Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Tulips”
(NOTE TO READER: Jocie Brooke is the young teen character in my Heart of Hollyhill books, Scent of Lilacs, Orchard of Hope and Summer of Joy. She loves writing articles for her father’s smalltown newspaper. Well, she just loves writing anything. So sometimes she takes up pen and paper to write down some reports for her Hollyhill Book of the Strange she’s been …
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go. ~Genesis 28:15a (NKJ) That promise was given to Jacob when he was dreaming as he was on a journey to find his wife as instructed by his father. He, no doubt, felt lonely and afraid but the Lord promised to be with him through all his journeys. The …
May 10, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky on the day after Mother’s Day. Everybody always makes such a big deal out of Mother’s Day. I guess that’s good. Most mothers need a day when they are a big deal. But I don’t much like Mother’s Day. You see, not everybody has a good mother. I didn’t. …
April 20, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I like April. Do you like April? You can count how much more there is of school by weeks instead of months. You can forget about coats most of the time. You can see everything turn green. You can play out in the rain because sometimes it just showers down …
March 23, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky where not much happens in March. That’s for sure. But it is spring and Miss Sally’s chickens are getting cute little feathers and it’s warm enough for me to ride my bicycle. Leigh and I have even been digging up a new flower bed. She wants to plant tulips. She …
October 8, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. I’m sorry to be late reporting, but I had a whole page of sentences to diagram. Plus two pages of Algebra and I had to draw a picture of a flower showing all the parts, stamens or pistils or something like that. Mrs. Boggs, she teaches science, is a flower …
Jocie Brooke here – reporting from Hollyhill. I’m not exactly on Main Street tonight. I’m at our house where I live with Dad and Aunt Love. I haven’t told you all about Aunt Love yet, but I will. I did tell you about her cat, Jezebel. Right, I know Aunt Love says the cat’s name is Sugar, but I think …