Sometimes you just need to take a few hours out of your busy life to meet a real lady. That’s what I did this week and what a blessing that was. A few months ago, a friend told me she knew a woman who was a little girl in the mountains when the packhorse librarians were riding out on the …
When I was a kid, I loved to have a book to read. I was blessed with a mother who took me to the library where shelves and shelves of books beckoned me into new worlds. The summer was time to read. If there wasn’t anything to do on the farm which was often the case in July after the …
I’ve written a lot of books and seen many of them published and sent out into the world of readers. Each new story has a way of sort of pushing the last story a little to the side and the story ten books ago toward the second shelf of memory. I did a Zoom meeting with a fun book club …
Happy Birthday, America! “God Bless America, my home, sweet home.”~Irving Berlin I hope you are having a great 4th of July weekend of celebration. Fireworks will be exploding in the sky. My dog, Frankie, will be hiding in the basement. Kids everywhere will be going oohh and aahh. Well, except some of the very young ones who might be hiding …
“Luck is believing you’re lucky.” ~Tennessee Williams Luck of the draw describes something that is out of your control and where you have no choice in what is happening or has happened. The family you are born into might be called a luck of the draw. According to what I saw online, the “luck of the draw” is a relatively new …
Do you have a locket you like to wear? Perhaps because it’s pretty. Perhaps because it holds the picture of a loved one. Maybe a grandchild or a sweetheart. I remember loving the idea of having a locket when I was a young girl. The idea of secreting a photo inside it and then wearing it close to my heart …
Do you see some of your favorite inspirational historical fiction writers in the picture above? Five of us got together on Book Talk with Cara Putnam to talk about our books and why we like to go back in time to write those stories. Each of us has a new release and if you go over to Cara’s website here, …
Happy Father’s Day to all of you – those who are dads and those of us who have dads. There’s nothing like a dad, but it’s also true that our dads weren’t always dads. They used to be boys and then young men looking to the future, trying out their wings, finding their independence. This picture is my dad on …
Make hay while the sun shines. Most everyone has heard that old saying and knows what it means. But if you’re a farmer with some cows to get through the winter, you especially give that plenty of thought. You watch the weather forecast with an attentive eye for several days of sunny weather in a row. Then you hope the …
When a crow says an intelligent thing, chickens may laugh at it. This is the laughing of the sand castles at the powerful waves! ~Mehmet Murat ildan Crows play a part in my new book, When the Meadow Blooms. In fact, a story about ravens bringing gifts to a girl who had fed them was one of the flashes of inspiration for …