Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been categorized as “One Writer’s Journal”
“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” ―Roland R Kemler If you have been hanging around here long or follow me on my Facebook page, you already know that I like spotting wildflowers on my walks here on the farm with my dog, Frankie. While I like to stop and get closer looks …
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey. ~Jerry Spinelli “Where do you get your ideas?” I’m guessing that is a question many writers have tried to answer, including Jerry Spinelli in the quote above. Imagination can be a …
“A house without books is like a room without windows.” ― Horace Mann On my Home page here on my website is a line that says my favorite room is a room with windows. Maybe that’s because I too think of stories as windows into other worlds whether I’m the one writing that story or the one reading stories others …
When things become peculiar, frustrating and strange, I think it’s a good time to start painting. ~James Rosenquist I know. I know. He’s talking about a different kind of painting. But that wasn’t the kind of painting I was doing. I’m painting my bathroom. Not exactly the most artistic thing. Truth is, about the only artistic painting I ever did …
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~Norman Cousins I’ve told you before how much I owe to libraries in helping to form me into a writer of books. Without my regular trips to the library when I was a kid, I doubt I would have found as much …
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I love it when I can share some good news about one of my books with you. You may remember that I told you These Healing Hills was a finalist for the Faith, Hope and Love Women’s Fiction Book. Well, These Healing Hills won!! …
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are white, and vice-versa. ~Andy Warhol And so the last mystery is revealed for this session of my Mystery Photo Game. I do hope you …
“I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies… there is magic in it.” ~Ama H. Vanniarachchy And so we are down to our last mystery photo for this Mystery Photo Game. We’ll play again but I have to have time to gather up some more mysterious photos. You people are sometimes hard to trick with my …
If it can’t be fried in bacon grease, it ain’t worth cooking, let alone eating. ~ Southern proverb Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~ Doug Larson I looked for some quotes about bacon and found two I couldn’t resist to go with my Wednesday mystery photo. Yes, quite a …
I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an ‘errie’ in it! ~Jordin Sparks I’m late to the mystery photo game tonight because the kids came out to go blackberry picking tonight. It’s been a very disappointing blackberry season. After the abundance of wild raspberries, I really thought the blackberries would be just as good or better. I …