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“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together … all things connect.” —Chief Seattle I’ve said before on here that writing a novel can be thought of as making a web, something where each strand of web connects …
Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County. Things have been pretty busy with school stuff. Those teachers love giving tests this time of the year. So I hunted up a report I wrote a while back about being out at Miss Sally’s farm again. Maybe you missed reading it the first time and will like this repeat. Reruns on television …
Take a walk with Frankie and me down the creek as we go hunting wildflowers. Every spring I try to find a good day, at least once and even better twice, in the spring to go wildflower hunting. It’s not an easy quest. The path down to the creek is steep and rocky. You can slide down if you’re not …
The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simply charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness. (Therese of Lisieux) Wild violets are not always violet colored. That is purple. Sometimes they are white. Sometimes they …
Why do you think there are so many June weddings? I hear you out there saying schools out. It’s vacation time. But I say it’s because romance blooms in the spring along with all the lovely flowers. So this post we’re thinking romance with some stories from readers that are not at all the same. First here’s Mandy with a …
“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” (Pablo Neruda) Here we are starting the second week of April and yesterday snow covered the ground and the weather guys actually have snowflakes in the forecast again tonight. So while the quote above is good that whether we have flowers or not, we still have spring, maybe …
In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours. ~Mark Twain We had a teasing day of spring/summer this week. Temperature zoomed up to 78 degrees. Then it plummeted. Here it is April and not even April 1 so we can think it’s an April Fools’ joke and snow is in the forecast. Snow. 3 …
Today is April 1st and it’s Easter Sunday. At church we tried to remember a time when Easter fell on April Fools’ Day. We couldn’t. So I looked it up. Isn’t the internet the handiest? When you have a question like that, somebody out there has already posted an answer. So what’s the answer. The fact is you have to …
If you are on my newsletter list, you know I finally got around to sending out some news. No big news. No book sales although I have noticed lowered prices on a few of my books on Amazon and perhaps other online booksellers. So with nothing much going on except spring dragging its feet about showing up here in Kentucky …
“Goals are dreams with deadlines.” (Diana Scharf) Writing Sans Deadlines For years I wrote my novels without deadlines except for the ones I made for myself. I would set goals for getting this or that story written by this or that time. Usually I did not meet those self-imposed deadline goals. Life would happen with all sorts of interruptions of …