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Tonight I’ve finally got the winners of my Scent of Lilacs Celebration Giveaway. It wasn’t easy, let me tell you. I pick the winners by random numbers. Each e-mail I get goes into a special folder and the sender gets numbered according to when I receive the e-mail. Well, imagine my extreme distress this a.m. when I click on that …
March 30, 1964 Jocie Brooke reporting. Yesterday was Easter here in Hollyhill, Kentucky. We did something new here in Hollyhill on Saturday. The local businesses decided to sponsor a kids’ Easter egg hunt at the Fairgrounds. Wouldn’t you know they’d wait until I wasn’t a little kid anymore before they got around to doing something like this? So instead of …
Family ties are cherished things, forged in childhood days, by love of parents, deep and true, and sweet familiar ways.– Terri Burritt Easter Sunday – a day to celebrate with our church families and a day to gather with our extended families. Thinking about Easter gatherings seems to fit right in with my Grandmother theme the last few weeks. Did …
All right, what funny things did your grandmother say? I know there’s probably something. Some odd turn of phrase or perhaps mispronunciation, something that still makes you smile when you remember. Jackie called her grandmother’s wise little saying “grandma-isms.” So here are a few of those grandma-isms I gleaned out of your e-mails and comments. Susan said her grandmother would load …
Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County, KY. I’m not on Main Street tonight, but actually visiting Miss Sally. Miss Sally is the sweetest lady you’d ever want to meet and we have her in our church out there at Mt. Pleasant. Daddy wishes he had a whole church full of Miss Sallys. She’s always volunteering to do whatever needs …
“The history of our grandparents is remembered not with rose petals but in the laughter and tears of their children and their children’s children. It is into us that the lives of grandparents have gone. It is in us that their history becomes a future.” ~Charles and Ann Morse One more week to enter my Scent of Lilacs Celebration Giveaway, …
A garden of Love grows in a Grandmother’s heart. ~ Unknown Grandmothers do matter. That they matter a lot has certainly been clear from all the wonderful grandmother stories I’m receiving. Even those of you who didn’t really have a chance to know your grandmothers, realize you missed out on something special and now you’re making up for your loss …
March 17, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s been a pretty calm week here in Hollyhill. That’s about the only kind of weeks we have, so don’t let the title of this blog fool you too much. I go hunting strange, but in a little town like ours, most everything is same old same old. …
Some days are harder than other days. Some days we get up and whatever can go wrong seems to be in a hurry to head down that road. I had one of those afternoons last week. A day when everything seemed to pile on. I had a lot to do. Words for the new story weren’t exactly spilling out. The …
A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend. ~Author Unknown Time – it’s been on my mind this week because of Daylight Savings Time. Mom can’t adjust to the time change very well because while she’s forgotten many things, she hasn’t forgotten that meals come at certain daylight times. Manipulating the …