So much has changed in just a week. Sigh. So much has happened since then that I don’t even know how to start.   I left school on Friday afternoon and was excited about the festival and carnival. Saturday, everything was going great. It was one of those perfect spring days. I drove into town…

It’s Thursday, and only 2 days until Spring Break. It’s the St. Patrick’s Day Festival this weekend. Every small town in Texas has some sort of festival — peach and melon festivals in August, a peanut festival in May. Ours is the St. Patrick’s Day Festival in March, the first weekend of spring break.  Ours…

It’s almost Spring Break. Nothing is really happening at school — everyone is in limbo waiting until the break so the teachers and students are all just going through the motions until Friday. Some of my friends are going camping at the lake next week. Monica is going to visit her grandmother in Dallas for…

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Here’s a fun fact about me: my last name is Despare. (I probably shouldn’t be telling the whole world my name, but I don’t think anyone is going to read this anyway.) Anyway, I learned over the weekend that my family goes back all the way to the Alamo. I was with Daddy getting breakfast…

I suppose you might be wondering why I’m choosing to sit in the library at lunch instead of sitting outside with friends. It’s not that I don’t have friends — because I do. But even though we moved here when I was eight years old, I still don’t always feel like I fit in. It’s…

Hello, out there… I suppose I should continue to tell you more about myself. I’m in Texas. If you drew a dot in the dead center of the state — the part in the middle, away from any city, where it looks like nobody would live — that’s where I’m at. There’s a small town…

My name is Tessie, and I live in a small town in the middle of Nowhere, Texas, with my mom, my dad, and my younger sister, Annie. We moved here when I was in the third grade after Daddy retired from the Army. Momma and Daddy used the money Grandaddy Bud left us to buy…

Welcome to my online diary. My name is Tessie.