Jamie and Melissa preview TCU's game against Oklahoma, and Jamie chats with Crimson and Cream Machine's managing editor, Jack Shields, to get an Oklahoma perspective on the matchup.

Ep. 30: Oklahoma Preview, Interview with Jack Shields

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The Sheila Stories #028 -- Last Beach Day 
In the final Sheila story, Last Beach Day, the narrator Thomas finally enters the stage on the beach at Cape May.
Well, my friends, as I said in the last episode, we’ve come a long way in the series, all the way from Queensland in 1935 to the present.
I have enjoyed the journey.
I hope you have as well. If so, please share The Sheila Stories with your friends and family. If you know a young girl who could use a guiding light, a story with a mix of adventure and romance, buy her a copy of The Sheila Stories on Amazon.
As for me, I’ll go back to writing novels with the goal of entertaining readers. You can always find my work on Amazon. There are several authors by the name of Patrick Kelly. It’s easier to find me by typing The Joe Robbins Series into the search bar.
To keep in touch, follow me on Facebook (@PatrickKellyWriter) or come to my website at patrickkellystories.com.
I wish you an adventurous and romantic 2020.
As always, on today’s episode, we had
Music by Cinemedia
Sound effects by noisecreations and zapsplat.com
Thank you, friends
Bye, now.
 
Do you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar.
Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com
 
About the Sheila Stories
If you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.
Here is a quick overview: 
The framework is a classic story within a story:
The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
But Sheila is no ordinary woman.
At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.
At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, Sheila
Befriends aboriginal farm workers.
Learns to shoot a rifle.
Almost drowns.
Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.
Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.
Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.
Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.
Drives an ambulance.
Risks her life to save another.
Helps disabled servicemen.
Marries a soldier.
Moves to America.
Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.
Teaches patience to a child.
And opens a surf shop.
  
I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.
Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.
Fight for a worthy cause.
Fall in love.
Experience the heartbreak of loss.
Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.
You'll have the time of your life.
 
About the Storyteller
Pat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.
Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing at his website:
https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

Sheila Stories -- #28  -- Last Beach Day with storyteller Pat Kelly

The Sheila Stories #027 -- The Whole World 
In the story The Whole World, the narrator Thomas reveals a significant mystery of the series at the insistence of his daughter April.    (Note: This is the penultimate Sheila Story.)
Do you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar.
Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com
 
About the Sheila Stories
If you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.
Here is a quick overview: 
The framework is a classic story within a story:
The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
But Sheila is no ordinary woman.
At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.
At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, Sheila
Befriends aboriginal farm workers.
Learns to shoot a rifle.
Almost drowns.
Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.
Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.
Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.
Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.
Drives an ambulance.
Risks her life to save another.
Helps disabled servicemen.
Marries a soldier.
Moves to America.
Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.
Teaches patience to a child.
And opens a surf shop.
  
I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.
Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.
Fight for a worthy cause.
Fall in love.
Experience the heartbreak of loss.
Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.
You'll have the time of your life.
 
About the Storyteller
Pat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.
Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing at his website:
https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

Sheila Stories - #27  -- The Whole World -- with storyteller Pat Kelly

The Sheila Stories #026 -- Unfamiliar Field 
The story Unfamiliar Field takes place in 1968. During the story, Sheila and Neal have a debate with their daughter Sandra about the war in Viet Nam.
Do you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar.
Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com
 
About the Sheila Stories
If you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.
Here is a quick overview: 
The framework is a classic story within a story:
The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
But Sheila is no ordinary woman.
At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.
At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, Sheila
Befriends aboriginal farm workers.
Learns to shoot a rifle.
Almost drowns.
Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.
Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.
Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.
Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.
Drives an ambulance.
Risks her life to save another.
Helps disabled servicemen.
Marries a soldier.
Moves to America.
Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.
Teaches patience to a child.
And opens a surf shop.
  
I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.
Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.
Fight for a worthy cause.
Fall in love.
Experience the heartbreak of loss.
Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.
You'll have the time of your life.
 
About the Storyteller
Pat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.
Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing at his website:
https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

Sheila Stories - #26  -- Unfamiliar Field -- with storyteller Pat Kelly

The Sheila Stories #025 -- Ten Percent 
The story Ten Percent is about reunions. Sheila travels to Darling Downs in Queensland to visit Tom, Hannah, and their children. Once there, she returns to a site where she almost drowned and remembers a dream that never came true.
Do you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar.
Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com
 
About the Sheila Stories
If you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.
Here is a quick overview: 
The framework is a classic story within a story:
The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
But Sheila is no ordinary woman.
At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.
At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, Sheila
Befriends aboriginal farm workers.
Learns to shoot a rifle.
Almost drowns.
Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.
Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.
Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.
Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.
Drives an ambulance.
Risks her life to save another.
Helps disabled servicemen.
Marries a soldier.
Moves to America.
Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.
Teaches patience to a child.
And opens a surf shop.
  
I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.
Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.
Fight for a worthy cause.
Fall in love.
Experience the heartbreak of loss.
Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.
You'll have the time of your life.
 
About the Storyteller
Pat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.
Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing at his website:
https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

Sheila Stories - #25  -- Ten Percent -- with storyteller Pat Kelly

The Sheila Stories #024 -- The Bandstand 
In the story The Bandstand, Sheila’s got game—a new bathing suit and a sudden interest in a lawyer from Delaware named Neal Russo.
Do you love The Sheila Stories? Tell your friends. They can find the full collection on Amazon US. For those in Australia, click for Amazon here. Other markets? Go to Amazon and type The Sheila Stories by Patrick Kelly into the search bar.
Read the story in its entirety without commentary at patrickkellystories.com
 
About the Sheila Stories
If you like historical fiction, World War II novels, adventures that take place in Australia, or a good old-fashioned love story, then The Sheila Stories Podcast is for you.
Here is a quick overview: 
The framework is a classic story within a story:
The outer layer is formed by a widower—Thomas—and his two young daughters, Natalie and April. Thomas is concerned because the girls don’t have a strong female figure in their lives, so he starts telling them the Sheila Stories, a series of adventures involving an Australian woman in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.
But Sheila is no ordinary woman.
At the age of eighteen, she comes into some money and leaves a comfortable home in Sydney to buy a sheep farm in Queensland.
At that’s just the beginning, for during the course of the stories, Sheila
Befriends aboriginal farm workers.
Learns to shoot a rifle.
Almost drowns.
Fights dingos and a poisonous snake.
Buys a ten thousand acre cattle station.
Dances to big band music in Toowoomba.
Joins the Australian Women’s Army Service in WW II.
Drives an ambulance.
Risks her life to save another.
Helps disabled servicemen.
Marries a soldier.
Moves to America.
Runs a bed and breakfast in Cape May, New Jersey.
Teaches patience to a child.
And opens a surf shop.
  
I invite you to put your cares aside for thirty minutes a week and join me on a great journey.
Strike out to find your fortune at the age of eighteen.
Fight for a worthy cause.
Fall in love.
Experience the heartbreak of loss.
Laugh. Cry. Feel the salt air on your face as you ride your surfboard on the beaches of Sydney.
You'll have the time of your life.
 
About the Storyteller
Pat lives in Austin. He likes to cook dinner with his wife, listen to any kind of good music, and take long walks in beautiful places.
Pat is the author of four Joe Robbins novels and a time travel novel titled Carter's Last Race. You can find Pat’s work on Amazon under his author name Patrick Kelly. Learn more about Pat’s writing at his website:
https://www.patrickkellystories.com/

Ep. 30: Oklahoma Preview, Interview with Jack Shields

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