Our country just celebrated its 250th year as a nation. From the very beginning, our nation was established with freedom and the pursuit of happiness as the aim for its citizens. While I might be a few days late with the celebrating, our freedom is something to celebrate every day when we get up and can choose where we want …
A Chance for Kallie Mae is the fourth book I’ve set in the Eastern Kentucky Appalachian area. I like going to the mountains for a story. And I liked researching about the people who love those mountains. Along the way in my research, I’ve come across a lot of the superstitions the mountain people, at least some of them, passed down …
“The kiss of the sun for pardon, the song of the birds for mirth, one is nearer God’s heart in a garden than anywhere else on earth.” – Dorothy Frances Gurney I have a picture of me years ago with out garden, but of course, I couldn’t find it. Instead, I found this one of Mom that I took back …
Since my first Shaker book, The Outsider, is still on e-book sale for the special low price of $1.99 for a few more days, I’m re-posting a piece I shared about the Shakers’ most famous Shaker song ten or so years ago here. I’m guessing some of you may not have been reading my posts that long or if …
I just sent out a newsletter, and now I’m getting responses from many of my newsletter readers. I love hearing from readers. That’s one reason I like sharing my journal here on One Writer’s Journal because of how some of you often join in the conversation. In the past with my newsletter, I’ve asked for stories about all sorts …
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.” – Pam Brown Happy Father’s Day! I hope you had a great dad and know many other great dads. Dads come in all shapes and sizes. They might be quiet and serious, always ready with good advice. They might like to make jokes and …
“Share your life with others. You will have a joyful life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita I get notices when someone leaves a review of one of my books on BookBub. Since my new book, A Chance for Kallie Mae, released a couple of months ago, most of the reviews that show up right now are about it. I did see two reviews …
Yesterday was my husband’s birthday. Our daughter and her husband came for a weekend visit to help him celebrate. That’s why I’m late with this post. We didn’t actually have a party. I did arrange a family get together for him on his 70th birthday. That was a lot of fun because all the kids and grandkids were here along …
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” ― Carl Sagan And so, another Mystery Photo Game comes to a close. I hope you had fun. I appreciated all of you who took part and did your imagination exercise. I hope it carried you off to somewhere fun. I have to admit …
I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. ~Dr. Seuss And so we come to the last mystery photo of this Mystery Photo Game. …