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 …
Romance with Books
“Books in a home with growing children is one of the most important things you can put in a house.” ~ Thomas D. Clark (Kentucky historian and friend) I was a guest blogger over on The Romance Dish this week with a post about “The Romance of Writing.” Lots of good comments came in about what readers liked in the …
Holding the Promise of a Book
Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book. ~Author Unknown I’m excited today about getting the first copy of my new release, Words Spoken True. I’ve had my ear tuned for the UPS truck to bounce into my driveway for several days now because I knew it was close …
Counting Butterflies and Editing Galleys
The butterfly counts not months, but moments, and has time enough. … Rabindranath Tagore We’ve had a beautiful summer here in Kentucky – the first one in several years where we had enough rain to keep the fields green into August. I took a walk this week through our hayfield before my husband mowed it and counted butterflies. Well, not …
Happiness is Another Book
“It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.” (Dale Carnegie) Happiness for me today is thinking about another book written. Another story told – difficult though it was to pry out of my head and onto my computer …
Shopping till I Dropped
Thanksgiving is over and I can no longer pretend Christmas is a long way off. Especially since we’re going to celebrate here the weekend before Christmas. AIII!!! –So I took off on a marathon shopping trip today. First you have to understand that shopping is one of my very least favorite things to do – unless I’m in a bookstore. …
Forgetting the Writer and Living the Story
–This was my aunt’s typewriter that is now mine and has an honored spot in my office. My aunt took a secretarial course at one time and enjoyed learning to type and do shorthand. She was like a granny to me and my sisters and I especially always had fun going to her house and getting to type on her …