Bibliophile – a person who has a great appreciation for or collects books. Are you a bibliophile? I guess I could say I am since I do love books and have collected a few over the years. Have even written my share. When I think about all the words that have flowed through my fingers onto paper or a typewriter …
A day late and a dollar short. I’m sure you’ve heard that phrase often. Maybe you even said it about something or other or someone or other. I’m usually the one that’s a little late and a dollar short. That just means I was late getting something done and without all the resources I might need. I figured that saying …
“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Do you love seeing butterflies in the summertime? I do. I’m always ready to yank out my phone and try to get it fired up and to the right screen fast enough to take a picture. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I simply take a picture of an empty flower. Butterflies are notorious …
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John F. Kennedy In response to my recent newsletter in which I asked if any of the readers had at some time in their life worked as a volunteer, I received so many great responses of all sorts of different ways people can volunteer to make …
A couple of weeks ago I sent out a newsletter to celebrate the release of my novel An Appalachian Summer. I hope if you got the newsletter, you enjoyed reading it. If you didn’t get it, you can sign up to be sure not to miss the next one here on the form in the margin of my website. I’d be …
What’s more fun that a Mystery Photo Game? I guess it’s having two grandsons come spend a couple of nights at Grandma’s house. But being on grandma duty and playing all sorts of games from Jenga to Uno to hiking to the creek had kept me too busy to keep up with all the other things I needed to do. …
“The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.” ~Robert Flacon Scott Okay so Sunday’s mystery photo wasn’t a great mystery. A lot of you knew what it was. I guess the pecan mystery picture was my tricky highlight (so far) and this one my low light. But that’s okay. I’m fine with some right guesses. It definitely …
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ~David Mamet Well, I’ve had my success in the mystery photo game this time. Now if you all get the last two right, it will be fine because I completely tricked you on this Number 3 picture. I really thought you’d get it, and while most …
“What we could consider magic, may just be science that we don’t understand yet.” ― Patricia Robin Woodruff, Strange Tales of Floyd County, VA Thank you all for playing my Mystery Photo Game. Some of you are really hard to trick into thinking something different than what it is. But I guess some people are simply better at solving mysteries …