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Since my first Shaker book, The Outsider, is still on e-book sale for the special low price of $1.99 for a few more days, I’m re-posting a piece I shared about the Shakers’ most famous Shaker song ten or so years ago here. I’m guessing some of you may not have been reading my posts that long or if …
I just sent out a newsletter, and now I’m getting responses from many of my newsletter readers. I love hearing from readers. That’s one reason I like sharing my journal here on One Writer’s Journal because of how some of you often join in the conversation. In the past with my newsletter, I’ve asked for stories about all sorts …
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.” – Pam Brown Happy Father’s Day! I hope you had a great dad and know many other great dads. Dads come in all shapes and sizes. They might be quiet and serious, always ready with good advice. They might like to make jokes and …
“Share your life with others. You will have a joyful life.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita I get notices when someone leaves a review of one of my books on BookBub. Since my new book, A Chance for Kallie Mae, released a couple of months ago, most of the reviews that show up right now are about it. I did see two reviews …
Yesterday was my husband’s birthday. Our daughter and her husband came for a weekend visit to help him celebrate. That’s why I’m late with this post. We didn’t actually have a party. I did arrange a family get together for him on his 70th birthday. That was a lot of fun because all the kids and grandkids were here along …
“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.” ― Carl Sagan And so, another Mystery Photo Game comes to a close. I hope you had fun. I appreciated all of you who took part and did your imagination exercise. I hope it carried you off to somewhere fun. I have to admit …
I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living. It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. ~Dr. Seuss And so we come to the last mystery photo of this Mystery Photo Game. …
We yearn for the beautiful, the unknown, and the mysterious. ~ Issey Miyake The Mystery Photo Game continues. I hope you all are having fun. “The man who has no imagination has no wings.” — Muhammad Ali I’ll make a little edit on Muhammad Ali’s quote and insert woman in there with man. We all need wings and imagination. So …
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none. ~Patrick Modiano Are you ready to stir a little more mystery into your day? Well, if not mystery, how about imagination exercise. I have to admit that sometimes I think my imagination is lagging a little …
“A continuing story is a beautiful thing to me, and mystery is a beautiful thing to me, so if you have a continuing mystery, it’s so beautiful. And you can go deeper and deeper into a story and discover so many things.” ~David Lynch Thanks for all your fun comments and guesses on my first mystery photo. You came up …