September 2, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Don’t have much time. School has started. Sigh! Oh, I don’t suppose it’s all bad. I get to see my friends and Leigh helped me buy some new clothes. I wore one of the new skirts today. It’s a-line and a neat color of green and it doesn’t look half …
The Whine of the Dentist Drill
August 25, 1965 Jocie Brooke reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky, after a grueling day. Can you guess where I was from the picture? Right! The dentist. Do you like going to the dentist? Not me. Sitting in that chair gives me the shivers. I want to put my hand over my mouth and say no thanks. But Dad said I had …
Mushroom Spotting and Bailey Makes His Escape
August 18, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. What do you think about these toadstools? Aren’t they something? Dad says he might put the picture in Banner if news doesn’t pick up. News never picks up in Hollyhill. Never. The most exciting thing that happened all summer was Mr. Wallace’s cows got out day before yesterday, and were …
Cloud Pictures, What Do You See?
August 11, 1965 Jocie Brooke here, reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Do you like trying to see things in clouds? I do sometimes. I took this picture. Well, not really on purpose. Zella would have a fit if she thought I was wasting film on clouds, but I slipped when I was trying to take a cow picture for the paper …
Can You Give Me a Name?
August 4, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s hot. Really hot. In the nineties. Aunt Love says it’s supposed to be hot like this in August. I guess she should know. She’s been around for a lot of Augusts. Wes, on the other hand, says it’s never this hot on Jupiter – too far from the sun, …
Words in a Jam
July 28, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. You remember those blackberries I talked about picking last week. Well, they’re in a jam now. (Ha. Ha.) Wes says I’m getting to be a regular comedian. I tell him that’s only because I hang around with him so much. He laughs about that. Says a Jupiterian has to have …
Have you ever picked blackberries over in the field?
July 21, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Holly County. Guess what I did last weekend? Right. Went blackberry picking on Miss Sally’s farm. She thought it would be too late to find any, but they must have been waiting for the rain and so had to wait a little longer to get ripe. Miss Sally said she’d teach me …
Bailey’s Bug – What Happens Next?
July 14, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Do you like my dog friend? I’ve been taking lots of pictures of dogs to try to find one that looks like Bailey in the book I’m writing. This one isn’t right. The one last week was closer. But it’s fun taking pictures of all the dogs I meet and …
Have You Ever Written a Book?
July 7, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill or maybe I should say reporting from Imagination Land. You have to have imagination to write a book, don’t you? Page after page of made up stuff. At least that’s what I’m guessing you have to have. I can’t say for sure since I’ve never written a book. Oh, I’ve written …
What Stories Have You Read that Make You Want to Write?
June 30, 1965 Jocie Brooke reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky on the last day of June. I hate June to end so soon. That means just one more full month before school starts again. Ugh! But Dad says I shouldn’t be looking ahead, but enjoying each day that the Lord gives me. The present is like a gift. You know, present …