“Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.” ~Chaim Potok And what’s more fun to talk about while you’re drinking that cup of tea than books? That’s what I got to do today at a “Novel Tea.” I was excited when I got my first e-mail from Lisa Jones, the librarian in Grayson County, KY, saying …
Let the resurrection joy lift us from loneliness and weakness and despair to strength and beauty and happiness. ~Floyd W. Tomkins Churches all over the country celebrated Resurrection morning today. At our little country church, we began the morning with a Sunrise Service. Our pastor has been doing this for a number of years now and he always delivers a …
“ It’s supposed to be hard. If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. The hard…is what makes it great!” -Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own This was a good week for University of Kentucky basketball fans like me and my pastor, Br. Fred. We’re smiling here on Sunday – him with his Kentucky tie and me with …
Cousins are different beautiful flowers in the same garden. ~Anonymous Here are a couple of the beautiful flowers in my garden of grandchildren – two little cousins who enjoyed an early Easter celebration at my house yesterday. We were sort of surprised by the early morning rain. The weather forecasters had said there might be a stray shower. It rained …
Inspiration can appear in many places when you’re brainstorming ideas for titles. The beautiful, fragrant lilac was my inspiration for the title of my first Hollyhill book. The Scent of Lilacs. Almost until it was ready to go into print production, I had the title The Smell of Lilacs. Then I was standing behind the old bus my husband’s quartet …
“Any man who knows all the answers most likely misunderstood the questions.” I certainly can’t claim to know all the answers, so maybe that means I did understand the questions. But for sure, some questions are harder for me to answer than others. Right now I’m struggling with the answer to what is my writing style. Why do I need …
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven. – Ecclesiates 3:1 (KJV) It’s March 21, the second day of Spring by the calendar. Normally, this time of the year we’re having windy and chilly days here in Kentucky with frosts at night and five different kinds of weather in the daytime. We can …
Some of you who know me or have been following my blog for a while know I love basketball. I started listening to the UK Wildcat games when I was just a kid and got my first little transistor radio. I don’t know why. Nobody in my family had ever attended UK or any college. We were a farm family. …
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ~~Henri Matisse Spring – what a beautiful time of the year when hope takes wing and we simply know that something good is going to happen. Actually, official spring is about a week away, but the sun has decided on pushing spring toward us a little earlier this year …
What’s in a name? How many times have you been introduced to somebody and the person’s name made a jet fast trip in one of your ears and out the other? The same with some restaurant or store you hear advertised and plan to remember. Then later, you can’t think of the name of the place for the life of you. Well, my …