I just got home from spending a couple of days with my grandkids while their parents went on a business/relaxation trip. They take this trip every year and for the past several years I’ve gone up to their house to hold down the fort. Well, last year, the kids came to my house. My husband was out of town that …
Eating Meetings
“Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” ~Voltaire At my little church, we often have what we call “eating meetings.” The practice of sharing meals seems to strengthen our fellowship, and the food’s pretty good too. There’s little better than an old-fashioned dinner on the …
Staying Warm the Oldtime Way
We’re having a cold snap here in Kentucky. Of course, it’s supposed to be cold in January in Kentucky. But it’s not cold all the time. We have days mixed in that are almost pleasant with sunshine and temperatures way above snow weather. Then we’ll plunge back into the freezer. We’re in one of those freezer weeks now with temperatures …
The Girl in the Picture
Some things are keepsakes that can’t be gotten rid of even though they have no real value other than sentimental attachment. This picture is one of those things here at my mother’s house that my sisters and I would never be able to throw away. When we were children, the picture hung in the corner of our aunt’s living room. It …
Inviting You to Hollyhill
It won’t be very many more weeks until Scent of Lilacs, my first inspirational fiction book will be available again for readers. The book has been out of print for several years, but in March it will hit the store shelves with a brand new cover. Some of you have already read my Hollyhill books and I thank you for …
The Audacity to Begin Again
“In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.” ~Johann Wolfgang von Goeth Tomorrow I will begin. I will sit in front of my computer and think of all the blank pages ahead of me. I will invent characters. I will imagine love and despair. I will seek action and listen to see if …
Leaving Happy Tracks
“The footprints you leave behind will influence others. There is no person who at some time, somewhere, somehow, does not lead another.” ~Unknown Freshly fallen snow seems to shout an invitation to get out and see what wildlife tracks might be found. But you can’t search for tracks without your own footsteps giving evidence that a two-legged animal has been …
Ready, Set, Type!
And so 2013 has begun. Tomorrow starts the first full week. Most everybody has gone back to work and the kids are hitting the books again. Guess it’s time for this writer to start making a book again. Time to think about new characters or about how the old characters have changed as the years have passed since I’m going …
Dream Big
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark. ~Michelangelo At this time of the year, everybody talks about making New Years’ resolutions. Here are some you might hear or even make yourself. Lose weight. Eat healthier foods. Exercise more. …
Snow, 2013, and Winners
2013. Now that’s a number that can make you sit up and take notice. I don’t know why, but it just seems more in the future than 2012. Maybe that’s because it is – in the future. The year to come. A year full of the unknown. Good unknowns. Perhaps not so good unknowns. Would you like to know what …