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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 …
I had a birthday last Friday. I love birthdays. I don’t particularly like counting them, but I like celebrating the gift of another year coming my way. The day before my birthday last week, I put a “Throwback Thursday” picture on my Facebook page of me with a dog named Jody. I mentioned that he was the best birthday gift …
Grandparents are a family’s greatest treasure, the founders of a loving legacy, The greatest storytellers, the keepers of traditions that linger on in cherished memory. Grandparents are the family’s strong foundation. Their very special love sets them apart. Through happiness and sorrow, through their special love and caring, grandparents keep a family close at heart. ~Unknown Source Did you know last …
I’ve been having so much fun reading through all the entries in my newsletter giveaway. If you got the newsletter, any email in answer to it got you an entry, but for fun I asked people to come up with things to add to my Parting Shots of ways that might prove you are a country girl. And boy, …
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ~Barbara Kingsolver A few years ago I did an interview with a writer who said very emphatically that he never read fiction. He didn’t like fiction. True stories were all that he ever read or wanted …
What did you like best about going back to school in the fall or actually late summer around our way these days? When I was a kid, school usually started the day after Labor Day. That seemed the official end of summer. I was always ready to go back to school and …
When something goes wrong in your life, just yell “plot twist” and keep moving. Sometimes you think you have everything under control. You’ve got something to do that you’re looking forward to the way I was looking forward to going to Rowan County Library Wenesday to talk to readers and writers. I packed up some books in case I could …
You might be a country girl if … …you ever caught a jar of lightning bugs and wanted to use it for a night light but let them fly free instead. I sent out a newsletter last week. I always put some Parting Shots at the end that I hope will make readers smile. This time I added some reasons …
“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life.” ~Sidney Sheldon (1917-2007; American writer) I love libraries, especially the library in my hometown because without that library I doubt I would have ever been able to realize my dream …
It could mean many things, according to the wealth of myth surrounding this night flyer. The note of the whippoorwill borne over the fields is the voice with which the woods and moonlight woo me. –Henry David Thoreau (1817–62), American Writer Summer is sliding past. School has started here in my county. Much earlier than it used to when I …