SanLeon.net languished until February 2006, when I started writing Glove Box Stories. Forty-eight short stories later, I stopped writing to devote my energies to another endeavor, and my last posting here was January 21, 2007.

In the eighteen months since, much has changed. My husband and I started a business, an online flag store—Flags Bay—and we moved. Previously we lived in San Leon, Texas, on Galveston Bay, and now we live on Canyon Lake, a resort area on the southern edge of the Texas Hill Country.

The Daily Flag is an adjunct website to Flags Bay. At The Daily Flag, I write about flags, flag etiquette and protocol, flags on postage stamps, the Boy Scouts, and anything else that interests me. I love writing at The Daily Flag, but I’ve missed the adventure that comes with writing fiction, and I am ready to write at Glove Box Stories again.

Glove Box Stories has a new look. Convinced (finally) by my husband, that a smart new theme would let him do the things I wanted, I chose RockinBizRed 2.0 by Nathan Rice. And as long as I was changing to a new WordPress theme, I knew I wanted to use a photograph of an open glove box in the header.

Aj Martin Bocola—Marty—of Automania in New Braunfels, Texas, gave Larry and me the run of the showroom, which was filled with gorgeous vintage automobiles. Choosing among the photographs that Larry took was a hard decision, but I kept coming back to the dashboard shown above—from a 1956 Chevrolet—which Larry tweaked a bit at my request.

So I’m back. To kick things off for Glove Box Stories, here are five new stories, which I shall post two hours apart. After this, I plan to post at least one new story a week, maybe more. Enjoy!

I’ve been away from SanLeon.net and the Glove Box Stories because I have been working on another project. This week my husband, Larry, and I took the wraps off our new internet business—FLAGS BAY. We started a flag store!

The part of FLAGS BAY that has been keeping me busy is the blog that opens our website: The Daily Flag. Larry and I are both writing and posting each day, with original content and links to stories in the news about flags, and anything else we think is interesting.

If I were as organized as my husband, I would offer you a list of The Daily Flag articles I intend to write over the next few months. All I can promise is that I will try very hard to make them something that you will want to come read each day.

Now that I can catch my breath, I’ll soon be back with a variety of Glovebox Stories too. I’m ready to tell you more about Badger Creek and the people who live there.

Remember FLAGS BAY—www.flagsbay.com if you need a U.S. or state flag, and stop by for the news at The Daily Flag.

The Mission is a complete work of fiction. Only the airplanes are real.