Close the chapter of last year with a smile and reflection. Allow excitement and joy to bring in your new tomorrow. (Unknown source) Back when I did more journal writing in notebooks instead of here on One Writer’s Journal, I used to always take time to write down the joys of the passing year on New Year’s Eve. It’s a …
Do you like to read Christmas stories? New ones come out every year and those old ones start showing up too. The first Christmas story showed up over 2,000 years ago when a baby was born in a Bethlehem stable. That beloved story has now been read and told millions of times. Fathers and mothers read it to their children. …
Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you are having a wonderful and blessed Christmas week. As a Christmas special from me to you, here is an excerpt from my Shaker Christmas story, Christmas at Harmony Hill. By the time the fog began to lift, Gideon’s company was in position. The men crouched down behind whatever cover they could find and waited …
Then Jesus again spoke to them, saying, “I am the Light of the world; he who follows Me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the Light of life.” (John 8:12 KJV) We had a Candlelight Service at my little church tonight. It’s a service I love. Many of you have told me the same thing when you have …
I shared the thoughts of Christmas from Aunt Perdie of Along a Storied Trail last Sunday. So I invited a different character to stop by tonight. Ivy Bradford from my recent book, The Pursuit of Elena Bradford. Ivy is Elena’s younger sister and very different from Elena. She’s sixteen and beautiful and full of the joy of life. So naturally enough, she loves …
While thinking about what I could post here tonight, I scrolled back through some of my December posts to see what I might have shared through the years about this or that Christmas memory. Through over 20 years of writing here on One Writer’s Journal, you have to know I’ve shared plenty. I was looking to try to be sure …
One thing almost all of us want to know each morning is what the weather is going to be like that day. Should we take a coat? Will I need an umbrella? Just how hot or how cold (according to the season) is it going to be? Will we be sweating or shivering? Nowadays, we turn on the television or …
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” –Albert Einstein I like to go walking on my farm with my dogs. I started wanting to explore the fields and woods when I was a young teen. That was a long time ago, but I still remember how wonderful it was to …
How long has it been since you built a snowman? Even if it’s been years, don’t you still go out and check out every snowfall and automatically rate the snow as good for building snowmen, having a snowball fight, or sledding? We had our first measurable snow of this winter Monday. When I went to bed a little snow had …
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn’t work with the overall narrative drive of the story. ~Hart …