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Thanks to all of you who played along with my rewriting the old proverbs game. You came up with some great rewrites – some that were smile-worthy with a fun twist and others that had some good wisdom added. The Bible has a whole book of proverbs full of wisdom. A good definition of a biblical proverb is “a short …
Proverbs are the children of experience. (An English Proverb) Thank you all so much for playing my Rewrite the Proverbs Game. I hope you are having fun with it and with exercising your imagination. We all need to exercise and an imagination is one of the best things to exercise. That’s what we do when we read a novel or …
Proverbs are the wisdom of the street. Thank you all for sharing your thoughts on Wednesday’s proverb post. I enjoyed reading all your thoughts and rewrites of the familiar proverbs. One that several of you chose to edit a bit was about the pesky squeaky wheel that gets the oil or grease. Some of you were ready to …
Thanks to all of you for jumping into this new game with enthusiasm and smiles. I need to come up with a name for the game. Any suggestions? All I can think of is Rewrite the Proverb Game. That could be because rewriting is always part of my writing game. When I’m working on a new book the way I …
Proverbs are the wisdom of the street. (A proverb about proverbs) I’m sure most of you knew most of the usual endings to the familiar proverbs in my last post that got amusing new endings by the kids. But in case you didn’t, here they are in parenthesis beside the kids’ answers. At least these are what sounds right to …
Do you remember that guy on the Popeye cartoons who always said he wanted a hamburger on Tuesday when it was Wednesday or something? Oops, looks like I’m not remembering it too well myself. So, of course, I had to go look it up. His name was J. Wellington Wimpy and his famous hamburger line was “I’d gladly pay you …
“Snowmen fall from heaven… unassembled.” – Unknown Here in my part of the world we’ve had snow this week with a half inch of ice on top of those six inches and then about two or three inches on top of that! In recent years we’ve had mild winters where we might get a little snow, but it never lasted …
“Do you like to read?” Years ago, I was first asked that question by a member of a New York book club I was visiting via phone. Since it was back in 2009, they may have read my first Shaker book, The Outsider, or it might have been Angel Sister. one of my books that has been a popular book …
Snow! You either love it, endure it, or hate it. Or maybe like me, you like it sometimes, maybe even most of the time, but get tired of it if the snow overstays its welcome. I’m sort of the one good snow a year and that’s enough, but I know some people love snow so much they want the ground …
Happy New Year! Can you believe it is actually 2025? Two thousand twenty-five. If you are just a youngster, say 50 or younger, you’re probably thinking of course it’s 2025. You might have been just a kid when we switched from 1900 something to 2000 something. For some of us that came a little later in life and was a …