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“If cats could talk, they wouldn’t.” –Nan Porter This is my sister’s cat. He has a name her granddaughter gave him years ago when she was a little girl. Something like Fluffleupaluff. She’d been a Sesame Street watcher and the show used to have a muppet character called Mr. Snuffleupagus that nobody saw but Big Bird. Anyway, the Fluff name …
I’m working on a new book. That means a whole new cast of characters. Last week I wanted to get to know the man who will be my main male character. The one thing I know about him is that he is an artist. Well, I know some other things too but not everything. For some reason, I started writing …
Some years ago I shared parts of this post about how to know if you were famous. At the time, a kid at a book event had asked me “Are you famous?” I didn’t exactly know how to answer him. I was there trying to get people interested in some books I’d written. But does writing a book make one …
This was the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. …Psalm 118:23 (NKJ) Several years ago, on a cold autumn morning, I was walking through a field on my farm when I spotted something white on the ground. I knew it hadn’t snowed or sleeted. The sky above me was clear. I wondered if it could be litter – …
“I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn’t exist.” (Berkeley Breathed) As a writer I have become emotionally involved with many characters that only came into existence because I imagined them and set them down on a story trail. As I …
I wanted you all to be the first to see my new book cover. So here is the first peek at the cover of The Song of Sourwood Mountain that I’ve been promising to show you for a couple of weeks. While the book won’t be out there for readers until May 2024, it is already available for pre-order at …
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? (Dr. Laurence J. Peter) I’ve shared this quote a couple of times before here on my blog, One Writer’s Journal, but it keeps coming to mind since my desk can get cluttered in a very short amount of time. There are just …
1. If you had a warning label, what would yours say? Warning: Don’t ask about my grandkids. If you do, I might start hunting pictures on my phone to show you. (I know you didn’t ask, but that’s still a grandkid picture.) 2. What could you give a 40-minute presentation on with absolutely no preparation? I could talk 40 minutes, …
It’s been a busy October for me, but that happens. And that’s good, but sometimes I need to remember the quote I once read about being busy from Henry David Thoreau. “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Ants are certainly forever busy, but they do get what …
“Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” ~Lloyd Alexander Thank all of you for playing my Caption Game. It seemed to get over really quickly, but maybe that was just because the captions you suggested were so fun. I think you had the most fun with my friend showing up at the Shaker …