The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simply charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. (Therese of Lisieux) Wild violets are not always violet colored. That is purple. Sometimes they are white. Sometimes they …
Romance Is in the Air
Why do you think there are so many June weddings? I hear you out there saying schools out. It’s vacation time. But I say it’s because romance blooms in the spring along with all the lovely flowers. So this post we’re thinking romance with some stories from readers that are not at all the same. First here’s Mandy with a …
What I Like about Spring
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” (Pablo Neruda) Here we are starting the second week of April and yesterday snow covered the ground and the weather guys actually have snowflakes in the forecast again tonight. So while the quote above is good that whether we have flowers or not, we still have spring, maybe …
The Blessings of Spring
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. ~Mark Twain We had a teasing day of spring/summer this week. Temperature zoomed up to 78 degrees. Then it plummeted. Here it is April and not even April 1 so we can think it’s an April Fools’ joke and snow is in the forecast. Snow. 3 …
April Fools’ Day on Easter? When Did that Ever Happen?
Today is April 1st and it’s Easter Sunday. At church we tried to remember a time when Easter fell on April Fools’ Day. We couldn’t. So I looked it up. Isn’t the internet the handiest? When you have a question like that, somebody out there has already posted an answer. So what’s the answer. The fact is you have to …
A Spring Giveaway
If you are on my newsletter list, you know I finally got around to sending out some news. No big news. No book sales although I have noticed lowered prices on a few of my books on Amazon and perhaps other online booksellers. So with nothing much going on except spring dragging its feet about showing up here in Kentucky …
Goals and Deadlines
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” (Diana Scharf) Writing Sans Deadlines For years I wrote my novels without deadlines except for the ones I made for myself. I would set goals for getting this or that story written by this or that time. Usually I did not meet those self-imposed deadline goals. Life would happen with all sorts of interruptions of …
A Peek at a New Character
I’m always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they’re gone, and we’ll never be together like that again. (Seanan McGuire) The above quote has plenty of truth in …
Spring is Springing
“No winter lasts forever. No spring skips its turn.” On Tuesday, Spring officially gets here per the calendar. After the record breaking warmth we had in February for a week or so, spring let winter take over again. I knew we’d have to pay for that early warmth. We always do. Mother Nature keeps a record, but I didn’t think …
March Snows
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water. ~Henry Williamson Spring officially arrives in five days. Usually here in Kentucky we are enjoying spring like weather a week or two before the calendar declares it so. But this year we had those one or two weeks in February. Very unseasonable warmth with May and June …