~I made it through the five day “spa” vacation with my four grandkids in WV. In my last post I compared the babysitting time to being at a diet and exercise spa, but that certainly wasn’t all of it. I did lose a couple of pounds according to my very unreliable scale. That’s the best kind of scale to have, …
Double the Exercise!!
–No picture this Sunday since I’m in WV trying to keep up with my four little grandkids up here. Believe me, I’m finding out why the good Lord fixed things to that young people are the mamas and daddies. It’s becoming more than obvious that I might have too many miles on my speedometer to keep up with four kids …
Who to Thank?
~~This is a picture of my mom and my youngest grandbaby and her youngest great grandbaby. ~~I wrote an author’s note for one of my upcoming books thanking the people who had helped make the book possible. I never know for sure who I should thank first. My editor? My agent? My publisher? ~~Then I realized that person – the …
Focusing on a Dream
~~ I took this picture with Steve Ladd at the New Year’s Eve Gospel Concert at Sand Spring Church. My husband’s group, the Patriot Quartet, was singing that night along with several other groups and Steve. Until recently Steve was the tenor for the well known gospel group, Gold City. He gave that position up to start a solo ministry …
So Many Books…
~~ How tall is your “to read” stack? Or maybe your “already read” stack is the tallest? In this stack I’ve got a mix. Some I’ve read. Some I hope to read soon and some I’ve had a while that keep getting pushed to the bottom of the stack by new books. There are even some I might give away …
You Know You Live in the Boonies when..
You know you live in the boonies when the only tracks on your road are from the mailman’s car. You know their slogan. Neither rain nor snow, nor sleet nor dark of night or something like that will delay the mail. There have been a few times the mailman didn’t make it back our road, but most of the time …
Editing The Seeker
~~After Christmas and New Year’s, it’s time to get back into a working routine. Not that I wasn’t working during the holidays. I was working double duty – trying to get things done for Christmas and working on the galleys for my book, The Seeker, due out this summer.~~I like editing and trying to make my story the best it …
Happiness is…
~~Happy New Year! That’s been the greeting of choice for the people I’ve met the last few days. Everybody is wishing everybody else a happy year. Then I heard a radio program this afternoon where a man about to be a daddy was saying that the question he would probably ask his daughter the most was “Are you happy?” We …
2010!! Can You Believe It?
2010 sounds like a title of a sci-fi book. Maybe it has been the title of a sci-fi book. And you know if you had written a book twenty or thirty years ago about all the things we do in 2009 it would have sounded like a sci-fi book. We have Facebook friends we talk to via computers. We want …
Hanging on to the Christmas Spirit
~~Do you think it’s possible to hang on to the Christmas Spirit once all the wrapping has been pulled off the gifts? When you think if you ever see another piece of candy it will be too soon and the Christmas punch has turned sour. When the thought of another ham sandwich makes you cringe while pizza is sounding like …