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Today is National Grandparents Day. President Carter proclaimed the first Sunday after Labor Day to be Grandparents Day in 1978. The history I read says the day originated with a Fayette County, WV housewife, Marian McQuade whose primary motivation was to promote the need to pay attention to lonely elderly people in nursing home. She also hoped having a special …
I just finished reading The Story of Edgar Sawtelle. I love dogs so this seemed a natural for me. And I did enjoy the dog parts of the story. I liked lots of parts of the story. But some of it had me wondering not just about the story, but about me. Now if you’re going to read this book, …
I’ve been thinking about crossroads since I’m trying redo my cover for Angels at the Crossroads. So I’ve been looking at pictures of crossroads and road signs while trying to decide what’s best for Jerry’s story. Someone suggested a new title might be best, but some things can’t be redone. Too many people have already bought the book titled as …
I’m a little nervous about doing this post. SIMB (Shaking in my boots) because I think I’ve had TMB (too many birthdays) to come up with all these shortcuts in the world of texting. See the picture. That’s where I am. Using quills and paper. Actually I’ve advanced all the way up to ballpoint pens and paper. You know the …
Have you ever put something off that you needed to do? Over and over again? For almost a year now I’ve been planning to give my book, Angels at the Crossroads a cover make-over. Angels at the Crossroads is the only non-fiction book I’ve ever written and probably will be the only non-fiction book I’ll ever write. I like making …
Made a run to the post office this afternoon and got the Angel Sister galleys sent in. I know most of you writers would have hit the send button. But I really like my postal workers and wouldn’t want to deprive them of a job. 🙂 That’s only partially true. Actually I haven’t learned how to use the edit tracking …
Most weeks have some good and some bad. When the good is really good you might not notice the bad so much. The same is true for the bad. Bad enough happens and the good fades away. My week was just the normal good and bad. Or you know what. I think it was more like really good. Great even. …
I’m off to a booksigning at noon at the Grand Opening of a Sam’s Club in a neighboring town. People will be there looking for bargains, but we’ll see if they’re looking for bargains in reading. Most of the people I meet looking for bargains in reading tell me they’ve been shopping at yard sales. I had a lady the …
We had a storm last night. The kind of lightning crashes that make a person cringe even when she’s safe inside. And that might make a smart person get up and unplug her computer. But the deadline for my edits on Angel Sister loom, so I kept on working through the lightning flashes. Until – and of course, you guessed …
The twins turn two today. Here they are checking out Oscar or maybe Oscar is checking them out. I’d put a picture of them both looking at me but last time they were here I couldn’t get them to stand still beside one another. Standing still is not their favorite thing. But they do like the dogs – as long …