Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together. ~Pearl S. Buck I’m still thinking about Moms. And why not? Don’t you thing a mom deserves a week of special thoughts and memories. Someone on my Facebook page last week said she thought we should change …
“Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.” (Sophocles) Happy Mother’s Day to all of you. As I told the people at church this morning, we can all be thankful we had a mother because we all do. Usually on Mother’s Day, I write about my mother. If you look through my archives and search for Mother’s Day, …
Once again the mysteries have all been solved. Thank you so much for playing my mystery photo game and guessing right sometimes and guessing wrong sometimes. Especially that guessing wrong. LOL. I do like to keep at least a few of you in the dark on these pictures. I had a monumental fail with the typewriter keys. You all knew …
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand. Neil Armstrong I love mysteries. I give mysteries some credit for me starting to dream of becoming a writer when I was a kid of nine or ten. That’s because some of the stories I loved then were Hardy Boy mysteries and I had the great idea …
“Not every puzzle is intended to be solved. Some are in place to test your limits. Others are, in fact, not puzzles at all…” ― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration Okay, so nearly all of you solved the last mystery here with aplomb. At least I get to use a fancy sounding word. Some words just seem to …
“Sometimes the closer you are to the truth, the harder it is to see.” ― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, Circle of Trust Lots of guesses on my first mystery photo that I posted on Sunday. Love that you didn’t all get it right. Was a bit worried when the second person and then the fifth knew what it was. I’m groaning …
“The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.” ― Arthur Conan Doyle A new book ready to be released means it’s Mystery Photo time. I’ve been trying hard to see things in a new light so that I can somehow make them very mysterious for you. 🙂 But everything I try, I decide you’ll …
Tomorrow I’m going to an elementary school to talk about writing to around three hundred kids. Would that strike fear in your heart? I can understand if you say yes. But the teachers won’t desert me, I’m sure. Almost sure. Pretty sure. No, actually I’m very sure. LOL. And it’s fun talking to kids about reading and writing. I’ll let …
Spring 1965. Jocie Brooke here, reporting from Hollyhill. As usual nothing much is happening around here. I don’t know how my dad finds enough stuff to put in the newspaper every week. He says that’s because I don’t know what people in small towns like to read in their paper. He says people like good news and nobody wants to …
The earth laughs in flowers. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson A week or so ago, I invited you to go wildflower hunting with me and promised that we’d go again. That’s the thing with spring. It gifts us with such a variety spread out over a couple of months. Early, early I had to go walking to find the hepatica blooms that …