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"True Confessions and Mild Obsessions"
by
Frances Giles

Email: fegiles@yahoo.com
Columns

  • Quarantine madness. Let's dance!!! 6-1-20


  • Sour Notes and Sisterly Shenanigans 5-17-16
  • Playing Chicken at the A&P or Duck, Duck, Goose 9-15-15
  • Bats in the Belfry 8-13-15
  • Driving Miss Sissy or No Brakes!! No Brakes!!!! 8-1-15
  • There's Something Fishy About This Dish 7-8-15
  • All That Glitters Is Not Gold 6-21-15
  • Dilutions of Grandeur 6-13-15
  • It's Just An Expression 6-6-15
  • By the Light of the Silv'ry Moon 4-25-15
  • Famous People I Have Rubbed Elbows With 4-14-15
  • That's My Mom 1-18-15


  • The Big Bang Theory 9-24-14
  • Poodle Socks and Grade School Frocks 4-15-14
  • There's No Place Like Home 1-16-14
  • Texas Teatime 10-28-13
  • Come to Me, My Melon-choly Babies 9-24-13
  • The Boys of Summer 8-14-13
  • Indecisive Summer Footwear Blues 7-1-13
  • Ghostly Chalk Children of Crystal Beach 6-10-13
  • Meeting Miss Rita 5-9-13
  • When the Worm Turns or Rites of Spring 4-7-13
  • Straighten Up and Fly Right 3-5-13
  • My Granny's Apron Strings 2-7-13
  • Yuccaing it Up In the Big Bend 1-13-13


  • Absence Meant I Got No Fondant 12-19-12
  • Catastrophic Coiffures 12-2-12
  • Big Wind From Winnetka a Mere Breeze Compared To the Big Blow In Beaumont 11-9-12
  • Riders Of the Purple Sage In Our Little Purple Boots 10-19-12
  • Honor Among Thieves, Stealing Mrs. Nita's Pears 10-5-12
  • Beaumont to Caldwell With a Boogie Woogie Beat 9-14-12
  • Blind Drunk in Beaumont 8-17-12
  • My Brief Stroll Down the Tobacco Road 7-23-12
  • Frances Giles

    Frances Giles was born in Beaumont and spent what she naively thought was a relatively normal childhood before departing for nursing school at age 19. She had a four decade career as an RN, moved to Austin a couple of years after graduation and has had scads of interesting, fulfilling, quirky and downright bizarre life experiences that she wouldn't trade for anything. She came late to writing after a fortuitous e-mail contact with Barclay Gibson who put her in contact with Texas Escapes, jump starting a rich and rewarding phase in her sunset years. She is grateful to them for putting up with her efforts at stringing words together in a more or less coherent form, thereby unleashing her on an unsuspecting reading public. She tends to write in a humorous vein (often funny only to her) and has never met a pun she didn't like.


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