“Did you know that there are over 300 words for love in canine?” – Gabriel Zevin I know. I’m late. It is Thursday, not Wednesday when I usually post. But we had company last night and had to get a new television set up since the one we had just blew up a couple of days ago. Now, while I …
Did you know it was Grandparents’ Day today? Grandparents Day is young yet in the way of holidays and the truth is, grandparents know their grandchildren are all the gifts they need. Still, it’s fun to celebrate the love of grandparents. Are you blessed with grandchildren or children you love enough to consider them grandkids? I knew a couple once who …
Butterflies Sunday. Box turtles today. Seems there is always some kind of critter around to tickle the imagination and invite a new round of photo captions. Thanks to all of you who have played my caption game so far. You put a lot of words into Marley’s doggie head on the first picture last Wednesday and came up with some …
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) Have you ever chased a butterfly? Without a butterfly net? Usually just as you almost have it, the butterfly flits away to a new spot where it will wave its wings at you. It’s …
“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.” — Elliott Erwitt Those of you who hang out with me here on my blog and on my Facebook page know how …
Have you let the cat out of the bag or bought a pig in a poke? Is it raining cats and dogs at your house? No, I don’t have any big news or secrets to tell, but sometimes it’s fun to think about why we say the things we do. Especially when it comes to idioms. What is an idiom? …
“I’m late! I’m late! For a very important date! No time to say hello, goodbye! I’m late! I’m late! I’m late!” (The White Rabbit in Alice in the Wonderland) Yes, I am late with this post – again. I was late last week too. The White Rabbit’s lament runs through my head whenever I think about being late and sometimes I sing …
“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.” ~Albert Einstein I’ve no doubt said this before here on One Writer’s Journal, but I’m saying it again. I love libraries. Without the library in my hometown and my wonderful mother making sure I got a library card and the opportunity to use it, I …
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. ~Daniel Webster Do you have a garden? Have you ever had a garden? When I looked for quotes for this post, most of the quotes were about …
“Let’s be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.” – Lena Dunham I know all these wonderful readers and writers that I spent a couple of days with last week at the Fiction Readers Summit would agree with Lena Dunham on that extra day for reading. But not having that extra day …