Three Quick Questions

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1. If you had a warning label, what would yours say? Warning: Don’t ask about my grandkids. If you do, I might start hunting pictures on my phone to show you. (I know you didn’t ask, but that’s still a grandkid picture.) 2. What could you give a 40-minute presentation on with absolutely no preparation? I could talk 40 minutes, …

Editing Trails

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It’s been a busy October for me, but that happens. And that’s good, but sometimes I need to remember the quote I once read about being busy from Henry David Thoreau. “It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Ants are certainly forever busy, but they do get what …

The Marvelous Adventure of Reading

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  “Keep reading. It’s one of the most marvelous adventures that anyone can have.” ~Lloyd Alexander Thank all of you for playing my Caption Game. It seemed to get over really quickly, but maybe that was just because the captions you suggested were so fun. I think you had the most fun with my friend showing up at the Shaker …

The Rest of the Story and Another Caption Game Picture

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“I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book.” ― Benedict Cumberbatch All of you are making my Caption Game so much fun. You had some great captions for the first two pictures, but you outdid yourselves for Sunday’s picture. Yeah, I know I accidentally published it on Saturday, but it was supposed to be Sunday’s …

A Picture Can Tell a Story

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Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. ~Allen Klein I hope you are having fun playing my Photo Caption Game. I looked at pictures tonight …

What’s Your Caption for this Girl?

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Caption Picture 2 Thanks to all of you who played my caption game on Sunday’s post. You came up with some good ones. And some that if I had a recording of the conversation at the table those years ago, might even have been what was said. “Who is that in the picture?” That has to be often said when …

A Caption Game & A Homecoming

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Faithful attendance at church meetings brings blessing you can receive in no other way. ~Ezra Taft Benson I enjoy being at church with my church family every Sunday. Our congregation is small in number but we would love to welcome more people into our Christian family. Today we had Homecoming Day to celebrate our church being an organized body of …

When the Meadow Blooms EBook $1.99

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When the Meadow Blooms is available for a special low ebook price this week only. You can download the book for $1.99 or less according to where you like to book shop online. I have some buy links on my website here.  Always look twice before you hit enter when buying a book online to be sure you’re getting the price …

Book Giveaway Chance from Suzanne Woods Fisher

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If you’ve read much inspirational fiction, the name Suzanne Woods Fisher is sure to be one you know. Suzanne is a bestselling author of over 40 books. She’s written numerous Amish themed books, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, children’s stories, and nonfiction. If you don’t know Suzanne’s work already, you can check out more about her and her books on her …

Where Do You Get Your Ideas?

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Where do you get your ideas? That’s a question I’m often asked, especially when I talk to young people. It’s a question I may get asked tonight when I talk to friends and readers at the Henderson County Public Library. I’m so looking forward to being there and trying to come up with answers to whatever questions that might get …