Tessie D

I stopped yesterday before I got to this part.  I wish I’d hadn’t.  I wish I’d written it down already. Momma and I got up early on Monday morning to get Prince ready since, before Daddy could take Prince to the sale, he’d needed his shots.  Momma got the medicine from the refrigerator and drew…

So, let me pick up where I left off.  By the time I got Daddy home from the carnival on Saturday night, it was already dark. I felt weary and exhausted. I know that I didn’t have any reason to feel embarrassed about Daddy but I still did. I couldn’t shake the feeling that I’d…

Looking back, I can’t believe I’m even the same person who wrote that earlier post. I was so optimistic. How is it possible that so much can change in just a week? I left school on Friday afternoon—excited about the festival and carnival, but so much has happened since then.  I am not sure even…

It’s Thursday and only 2 days until Spring Break! We’re not gonna go anywhere, but I’ll get to sleep in. And 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, peanut festival in May. Ours is the St. Patrick’s Day Festival…

I live on a farm outside of town in rural Texas. Our house sits between red crepe myrtles and live oak trees that rain small, almond-shaped leaves year-round. Behind the house is the pasture where we have cows and the horse, Prince, Momma and Daddy bought me for my 11th birthday.  Before we moved to…

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

I suppose you might be wondering why I’m choosing to sit in the library at lunch rather than sit outside with friends.  It’s not that I don’t have friends—because I do. But, still, even though we moved here when I was 8 years old, I still don’t always feel like I fit in. It’s hard…

Hello, Out There… I suppose I should continue to tell you more about myself.  I live 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 there, that’s where I’m at.  There’s a small town in…

I guess this would be a good time to introduce myself. My name is Tessie, and I live in a small town in the Middle of Nowhere, Texas, with my mom, dad, and my younger sister, Abigail. We moved here when I was in the third grade after Daddy retired from the Army.  Momma and…