What is it about a creek like this that makes you want to keep on following it? To see what’s around the next corner. To see where the water goes? ~~ This is my creek. At least as much as any creek can belong to anybody. I don’t say it’s mine just because it’s on my land. I say it’s …
It’s officially spring by the calendar now. And on top of that we’re having this super moon. I went out to look for it a while ago and it must be cloudy. I did see it last night, but not as it was coming up the way I wanted to. I am seeing everybody’s pictures – those people who went …
Today was my mother’s 91st birthday. She has a hard time believing it. Every time we tell her she’s 91, she gives us a look as if we must be crazy. Like there’s no way she could be 91. She’s even more surprised and amazed if we start telling her how old we – her daughters – are. I know …
Easter is late this year – actually almost as late in the year as it can ever be. The Sunday Easter falls on can be anywhere between March 22 and April 25. This year it’s April 24. So most likely the kids won’t have to hunt their Easter eggs in the snow. A couple of years ago all the grandkids …
This is a wild hyacinth from years past. It’s too early for it to be in bloom yet this year, but sometimes we have to anticipate the good things coming. Actually those leaves behind the hyacinth bloom are some of the flowers that bloom earliest – twinleafs. You can see where they get their name. The blooms of that plant …
I love having hometown book launches the way I did today. First off, I get to see people I haven’t seen in months. We live in the same town but the only people I see are those on the same grocery store run schedule as I am. Does that happen for you too? You see the same group of people …
“I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living; it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1901, so today is the anniversary …
At church this morning, I got a nice compliment from a friend. Well, actually a couple of nice comments. One, she said she’d finished my book, Angel Sister in the wee hours of the morning. True, she does have trouble sleeping sometimes, but at least I didn’t put her to sleep. But before she told me that she looked over …
A writer spends a lot of time alone with her keyboard. Well, not exactly alone. She’s surrounded by characters. Sometimes those characters are chatty and ready to get on with their stories, and other times, the characters are obstinate as old mules in going through the gate of an author’s story. But in spite of the imaginary madness spinning around …
“You can kid the world. But not your sister.” (Charlotte Gray) Did you ever read a quote that carried any more truth? Sisters know us and we know them in a way no one else can. Here I am with my mom and my sisters a year or so ago before Mom’s health went downhill last summer. My mother had …