“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely.” ― Alexandra Elle Today was a beautiful beginning to March, the kind of day that if you don’t go outside and do something you feel you have missed a sweet opportunity to enjoy life. March can …
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” (John Ruskin) Snow is in the air tonight. The temperature plunged and the rain started turning white. Frankie went outside a while ago and came back with white sprinkled all across his …
“There’s a sunrise awaiting everyone who wishes to see beyond what their windows allow them to see.” ― Maria S Haneef Those of you who follow my Facebook author page know that I invite everyone along on my “Sunday morning coming down” walks each week. Wherever I am, which is usually right here at home, I go out with the dogs …
“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.” ~Elbert Hubbard In my last post, I invited you to ask me a question about my writing or books and some of you did. …
“And you still haven’t answered any of my one-hundred ten questions, or my follow ups.” ― Greg Farshtey I think I’ve told you before that the Q & A part of any writing talk I give is my favorite. I don’t have to figure out what I’m going to say for that part of the talk. I just get to …
“A name can’t begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that’s the magic of names, isn’t it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.” ― Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot I’m working on a new book. That means I’m having …
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. ~Charles M. Schulz Okay, I admit it. I’d never heard of the word witling until I was poking around tonight to find some word definitions. To begin with, I’d thought to talk about the oddities of some words in the English language on this post, but …
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” ~Thomas Wentworth Higginson I like the seasons of the year. Each one brings its own gifts, and one of the gifts of winter is snow. So far this winter, our area is in a snow drought. Instead of snow we’ve had lots …
Here where I grew up in Kentucky, groundhogs weren’t the most loved animal. They burrowed under barns and sheds and made worrisome holes in and around the fields that could cause damage to a workhorse or a farmer if he wasn’t paying attention. And they ate corn and other crops. Farmers and farmers’ sons used them for target practice. They …
I’m happy that I have brought laughter because I have been shown by many the value of it in so many lives, in so many ways. ~Lucille Ball Do you remember back when most of us had black and white televisions and were lucky to be able to pull in three stations with an antenna on our roof? Or sometimes …