“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 …
January 1, 1967 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Happy New Year!! 1967 showed up on a Sunday so that means we started out the New Year in church. You are in church every Sunday when you are a preacher’s kid! But I don’t mind. I like going to church. At least, most of the time. Church people get …
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. (Edith Pierce) I like thinking about a new year as an open book for us to write our own words on the blank pages of each day. Of course, …
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius 2016 is on the way, but it’s still Christmas week and actually the Wise Men didn’t make it to see the baby Jesus exactly on the day he was born. It was a little while before they made their way following the star to Bethlehem. No jet planes back in those …
Do you remember when it took what felt like two months for the week of Christmas to pass? The hours on Christmas Eve surely had 120 minutes each. The anticipation of Christmas was something so real you could taste it as easily as you could taste that piece of chocolate fudge you sneaked from your mother’s stash of Christmas candy. …