“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.”“What mood is that?”“Last minute panic!” That’s a Calvin & Hobbes quote, fictional characters in a comic series created by Bill Watterson. ~~I’ve always admired people who can come up with something funny everyday in the comic strips. Every day! Even if maybe you …
An Open Notebook
Journal vs. Blog; Blog vs. Journal. Journal – a daily record of happenings. Blog – the word’s not even in my old dictionary. ~~I’ve been writing in journals ever since I was a teenager, but I don’t think I ever wrote it as a daily record of the happenings in my life. I kept a record of my writing life, …
Going Back in Time
~~Here’s a picture I took on my day up in Amish country. The hitching areas were full with no room to spare because the piles of snow had covered up some of the “buggy parking” area. There’s just something about seeing people riding around in buggies that makes a person think about a more peaceful lifestyle even if that might …
A Day in Amish Country
Here I am with some new friends at the Gospel Book Store in Berlin, Ohio. The owners, Eli and Vesta Hochstetler, have a beautiful store there in the heart of Amish country. Vesta is beside me along with two of the store’s employees. Leah, on the left, was very patient and helpful each time I called the store to check …
What Questions Would You Ask?
~~I enjoyed a night with the Southeast Christian Book Club in Louisville on Monday. Here I am with a few of the ladies who got together with me for some extra book talk and fun before the meeting. I was so busy talking during the meeting that I didn’t get any other pictures, but we’re a happy looking bunch, aren’t …
Another Favorite Sunday
~~What’s your favorite way to spend Sunday? We had a good one here with a touch of Spring after the snow last week. Got up in the fifties. Felt like it had been July since it had been that warm. Well, October anyway. The thing about Kentucky weather is that it’s changeable and so it’s unusual not to have some …
Book Club Fun
~~Here I am in the beautiful Brookhaven Christian Book Store last week after a visit to the local book club. Sharon, in the middle, and her daughter, Kristi, have a great store in the London, KY area. I’m there on the right holding my book. ~~Sharon enjoys keeping handcrafted items from local artists for sale in her store. She has …
Gifts of Love
Valentine’s Day has always been one of my favorite holidays. A day for love. I think it moved up on my favorite list when my children were in elementary school and I was room mother for their school holiday parties. I liked it that all the kids got the same number of Valentines so they could all feel like the …
Love Letters
~~Did you ever write any love letters? Or get a love letter? Do you like to read other people’s letters? My daughter has been reading the love letters her mother and father-in-law wrote each other while they were dating. She says they were so in love. ~~When my husband and I were dating, he was off at college and I …
Icicles and Snow Cream
~~We missed most of the snow this go around. Barely got enough snow here to think about it but they got slammed or maybe I should say buried to the north and east of us. I like snow once or twice a year but then I’m ready to move on toward sunshine and flowers. But even though we didn’t get …