A New Flower to Name Are you ready for another flower? I’ve been searching through my flower book hoping I can find the right name for this one. I may have to make up a name myself, but I think I have it narrowed down. When identifying flowers, sometimes the pictures in the flower books vary a little from my …
March 30, 1966 Jocie Brooke here excited to be reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky because it’s SPRING BREAK!! No school for a whole week. We almost had to go to school on Monday and Tuesday, but then the Legislature said we didn’t have to make up all our snow days. So the superintendent just tacked on a few extra days to …
Spring is still dragging her feet around here and letting Jack Frost hang around days too long. But next week, warmer air is supposed to show up and maybe that will mean flowers start showing up too. Are you ready for flowers? I hope you’re ready for a new flower to guess. Or to name if you don’t know the …
You all are always such fun whenever I have a contest here on One Writer’s Journal. You jump right in and give whatever I suggest a try. Some of you knew your wildflowers and guessed right on my flower picture. It was a poppy. A celandine poppy or wood poppy, to be exact. But for those of you who called it …
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 …
Spring is Here Hey, did you notice? It’s SPRING! The calendar says so. Now if some of us can get Mother Nature to go along with the calendar, we’ll be happy. Here things are beginning to look and sound like spring. The spring peepers are in full voice at night and in the morning, the birds are singing their spring …
Sometimes you go somewhere and just step smack dab into the middle of history. That’s what happened to us last week when my husband and I went to a Southern Gospel event at the Greenbrier Resort Hotel in West Virginia. A beautiful place that simply reeked with history. Made this writer wonder if I could someday write a story in …
March 16, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s four days until the calendar says spring. Then it will be a while longer before I’ll see any new dogwood blooms, but I can think about them coming. And all the other flowers too. Back when Mama Mae was still living, she would be out in the yard as …
Celebrating Mom’s birthday! Mom (on the right) and her sisters, Evelyn and Margaret Mom and me and my dogs Mom and her grandkids Monday the 16th of March is Mom’s birthday. The first birthday I haven’t been able to celebrate with her. She’s gone on to heaven where she doesn’t have to worry about getting older and where every day …
Most of you know that my husband sang bass in gospel quartets for almost forty years. He retired from his most recent quartet group over a year ago to do some solo singing and not have to travel as much. But he didn’t lose his love for the Southern Gospel quartet music. This week we’ve been at a gospel music …