Have you ever eaten at Cracker Barrel and noticed all the old pictures hanging on their walls? Those stern ancestors of some family that didn’t care enough to keep their pictures? They are always large framed photographs. Poster sized. No small eight by ten photos for them. The men nearly always have long beards and look like the father or …
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. – John Wooden Some years ago at a book fair a young man who might have been twenty, give or take a year or two, came up to my book table and asked, “Are you famous?” I remember first being a bit surprised by the …
Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way. ~Phil McGraw Slaying the dragon for your true love – now, that sounds romantic. And a bit dangerous, I have to admit. Dragons are big …
The Eleventh Hour is a phrase meaning at the last moment, taken from a passage in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard in the King James Bible, Matthew 20:1-16. In that story the owner of a vineyard goes out and hires workers early in the morning and then two more times a little later in the day and …
Crows squawked raucously in the trees. It sounded like they were tearing something apart, something they didn’t even want, just for the fun of destroying it. ~Janet Fitch The last two mornings when I was our early walking my dogs I’ve seen a number of crows fly from the west to the east. One other day I’ve seen them …
When you are a dog lover like me and you write stories to share with readers, you might come up with some four-legged furry characters from time to time. So far I haven’t put Frankie in a story yet, but here in this picture he looks like he’s telling me that might be a fun idea. Well, actually he’s insisting …
\ “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” Unknown Last night was Halloween. Some people have fun on Halloween. Others don’t like the night at all. These days it’s mostly a fun night for kids to dress up in a wide assortment of costumes and go out on their streets to collect a little candy. Or …
“In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf It’s been a tough year for extended families. To get together or not to get together? Events and family gatherings we have taken for granted all our lives are now questions of should you or shouldn’t you do them. Reunions have been postponed a year. Birthdays celebrated without …
Not long ago I got to thinking about the odd moments that can rise from the murky depths of my memory, nudged out to my consciousness by a chance word, an image or even a sniff of some aroma. Sometimes photo can bring up that memory too the way this photo does of a walk in the woods one autumn …
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Autumn is a beautiful time in Kentucky, but I always want the leaves to cling to the branches of the maples a little longer. Some maples are still showing off their colorful leaves but the ones in my yard let theirs drift down to be chewed up by …