A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won’t be too bad. ~Robert Wagner Any of you who stop by here to see what’s going on down here on the farm or in my writing world or for my this and that, you know I am a dog lover. I got my …
“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I’d be picking roses for a lifetime.” –An Old Swedish Proverb I had fun sharing some Valentine stories on Sunday and I have just a few more to share today. Then I will share my own “how we met” story. First Betty found her special Valentine at a young …
Sometimes we find love and sometimes love finds us. When I sent out my newsletter on Valentine’s Day, I invited readers to share Valentine stories. Some did, and now I get to share these magical first meetings with you. Robin was at work when love found her. A first date on Valentine’s is a great way to start out a …
A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb I sent out a Valentine newsletter Sunday night. Of course, I included a chance to win a book and as a Valentine bonus some chocolates. I’m hearing from so many of you who include a kind and encouraging few words with your entries. People need those kind words and what …
“To love at all is to be vulnerable.” ~C.S.Lewis One of my favorite secondary characters in Along a Storied Trail is definitely Perdita Sweet or Aunt Perdy as most of the mountain people in the story called her even if as she said, she wasn’t an aunt to any of them. She was as prickly as a cockleburr and seemed to enjoy …
Just because you know my name doesn’t mean you know my story. That is a slightly enhanced version of a quote attributed to Jonathan Anthony Burkett. “You know my name, not my story.” Sometimes that’s where I am when writing a new story. Names are important to me as I try to get to know my characters. I have a …
Winter sunlight is a warm old soul, spreading love in the bitter cold. ~Angie Weiland-Crosby Don’t you just love a winter day filled with sunlight? Perhaps you have a favorite chair by a window where the sun streams in to warm you when winter has thrown cold winds our way. Sunlight can make everything more beautiful and cheer our souls. Sunlight …
In America the ice-storm is an event. And it is not an event which one is careless about. When it comes, the news flies from room to room in the house, there are bangings on the doors, and shoutings, “The ice-storm! the ice-storm!” and even the laziest sleepers throw off the covers and join the rush for the windows. ~Mark …
“The footprints you leave behind will influence others. There is no person who at some time, somewhere, somehow, does not lead another.” ~Unknown One of the things I enjoy about walking in snow is seeing track trails. I live on a farm and that means I can see fields untouched by human feet, vehicles or livestock. Cows are confined to one …
Did you know that before radios and television people did a lot more porch sitting and storytelling? On top of that, people actually read aloud to one another as an entertainment. I can imagine sisters or friends sitting together to do needlework or some other task while one had the pleasure of reading aloud to them to make the task …