Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. (Voltaire) Happy Valentine’s Day! What makes Valentine’s Day good for you? Candy? Roses? A card with loving words? Maybe sugar candy hearts with “Be Mine” on them. Seems I remember hearing that they had jazzed up and modernized the Valentine messages on candy hearts. So now the sayings on …
Discombobalated
Okay, so it’s not Wednesday. It’s not even Thursday, the day I usually remember I forgot to post on One Writer’s Journal on Wednesday. But I’ve got excuses. A good writer should always be able to come up with excuses. Or reasons. So, I’m blaming those grandkids who were here a few days ago. By the time they left, I …
The Wheels Turn
It’s been a grandkid weekend that started on Thursday night and won’t end till late tomorrow night. A couple of the kids are a little homesick. The other two aren’t showing much signs of wishing for home. But for sure, I’m one tired grandmom. The twins are sweet as they can be, but two three-year-olds keep you on the move. …
Opening Day for Words Spoken True
Today is release day for Words Spoken True. It’s out there in the world of readers now. The cover is getting great remarks and now to see if what’s between the front and back covers will make you readers happy. I feel like a mother bird watching her baby bird fly off into the great beyond. Well, I really doubt …
Crazy Quilt History
Quilts connect the past with the present and the future. This is the bed I sleep in when I stay with Mom overnight. I don’t actually sleep under this quilt. I very carefully fold it down and lay it aside. The quilt is well over 100 years old. It was a gift to my great aunt for her wedding. Her sisters …
Some Days We Need An Inspirational Kick
A lot of you know I’m a big basketball fan. And living in Kentucky, that means I bleed blue. Ever since I was a kid I’ve been listening to UK play basketball. Been through some exciting times with the Cats and some disappointing times. Right now, things are going well in the Big Blue Nation. We’ve got a good team …
My Dog Dub
If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. ~Roger Caras I lost my dog, Dub, last year before Christmas. He was a very good dog. A chocolate lab registered by his first owners as Coffee W. Crutcher. Those owners got more dog …
Holding the Promise of a Book
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown I’m excited today about getting the first copy of my new release, Words Spoken True. I’ve had my ear tuned for the UPS truck to bounce into my driveway for several days now because I knew it was close …
Editing The Gifted
What do you think of Jessamine here? I don’t often let my heroines have blonde hair. Mostly I want them to have dark hair or auburn hair. It goes back to when I was a kid and everybody was always talking about how cute the blue-eyed, blonde girls were. Me, I wasn’t blonde. Me, I had eyes that couldn’t make …
Snow Cream in the Forecast
” Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” (John Ruskin) Snow is in the forecast for the first time here in 2012. We saw a few snowflakes in December, and this forecast is not calling for much snow either. …










