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“Whoever said you can’t buy happiness forgot little puppies.” – Gene Hill “A dog may be man’s best friend, but a child’s best friend is a puppy.” – Unknown “Happiness is a warm puppy.” – Charles Shultz About ten years ago a neighbor’s dog decided our …
June 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill. It’s been a while since I’ve had time to do any extra reporting. Oh, I’ve still been helping Dad with stories in the paper. Nothing too exciting. This is Hollyhill, you know. About the most exciting story for months was old Mrs. Jennings turning 100. One hundred years. That means she was …
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers and singers of song.” ~Unknown Happy Father’s Day to all of you – those who are dads and those of us who have dads. There’s nothing like a dad, but it’s also true that our dads weren’t always dads. They used to be boys and then young men …
Only ten days until release day for my new mountain story, An Appalachian Summer. A new book being out for readers is always an exciting time. Seems many of my books have had a summer release date. Just in time for some sweet afternoons reading in the porch swing or maybe in a reclining chair on a beach somewhere. You can …
Eventually you reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it. Will Rogers My husband’s birthday is today. He’s clocked a few years and hopes to add on more. Not too long ago we celebrated our 50th anniversary. This is our picture from the party the kids had for us. The other picture is us …
I’m still working hard to trim my new novel down to size and so I’m sharing some smiles tonight. This was a pass-around on social media a few years ago that I happened to save. I’ve hung out many lines of clothes in my life. There’s nothing quite as fragrant as sheets and towels off the line. But in the …
“A sunset is nothing more and nothing less than the backside of a sunrise.” ~Craig D. Lounsbrough What a neat thought about sunsets and so true. When the sun is setting for me, it’s rising for someone else. If I stretch my thinking on this a bit, embellish it some, I can consider the end of a book as some …
In ecology, resilience is defined as the capacity of an ecosystem to respond to a disturbance by resisting damage and recovering quickly. Here in Kentucky this year, we had a beautiful early spring in March. The grass turned green. The flowers bloomed. The trees pushed out their leaves. Fruit trees bloomed, including the wild pawpaw trees over in the field …
Writers write stories they want readers to read. This is certainly true for this writer. I sometimes say that a book takes two to truly come to life. The writer who spills the story out onto the pages and the reader who then invites those words into his or her imagination to experience that story. That’s not to say …
Have you ever seen a spot like this on one of your plants or maybe in your yard where it looks as though somebody spit on your plant and it stuck? I spotted this bit of spittle on a plant while I was walking with the dogs sometime this week. I’ve seen the spit spots before and knew they were …