“I’m a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.” Sarah Vowell > I finished up the editing on the galleys of my Rosey Corner book, Small Town Girl, that will be released in July. Publishing a book with a traditional publisher is often a slow and exacting process. I know there are ways now that a …
Valentines and Hearts
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire What would life be without love? Isn’t it great that we have a day set aside to celebrate love? In of all months, February. That month of the year when those of us in the northern hemisphere are beginning to be weary of winter. The month when …
A Dog Named Zebedee
Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. ~Max Eastman February 10, 1964. Jocie Brooke here still on the outlook for strange on Main Street, Hollyhill. It’s been a quiet week. That’s how weeks in February are if we don’t get a big snowstorm. Then if the snow falls deep enough, things can really get slow in Hollyhill. Everybody stays …
Celebrations and Cooking
“I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.” ~Julia Child. Every Sunday morning I do a special post on my Facebook page – Sunday morning coming down – where I tell what I’m seeing out my window and sometimes what’s happening …
Every Book Can be a Gift
Each day provides its own gifts. ~Marcus Aurelius One of the daily or weekly gifts I receive are the comments you leave here and on my Facebook author’s page. It’s fun getting to know you and I really enjoy when you share stories from your lives. Take Joye’s comment on my blizzard post Sunday about her dad having to crawl …
Barefoot Ben Wilson on Main Street
Ben Wilson February 3, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill. Snow fell yesterday. At least three inches. Plenty to make the county roads slick and so no school. Yaaayy! It’s always especially cool when snow happens on a Monday. Everybody hates getting up on Monday morning even if they have their homework done already. And I did. …
The Blizzard of ’94
Snow picture on Ann’s Farm 2013 We’ve had a little snow several times this winter, but it has been a little each time. An inch here. A couple of inches there, or maybe only a trace. We even had a little ice one day but it mostly clung to the trees and didn’t coat the ground. I like snow like …
Paper Airplanes and Homework
I just got home from spending a couple of days with my grandkids while their parents went on a business/relaxation trip. They take this trip every year and for the past several years I’ve gone up to their house to hold down the fort. Well, last year, the kids came to my house. My husband was out of town that …
Eating Meetings
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” ~Voltaire At my little church, we often have what we call “eating meetings.” The practice of sharing meals seems to strengthen our fellowship, and the food’s pretty good too. There’s little better than an old-fashioned dinner on the …
Wes Takes a Turn With the Book of the Strange
Jocie Brooke here reporting from Main Street, Hollyhill. Well, I would be reporting except I have to do this science report for school about plant stamens and pistils. I know. Boring!! But Dad says grades are important and I can’t just make something up. Pistils sounds like something made up to me. Anyway, since the report is due Monday, I’m …