~~ 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 …
~~ 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 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 …
~~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 …
~~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 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 …
~~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 …
These are my favorite Christmas gifts. Nine beautiful grandchildren under the tree. For the last several years we’ve added a new baby in the family every year or almost every year and I always take a picture of the new baby sitting in front of the Christmas tree. Grammy’s favorite gift. So this year we got all the kids to …
People are always doing lists. I do lists too, but mostly about things I don’t want to forget. You know, chores-to-do lists. Grocery lists. Christmas card lists. Gift ideas lists. Birthday lists. One late night comedian has made his lists of ten a big part of his comedy. So I thought I’d jump in on the idea. The ten best …
~I didn’t set out to be a Santa collector. It just happened. Mostly because my daughter enjoys finding neat Santas and giving them to me for Christmas. More than half of my Santas have been gifts from her and her husband. It all started many years ago when all the kids were still living at home, none even thinking about …