Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing. How many times have you sung “Joy to the World” at Christmas and thought how wonderfully it matched the feeling of the season of …
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. ~Abbe Prevost I sent out a newsletter last week. If you didn’t get it and would like to read my news, let me know and I’ll send one out to you. In the newsletter, I invited readers to share a Christmas story. I mentioned it could be about a special …
“School times end but the memories last forever.” – Unknown I got this message from Nancy about my book, Along a Storied Trail. “Your best book yet!! Keep them coming. I went to a country school in WI in the 1940’s. All 8 grades; walked or rode bike to school. Small stove to heat the one room. One teacher …
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Eve Burrows I asked you in last Sunday’s post to share something for which you were thankful as a way to enter a drawing to win a choice of one my autographed books. I wasn’t surprised that nearly all of you mentioned family as a number one blessing. I have …
“Help me to continue writing through those black moments of discouragement when I feel that nothing I write is good or worthwhile or will ever be read by anyone.” (an excerpt from A Writer’s Prayer by H. Joseph Chadwick) From the time I got hold of my first notebook and pen, I wanted to be a writer. All those lines …
I just turned in a second round of edits on my upcoming release, When the Meadow Blooms, that will be available May 2, 2022. Normally, at this stage I don’t have to do a great deal of editing except for places where a deleted line or a change of wording can make the reading better. But this time, my editor …
If you’ve been stopping by here to see what I have to say now and again, then you know I’m a country girl. I grew up on a farm where my dad raised beef cattle although we never said beef cattle back then. They were just cows. Usually a mixture of colors and kinds. Dad did prefer Herefords. They were …
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” ~John Muir Sometimes in the fall season of the year, you are gifted with a perfect day of sunshine, short sleeve temperatures, and friends who want to take a hike in the woods. That was my gift today as this crew of hikers showed up to take a …
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. ~William Henry Hudson As I wrote in my last post, our family went on a short vacation to the Barren River Lake. The lake was beautiful and I was especially excited when I read in the information about the place that October started the time of the …
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley My husband and I just got back from a trip with his two brothers and sister and their spouses. We talked and laughed and remembered. The way we do every time we get together, we told some …