This is my beautiful mother enjoying her grandchildren forty years ago. At the time, she was younger than I am now and a very loving grandmother. The grandkids thought she was the best. She let them stand at the sink and wash dishes. She pretended to let them help her make doughnuts. She played Rummy with them and didn’t always …
Penny for Your Thoughts
Yesterday was Wednesday. Oops, I’m just now remembering that was supposed to mean a post here on One Writer’s Journal. So here I am a day late and a dollar short. Well, you never get a dollar’s worth anyway, but maybe a penny’s worth of this and that. A penny might not entice you to read on since a penny …
Editing Down to the Interesting Bits
“I’m a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.” Sarah Vowell > I finished up the editing on the galleys of my Rosey Corner book, Small Town Girl, that will be released in July. Publishing a book with a traditional publisher is often a slow and exacting process. I know there are ways now that a …
Valentines and Hearts
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire What would life be without love? Isn’t it great that we have a day set aside to celebrate love? In of all months, February. That month of the year when those of us in the northern hemisphere are beginning to be weary of winter. The month when …
Celebrations and Cooking
“I think careful cooking is love, don’t you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who’s close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.” ~Julia Child. Every Sunday morning I do a special post on my Facebook page – Sunday morning coming down – where I tell what I’m seeing out my window and sometimes what’s happening …
Every Book Can be a Gift
Each day provides its own gifts. ~Marcus Aurelius One of the daily or weekly gifts I receive are the comments you leave here and on my Facebook author’s page. It’s fun getting to know you and I really enjoy when you share stories from your lives. Take Joye’s comment on my blizzard post Sunday about her dad having to crawl …
The Blizzard of ’94
Snow picture on Ann’s Farm 2013 We’ve had a little snow several times this winter, but it has been a little each time. An inch here. A couple of inches there, or maybe only a trace. We even had a little ice one day but it mostly clung to the trees and didn’t coat the ground. I like snow like …
Paper Airplanes and Homework
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 …