“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.” ~James M. Barrie Sunshine “Sunshine, sunshine in my soul today.” Don’t you just love the sunshine songs in the church hymn books? Don’t you just love the sunshine, especially in the winter time? The change from Daylight Savings Time this week has me noticing how the …
November 4, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Things have been sort of crazy in Holly County this week, but then things are supposed to be sort of crazy on Halloween, aren’t they? I’m way too old for trick-or-treating. I never did that anyway. Dad didn’t think it was all that good to go around knocking on doors …
The Mystery Revealed The guesses were fun. All of you were ready to be out on the farm. And I finally fooled some of you. That made me smile. But a few of you were right. It wasn’t a cow. Or a pig. My daughter-in-law knew who it was on first glance, but she privately messaged me her guess so …
“Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.” ~Mason Cooley I love games that take imagination. Guessing games can be fun too. So thank all of you who have played along with my mystery photos to enter my giveaway for Orchard of Hope. I’ll be drawing for the two winners on Saturday, November 2, so you can …
October 28, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill. As you can see in the photo here, not much going on Main Street on a Tuesday afternoon. There are days when I go out and stomp on the sidewalk just to see if I can wake up anybody in the town. But nobody ever rushes out of the …
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. That’s a famous first sentence from George Orwell’s novel 1984 published in 1949. The sentence lets you know at once that this story is no ordinary story. Every story has to have a first sentence. That first sentence needs to not only pull the reader into a …
“Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” (Lewis Carroll) So to twist the quote a bit, what in the world is it? Are you tired of mystery photos yet? I hope not. I thought I’d do one more to let you keep guessing to perhaps win that copy of the newly packaged Orchard of Hope. I think Jocie …
October 21, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County, Kentucky. Don’t you just love it when the leaves start turning? It makes me just want to start walking through the ones that have already fallen so I can hear that rustling sound. Hard to sneak up on anybody that way. We had this nature person who came and talked …
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The questions is: What are we busy about?” (Henry David Thoreau) I used to have that quote on my desk calendar because I think it’s a great question to ask ourselves. I get busy. Lately I am often way too busy and I have to stop and think am …
Welcome to the 2013 Fall Scavenger Hunt! This hunt (which begins at noon Mountain Daylight Time) has 25 stops and runs October 18 through October 20, 2013. You can make the loop, reading unique content from 25 different authors, and after you complete the loop and fill out the Rafflecopter form at the final stop, you’ll be in the running …