Back in 2005 when Scent of Lilacs, my first inspirational novel was published, I decided to celebrate with a book party for my hometown readers. These friends and family had been so supportive of my writing efforts through the years after my first book was published by Warner Books in 1978. I’d had some ups and downs through the years. …
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.” — Gertrude Jekyll Do you have a vegetable garden? Or have you ever had one? When I was a kid, I assumed everyone had a garden. Out where I lived in the country, everybody did, and …
It’s great when I pick something to write about in my stories that turns out to be extra interesting to research. The river showboat that is the setting for my new book, In the Shadow of the River, turned out to be that way. I knew very little about showboats when I decided to take my story on the river. So …
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” ~John Harrigan We built a fence this morning. Well, we put it together anyway. Some years ago after we built a room over our old cistern and added a deck to the house, my husband, sweet man that his is, decided to make me a flowerbed running along part of …
Another storm slammed us this afternoon. The second Sunday afternoon in a row that we’ve had wild storms. Last week we didn’t lose power, but this week we have. Our whole road and area along with plenty of others across the county are without power. The crews are out there working, but other storms keep rolling through. It’s not dark …
So what is a calliope and how in the world do you pronounce that? A calliope is a steam organ or steam piano that was named after the Greek Muse Calliope who presided over poetry, song, and the arts and sciences. I had to practice how to say it and after looking up the pronunciation a dozen or so times …
He calms the storm, so that its waves are still. -Psalm 107:29 (NKJ) Do you like thunderstorms? When I was a kid, my family lived in an old farmhouse. We couldn’t even imagine having an air conditioner. We depended on the air conditioning of summer breezes through our windows. We didn’t have water piped to our house. We depended on …
Summer officially started on the calendar yesterday, June 21st. That was the summer solstice when here in this side of the world, we had the longest daylight day of the year. In Kentucky we had almost 15 hours of daylight. In terms of daylight, this day is 5 hours, 20 minutes longer than the December solstice. While the days will …
Happy Father’s Day to all of you. I hope you were able to talk to your father, maybe give him a hug today. And if your father, like mine, has gone on, that you have many good memories to make your heart smile. My dad was a farmer. This picture is one I took of him going out to feed …
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