Since January seems to be my month for book club talks, I decided maybe I should find out more about book clubs. So I googled book clubs and came up with more than 7,850,000 hits. Wow! Then I read a December 2008 article in the NY Times about book club troubles and it said there were perhaps four or five …
A Story of Words
I just talked to a bookclub in New York and one of the questions they asked was “Do you like to read?” That was an easy question. I not only like to read, I feel deprived when life keeps me too busy to read as much as I want. I’m one of those people whose eyes seek out words, on …
A Blank Book
Happy New Year, everybody! Hope 2009 is treating you fine so far and that it will be a year packed full of good things and great joy. We are four days into the year. Have you broken any of your New Year’s resolutions yet? I sent out my occasional newsletter yesterday. (If you’d like to be on my list to …
New Year Journal Entries through the Years
Since it’s New Year’s Eve, I decided to do something a little different for this blog entry. Ever since I first began journaling years ago as a young teen, I’ve written a review of the year past around January first. Then when I began seriously trying to market my writing a few years later at the age of twenty, I …
A Very Good Dog – Watson
It’s been a bad year for my kids’ dogs. First we lost Hank back in the summer. That was my son’s dog. Now Watson, my son-in-law’s big German Shepherd had to be put down on Saturday morning. Last blog, I mentioned he was having some problems and they were taking him to a vet as they came home. For a …
Happy Birthday, Jesus!
Hope you are having a wonderful Christmas Eve. I’m still baking and trying to get everything ready. No need getting done before time, now, is there? A person might get to sit down and not be able to get up. 😉 My daughter and her husband are on the way home, but their big German Shepherd is having some problems …
Christmas Memories on the First Day of Winter
Man, is it cold outside tonight in Kentucky!! We don’t have snow like so many of you do west and north of us, but we’ve got some wind chills. Back when I was a kid, you looked at the thermometer and said it was such and such degree. If the wind was blowing you knew that made it colder, but …
Building a First Snowman
How long has it been since you built a snowman? Even if it’s been years, don’t you still go out and check out every snowfall and automatically rate the snow as good for building snowmen or sledding? We had snow and some ice on Monday night and Tuesday. It started out as icy rain and in the night, changed to …
A December Birthday
I’m writing a day early because one of my grandbabies will be three on Wednesday, and we’re going to help her celebrate tomorrow. It’s hard having a birthday in December when sometimes your special day seems to blend in with Christmas and get overlooked. Or so my daughter-in-law says. Not Katie’s mom, but the other daughter-in-law. Carrie’s birthday is New …
Two Weeks Till Christmas!!!
Do you remember when you were a kid and you counted the days off until Christmas? You always knew exactly how many there were to go. Fourteen, thirteen, twelve and on. Well, this time in two weeks it will be Christmas Eve and many families will be gathering to enjoy the holiday with presents and glittering lights and delicious food. …