are down this way let me know. I would love to take you on a tour and have lunch! Maybe Grandma Anne could join us. Maybe I could even twist Daddy’s arm!
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Hi Heather, would love to see you when we head that direction! I’m so glad Anne has moved back and is close to all of her family – I think that’s awesome. I hope her things arrived without too many problems. Would love to see your dad, too. Thanks for hanging in there with us – you’ve been one of our first readers, too, and I appreciate it!
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