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“Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ― Robert A. Heinlein Do you love seeing butterflies in the summertime? I do. I’m always ready to yank out my phone and try to get it fired up and to the right screen fast enough to take a picture. Sometimes I succeed. Sometimes I simply take a picture of an empty flower. Butterflies are notorious …
Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~John F. Kennedy In response to my recent newsletter in which I asked if any of the readers had at some time in their life worked as a volunteer, I received so many great responses of all sorts of different ways people can volunteer to make …
A couple of weeks ago I sent out a newsletter to celebrate the release of my novel An Appalachian Summer. I hope if you got the newsletter, you enjoyed reading it. If you didn’t get it, you can sign up to be sure not to miss the next one here on the form in the margin of my website. I’d be …
What’s more fun that a Mystery Photo Game? I guess it’s having two grandsons come spend a couple of nights at Grandma’s house. But being on grandma duty and playing all sorts of games from Jenga to Uno to hiking to the creek had kept me too busy to keep up with all the other things I needed to do. …
“The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment.” ~Robert Flacon Scott Okay so Sunday’s mystery photo wasn’t a great mystery. A lot of you knew what it was. I guess the pecan mystery picture was my tricky highlight (so far) and this one my low light. But that’s okay. I’m fine with some right guesses. It definitely …
“We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.” ~David Mamet Well, I’ve had my success in the mystery photo game this time. Now if you all get the last two right, it will be fine because I completely tricked you on this Number 3 picture. I really thought you’d get it, and while most …
“What we could consider magic, may just be science that we don’t understand yet.” ― Patricia Robin Woodruff, Strange Tales of Floyd County, VA Thank you all for playing my Mystery Photo Game. Some of you are really hard to trick into thinking something different than what it is. But I guess some people are simply better at solving mysteries …
He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace. ~Albert Einstein Don’t you just love nature? Love going outside to see what you might see? See what gifts the Lord might bless you with on any particular day? That happens to me often when I go walking …
What a week so far! An Appalachian Summer officially released yesterday, June 30th. As I said in my last post, it is always, always fun having a new book out for readers. Then it can be a little tense waiting to see what those readers are going to say about the story. So far the reviews and comments have been …
Tuesday is release day for An Appalachian Summer. Already books have gone out to some reviewers and early readers. But Tuesday, if you did a pre-order, my new mountain story will fly out to you. And I will love hearing what you think about the story. When I decided to go back to Wendover, Kentucky for a new story, I wanted to …