Home At Last – Jan Sikes

August 17, 2020

August 17, 1985 – Home At Last

August 17th is a day I celebrate each year! It was such a HUGE day in my life, or start of my life with Rick Sikes. Although we'd met and fallen in love in 1970, it wasn't until 1985 that we were able to begin a life together. As Rick used to say, "Courtesy of …

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April 18, 2019March 3, 2026

A Story of Love and Time

A STORY OF LOVE AND TIME BY RICK SIKES I can’t tell you why men write and I have been thinking pretty hard on it these past few hours. It could be a man finds something inside of him so damn beautiful that he wants to get it down on paper before it slips …

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February 13, 2019

My Valentine Story – 1989

Happy Valentine's Day tomorrow everyone! If you have a partner, I hope you take time to let them know how much you love and appreciate them. One event in life can take them, or you, away. Image via Pixabay My Valentine Story starts on February 13, 1989. Rick and I were preparing for open heart …

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November 4, 2018March 3, 2026

Trying Something New

I attended an Author's Marketing Conference back in the summer and one of the workshops I participated in really piqued my interest. Story Rocket is a website created specifically to provide a place for TV and movie producers, agents, scouts, and directors to go looking for new material. I don't know about you, but I …

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November 4, 2018

Trying Something New

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September 2, 2018

Taking a break?

Or is it? Are you like me and feel that you have to work like a Trojan workhorse every day, day in and day out? But what happens when we do? I can only speak from my own personal experience. Creativity all but comes to a screeching halt I find it hard to shut my …

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December 9, 2017March 3, 2026

I ran across this – Reflection

I ran across this nugget today. And it prompted these thoughts... For everything that we did wrong... For everything that we got right... For all that we should have done... For all that we did do... For all the struggles... For all the victories... Through it all - We loved. We dared to love with …

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December 9, 2017

I ran across this – Reflection

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August 24, 2017

Special Anniversary Days!

August has always been a BIG month for me. Well, at least it has been since 1985. Rick Sikes, aka Luke Stone, left Leavenworth prison on August 15, 1985, and arrived on a Greyhound bus in Brownwood, Texas on August 17th. So, of course, it was a big day for Luke and Darlina after being …

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August 24, 2017March 3, 2026

Special Anniversary Days!

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