March 17, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s been a pretty calm week here in Hollyhill. That’s about the only kind of weeks we have, so don’t let the title of this blog fool you too much. I go hunting strange, but in a little town like ours, most everything is same old same old. …
Some days are harder than other days. Some days we get up and whatever can go wrong seems to be in a hurry to head down that road. I had one of those afternoons last week. A day when everything seemed to pile on. I had a lot to do. Words for the new story weren’t exactly spilling out. The …
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. ~Author Unknown Time – it’s been on my mind this week because of Daylight Savings Time. Mom can’t adjust to the time change very well because while she’s forgotten many things, she hasn’t forgotten that meals come at certain daylight times. Manipulating the …
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 …
My grandmother always taught me, “If you don’t have a home, family, and church, you don’t have anything.” ~Jennifer Hudson See the beautiful grandmothers here. At my book event today, I asked the grandmothers to raise their hands and almost everybody there did. Well, there were a couple of guys in the back who didn’t. But I love grandmothers. Often …
“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” ~Michelangelo Last week I got to proof the pages of my Rosey Corner novel, Small Town Girl, that will release this July. When a writer gets the pages to proof, the …
March 3, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill. It’s March. Basketball tournament time. Our high school team out at Holly County High played in the District Tournament last week. We didn’t win. We never win the tournament, but we did win a few games this year. Better than some years. I took pictures for the paper. I …
“A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.” (Charlotte Davis Kasl) My book, Scent of Lilacs, was released for the second time March 1 and I’m celebrating. Scent of Lilacs was my first novel published in the …
Mom with one of her great-granddaughters Every time I have a new book release or in the case of Scent of Lilacs re-released, I like celebrating with my reading friends. And what better way to celebrate than to give away some things? And what am I giving away? Funny that you should ask since I was just about to …
February 24, 1964. Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill. I think I’m going to have to expand my reporting area. Main Street has been more than usually dull this week. Nothing, I mean nothing going on. Nobody even tried to park without putting nickels in the parking meters. The police chief had absolutely nothing to do but drink …