I had a great week as a writer last week. I got offered a contract for a couple of new books. All I have to do is write them. I think this is where I need to start begging for your prayers. The first deadline is a bit sooner than I’d like. I have discovered I’m not the fastest writer …
Things We Can Learn from Man’s (and Woman’s) Best Friend
Things we can learn from our dogs about how to get along in the world — 1. When a loved one comes home, always run to greet them.2. Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstacy.3. Take naps and stretch before rising. (My husband likes taking this advice.)4. Avoid biting when a …
Fun Book Event
It’s Sunday night and my book event this afternoon at the Anderson County Library went great. Thanks to all of you reading friends and family who came out to hear me talk about writing about the Sixties in Small Town, America. In my case, that’s Lawrenceburg. When I decided to re-invent myself as a writer for the third or maybe …
Quote of the Week – Aiming High
I’m adding a new post. Every week, sometime during the week, I’ll be posting a quote that has caught my attention and inspired me to do better, work harder, and/or think happier thoughts. So here’s the first one. “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our …
Showers of April Activities
Isn’t it amazing how quickly the weeks roll by? Here we are in April already. Did any of you get caught on April Fool jokes? My five-year-old granddaughter tried to pull one on me by saying it was going to snow 3 feet. When I looked at her with a bit of disbelief, she quickly changed it to 3 inches. …
Spring Worries & Wayward Cows
Don’t you just love Spring? Of course around here, we’re still mostly waiting to see if Spring is ever going to spring. It has been chilly! The jonquils have bloomed and some of the trees are pushing out blooms, but we need a few warm days. We’ve been having plenty of water. Rain makes the flowers grow, I suppose, but …
Easter Blessings
Happy Easter, everyone! What a great day to be in church with your family around you as we remember the empty tomb! As my preacher, Br. Fred says, Easter is the highlight of our Christian worship. Br. Fred has been preaching at Goshen for twenty plus years, but I never get tired of hearing his great sermons. He should have …
Memories on my Mother’s Birthday
Today is my mother’s birthday. She is 88. She was the second of four sisters. No brothers. Her father was a blacksmith and her mother was a housewife when that word seemed to carry more honor. Now we’re homemakers or domestic engineers or a lot of us are wearing so many hats we don’t know what to call ourselves. Mom …
Snowy Sundays
It appears winter wasn’t quite through with us. Last Sunday was balmy. This Sunday snowy. Our church didn’t have services the same as about three-fourths of the churches in the area. And it just hasn’t seemed like Sunday without going to church to meet and worship with my church family. Actually due to the SC Book Festival and then going …
March Winds are Blowing
Hey, it’s March, and it feels like it here today in Kentucky. Temps in the sixties and a nice strong March wind blowing. Of course, you know what they say in Kentucky. If you don’t like the weather just wait a little while and it’ll change. They say we’ll be having snow flurries by the time the cold front moves …