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I’m always depressed when a book ends, because those are my friends for however long the book takes to write. Since I spend so many hours with these fictional people, I sometimes see them more than my real friends. And then they’re gone, and we’ll never be together like that again. (Seanan McGuire) The above quote has plenty of truth in …
“No winter lasts forever. No spring skips its turn.” On Tuesday, Spring officially gets here per the calendar. After the record breaking warmth we had in February for a week or so, spring let winter take over again. I knew we’d have to pay for that early warmth. We always do. Mother Nature keeps a record, but I didn’t think …
Music comes from an icicle as it melts, to live again as spring water. ~Henry Williamson Spring officially arrives in five days. Usually here in Kentucky we are enjoying spring like weather a week or two before the calendar declares it so. But this year we had those one or two weeks in February. Very unseasonable warmth with May and June …
“An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.” -Winston Churchill Did you remember to spring forward this morning and make it to church on …
“Never wish a thing done; do it!” (Shaker saying) I’ve shared with some of you on my Facebook page that I’m working on a new Shaker book. I’ve also probably shared with you here on One Writer’s Journal that I never planned to write more than one book about the Shakers. That first book, The Outsider, took years to be published. I had …
The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn’t. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice – by work. – Donna Tartt I was once called a storyteller by a person I respected. I think it was one of the nicest things anybody has ever …
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.” (Charles William Eliot) Sunday I wrote about how some fear we are forgetting how to read because of all our electronic distractions. I do think I may have lost a few reading moments to my phone and …
I just read an internet post that suggests we’ve forgotten how to read. It included this quote from Eric Schmidt, the founder of Google. “I worry that the level of interrupt, the sort of overwhelming rapidity of information … is in fact affecting cognition. It is affecting deeper thinking. I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is …
February has been an interesting month down here on the farm. It all started on the first day of the month. Darrell hadn’t been feeling well, thought he might have a virus, but his group was supposed to sing that Thursday night. He had been looking forward to that, so he felt a little better, got ready and went. He …
Do you remember when you got your first library card? That was a big day for me many, many years ago. When I was a child, our library was one of those built with funding from Andrew Carnegie. It is mind boggling to think of all the lives Carnegie touched by choosing to become a philanthropist and give away 90 …