And the Game Continues

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  “Tomorrow’s victory is today’s practice.” ― Chris Bradford, The Way of the Warrior Above is picture number 2 just waiting for your clever captions. Thanks to all of you who suggested captions for Sunday’s picture of the kids and the horse. Many of you thought the horse might be wishing the kids had something a bit more appetizing to offer. …

Exercise Your Imagination with a Caption Game

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“A picture is worth a thousand words.” Do you remember saying that or hearing that? I think it used to be true. Pictures back when didn’t lie. If somebody took a picture of you, you might not like how you looked but you had to admit it was how you had looked at that instant of the shutter clicking. Now, …

Are You Part of the Grammar Police Patrol?

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Grammar – knowledge or usage of the preferred or prescribed forms in speaking or writing. Did you know there is a National Grammar Day? I didn’t. At least not until I stumbled across that fact today on the internet. Martha Brockenbrough, founder of the Society for the Promotion of Good Grammar, designated National Grammar Day in 2008. So it’s a …

Snow Is in the Air

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“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 air tonight. The temperature plunged and the rain started turning white. Frankie went outside a while ago and came back with white sprinkled all across his …

Sunday Mornings Coming Down

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“There’s a sunrise awaiting everyone who wishes to see beyond what their windows allow them to see.” ― Maria S Haneef Those of you who follow my Facebook author page know that I invite everyone along on my “Sunday morning coming down” walks each week. Wherever I am, which is usually right here at home, I go out with the dogs …

My Favorite Room – One with Windows

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“Dreams can come true, but there is a secret. They’re realized through the magic of persistence, determination, commitment, passion, practice, focus and hard work. They happen a step at a time, manifested over years, not weeks.” ~Elbert Hubbard In my last post, I invited you to ask me a question about my writing or books and some of you did. …

What Question Would You Ask?

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  “And you still haven’t answered any of my one-hundred ten questions, or my follow ups.” ― Greg Farshtey I think I’ve told you before that the Q & A part of any writing talk I give is my favorite. I don’t have to figure out what I’m going to say for that part of the talk. I just get to …

A Name for Everything

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  “A name can’t begin to encompass the sum of all her parts. But that’s the magic of names, isn’t it? That the complex, contradictory individuals we are can be called up complete and whole in another mind through the simple sorcery of a name.” ― Charles de Lint, Dreams Underfoot I’m working on a new book. That means I’m having …

What Is a Witling?

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All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt. ~Charles M. Schulz Okay, I admit it. I’d never heard of the word witling until I was poking around tonight to find some word definitions. To begin with, I’d thought to talk about the oddities of some words in the English language on this post, but …