Today is release day for Words Spoken True. It’s out there in the world of readers now. The cover is getting great remarks and now to see if what’s between the front and back covers will make you readers happy. I feel like a mother bird watching her baby bird fly off into the great beyond. Well, I really doubt …
Quilts connect the past with the present and the future. This is the bed I sleep in when I stay with Mom overnight. I don’t actually sleep under this quilt. I very carefully fold it down and lay it aside. The quilt is well over 100 years old. It was a gift to my great aunt for her wedding. Her sisters …
A lot of you know I’m a big basketball fan. And living in Kentucky, that means I bleed blue. Ever since I was a kid I’ve been listening to UK play basketball. Been through some exciting times with the Cats and some disappointing times. Right now, things are going well in the Big Blue Nation. We’ve got a good team …
If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. ~Roger Caras I lost my dog, Dub, last year before Christmas. He was a very good dog. A chocolate lab registered by his first owners as Coffee W. Crutcher. Those owners got more dog …
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 …
What do you think of Jessamine here? I don’t often let my heroines have blonde hair. Mostly I want them to have dark hair or auburn hair. It goes back to when I was a kid and everybody was always talking about how cute the blue-eyed, blonde girls were. Me, I wasn’t blonde. Me, I had eyes that couldn’t make …
” Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.” (John Ruskin) Snow is in the forecast for the first time here in 2012. We saw a few snowflakes in December, and this forecast is not calling for much snow either. …
“Never believe in mirrors or newspapers.” (John Osborne – British playwright and producer 1929-1994) Last Wednesday I looked back at 2011. I think it’s good to take stock of where you’ve been but it’s even better to look ahead to where you’re going. A writer can hang onto the last story too long sometimes and not reach out for the new …
A new year is a great time to look back. To take stock. To see where you’ve been and if the roads you chose took you to an expected destination or kept you wandering around in confusion for a while. So that’s what I’m doing tonight – looking back at the writing roads I went down. Some good things happened …
Image credit: jscreationzs For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice. – T.S. Eliot 2012! That sounds so far into the future. Of course it isn’t. It’s actually the here and now. The first day of a new year. Each day will be a new page to write our own stories on. …