I’ve been sharing some bits and pieces of scenes from some of my backlist books. Since my new story, A Chance for Kallie Mae, due out in May, is set in the Eastern Kentucky Appalachian area, I decided to share a little about some of my Appalachian stories. Last week, while my website was having some hiccups, I shared …
By Ann H Gabhart on February 16, 2026 I hope you had a sweet Valentine’s Day yesterday. A few years ago Mom was happy when she got some roses. I don’t remember if this was on Valentine’s Day or not, but it could have been. It’s a great time for roses and cards. A few years ago when Valentine’s Day was on …
By Ann H Gabhart on February 11, 2026 “I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.” – Steve Southerland I like the four seasons too although I admit to sometimes getting weary of …
By Ann H Gabhart on February 19, 2026 “The bridge ain’t shaking. It’s dancing. You gotta dance with it, girl. Let your feet find the rhythm. If you pay some mind, there’s rhythm nigh on to ev’rything.” …Granny Em in These Healing Hills An old mountain granny gives Francine, my main character in These Healing Hills this advice while Francine stands frozen on a swinging …
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~J. B. Priestley Can you believe it? I thought of another of my books with …
No one comes here by accident. ~Frontier Nurse saying These Healing Hills is the first book that I set in the Eastern Kentucky Appalachian Mountains and featured history of the region. In hunting for a new story idea I read about Mary Breckinridge and how she started the Frontier Nursing Service and brought midwives to go up into the hills …
When life gives you too much snow, make snow angels. One of my favorite snow scenes that I almost forgot about when I started thinking about sharing snow scenes from my books is from The Believer, my second Shaker story. In this book I wanted to share more about the Shakers’ history and beliefs. They were very rule centered. They had …
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” — John Burroughs I’ve known some Januarys where snow has been off somewhere to the north, where you could only find ice in the freezer, and winter coats were hardly …
Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you’d bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I’d be the talk of the day. John Mayer (Source-brainyquote.com) Oh, the weather. What would we talk about if not for the weather? This week the weather has dominated the talking. Forecasts started several days ago, maybe more than several, about …
There are days for everything. Eat Pizza day. Walk your dog day. Call your mom day. Well, maybe I made that last one up just now, but moms appreciate those calls. Today I noticed a tiny picture of a squirrel in the Search area along the bottom of my screen here. Curiosity aroused, I clicked on it and discovered it …