While thinking about what I could post here tonight, I scrolled back through some of my December posts to see what I might have shared through the years about this or that Christmas memory. Through over 20 years of writing here on One Writer’s Journal, you have to know I’ve shared plenty. I was looking to try to be sure …
One thing almost all of us want to know each morning is what the weather is going to be like that day. Should we take a coat? Will I need an umbrella? Just how hot or how cold (according to the season) is it going to be? Will we be sweating or shivering? Nowadays, we turn on the television or …
“We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.” –Albert Einstein I like to go walking on my farm with my dogs. I started wanting to explore the fields and woods when I was a young teen. That was a long time ago, but I still remember how wonderful it was to …
How long has it been since you built a snowman? Even if it’s been years, don’t you still go out and check out every snowfall and automatically rate the snow as good for building snowmen, having a snowball fight, or sledding? We had our first measurable snow of this winter Monday. When I went to bed a little snow had …
Certainly as an actor, half of your work is not going to end up on the screen anyway, because in the editorial process, they need to cut to the other actor in the scene. Very often, your best work ends up on the cutting room floor, because it just doesn’t work with the overall narrative drive of the story. ~Hart …
Every week I do a Shaker Wednesday on my Facebook author page where I share a tidbit of Shaker history and one of the pictures I’ve taken at the Shaker villages here in Kentucky. This one was taken at South Union and shows a table set and ready the way it might have been back when the village was full …
Christmas is a little more than a month away. Thanksgiving is this week. I’ve always wanted to remember my blessings and give thanks for them before I think about decorating for Christmas. But then, when some of those I number among my blessings showed up the weekend before Thanksgiving and were in the Christmas mood enough to help me do …
“Love at first sight is easy to understand; it’s when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.” – Sam Levenson Happy anniversary to me and to my husband. This picture happened many, many years ago when my husband and I said vows promising to love and honor each other forever. Then …
What word is almost universally understood no matter where in the world you might be? That word is OK, and yet in the history of words, it is relatively new and a word I sometimes avoid in my historical stories. It isn’t OK to let my characters speak words nobody would have said in whatever time period is the setting …
The cover of a book is the beginning of a conversation between the author and the reader. ~ David Pearson A few years ago, I visited a high school to talk about writing and my books. One of the questions they asked was about book covers. What better time to revisit that question than when I’m excited to share …