We dream of having a clean house – but who dreams of actually doing the cleaning? We don’t have to dream about doing the work, because doing the work is always within our grasp; the dream, in this sense, is to attain the goal without the work. ~Marcus Buckingham That’s something I could dream. The house clean. All the mess …
February 2, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from very snowy Hollyhill, Kentucky. Do you like snow? I do. So much that I decided to write a poem about it. A Haiku. Do you know what that is? I sort of do. We’ve been talking about them in English at school. It’s a short three line poem. Not sure exactly how …
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island. ~Walt Disney You all know that I love books. I love reading them and I love writing them. Well, most of the time I love writing them. Sometimes when the doldrums hit in the middle of my writing, then I can get a little discouraged …
Then the Lord opened the mouth of the donkey, and she said to Balaam, “What have I done to you, that you have struck me these three times?” And Balaam said to the donkey, “Because you have abused me, I wish there were a sword in my hand, for now I would kill you!” So the donkey said to Balaam, …
“Enjoy the little things in life for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.” Robert Brault Do you like little mysteries? I know some of you do since you’ve been coming back to guess on my new mystery photos. Linda says it’s fun to guess and good brain exercise. We all need that kind …
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. (Oscar Wilde) I finally posted a mystery picture that was a mystery to almost all of you. Can you see me doing a Snoopy dance? LOL. I did have one right answer, but not in the comments here. My sister-in-law knew what the mystery photo was and posted …
As Grover, the Sesame Street monster, says in his cute book “A Monster at the End of the Book,” NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!! That’s one of my grandkids’ favorite books. I must have read it five hundred times and on one of the pages that’s what Grover yells. And of course, when I’m reading it, I yell too or …
Okay, so maybe washboards/scrub boards aren’t as mysterious as I thought they might be. I imagined all you young people out there having no idea what a scrub board even was. Boy, was I wrong. The guesses came in fast and furious and right. A scarce few of you guessed something else, I think, just to make me feel better. …
Giveaway Time – A New Contest Time to give away something. Books, of course. In my way of thinking, not much better than a book to settle down with on a cold winter’s night or a warm winter’s night either. I’ll pick three winners by random drawing on January 31, 2016. In the weeks before that I’ll be posting various …
As those of you who read my blog posts here and have read my novels already know, I’m not a writer who sticks to one type of story or theme. Most publicity experts would tell me that’s where I go astray. Readers like to know what they’re getting. I should pick a “brand” and stay with it to attract more …