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Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love; they depart to teach us about loss. ~Erica Jong I lost one of my walking buddies last week. Roxie lived across the road from me. She came to her family when she was a pup and already bigger than many dogs are when they are grown. A fuzzy furry sweatheart. …
Meet my neighbor donkeys. Hannah and Joseph. Aren’t they cute? Have you met any donkeys? These are shy little guys or maybe simply stand-offish. Or maybe they always simply know I don’t have treats with me. 🙂 As some of you know, I just got back from a writers retreat where my agents had arranged speakers to encourage and inspire …
I don’t have the seeds for this old tree I spotted out in Monterey Bay. It was such an ancient tree that the garden keepers have built a frame to support its branches. That’s loving a tree. Nobody was around for me to ask what the …
Have you had fun guessing the seeds? This is the last one. I’ll be drawing for the winners this weekend. Two winners or who knows? Maybe three. And remember you don’t have to have the right guess to enter. Just say you don’t know the way Gail and Annette did on Sunday’s post. But some of you did guess my Sunday …
While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, winter and summer, and day and night shall not cease. (Genesis 8:22) It’s seedtime here again with a new one for you to guess. I’m making you work hard to maybe win a couple of books, but I hope you’re having fun too. This might be another not so easy …
“With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.” ~Ella Wheeler Wilcox Are you tired of seed mysteries yet? When I walked this afternoon, I kept seeing more and more seeds. I could keep this up for another month of two, but I won’t. The giveaway contest ends on October 31. Then I’ll draw …
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. (Genesis 1:11 NKJ) Just as I thought, most all of you guessed last week’s “seed.” They were black walnuts. A few of you …
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ~John Harrigan Loved all your great guesses last week on my seed picture. Some of the guesses were of seeds I recognized – blueberries, huckleberries, gooseberries. But others of you mentioned berries that had me wondering. I’ll be looking some of them up on the net. Saskatoon berries, farkleberries, Nantucket …
“Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.” (George Eliot) Do you love the season of autumn? What a great time to get outside and enjoy some sunshine. Maybe sit in a glider on your deck or porch and read a book. Now …
After I wrote a few weeks ago about being diagnosed with breast cancer, I’ve heard from many of you who have fought the same fight. We do have the one in eight statistic staring us in the face. Many of you have shared with me about your diagnoses and how now you are cancer free. You’ve also given me advice …