Here’s some good advice from kids that will be sure to make you smile while you’re agreeing with the truth of what they say. “Never trust a dog to watch your food.” Patrick, age 10 “When your dad is mad and asks you, ‘Do I look stupid?’ don’t answer.” Hannah, age 9 “Never tell your mom her diet’s not working.” …
Summer Weekends
Oh, those crazy days of summer. Do you remember when you were a kid and how the long weeks of summer stretched out before you when school let out in May or sometimes in June if we’d had a bad winter and missed a lot of school days? You looked forward to time to relax and sleep late and read …
Shaker Sayings
In celebration of my new book about a Shaker girl – The Outsider – coming out in a few weeks (August 1), I’m sharing some of my research with you this week. Here are some sayings attributed to the Shakers. They were a very practical people in many of their ways and they believed in “putting their hands to work …
A Tribute to My Dad
Hope all of you had a wonderful Father’s Day! And that you were able to give your dad a hug and maybe some little gift that he pretended to like. Well, maybe he really liked whatever you got him. My dad never was into gifts that much. He liked for us to come over and make homemade banana ice cream …
The Gift of Joy
This week’s quote has to do with joy. Sometimes we think of joy as being happy, but joy is more than that, deeper than mere happiness. Joy that lasts, that keeps on going and going like that battery Bunny comes from God. So may you know joy all the way to the bone this week and every week. Here’s the …
And then the phone goes crazy
Hi everybody. I know. I know. It’s not Saturday or Sunday, but my computer modem went belly-up last Friday or Saturday. I don’t know which day. Things were so crazy around here last week what with Bible School every night. I already think I don’t have enough hours in the day to get half of what I need to get …
Kids say the darnedest things
Some of you out there probably remember Art Linkletter’s show where he talked to kids and they did say the darnedest things. We were eating in a restaurant here locally where they celebrate t.v. shows from the fifties and sixties and that show was on. You couldn’t hear it so you didn’t really know whether it was funny or not, …
VBS and Finding Time to Get It All Done
Hi again, everybody. Are you like me and not finding enough hours in the day to do everything that needs doing? Truth is, I’ve been letting a lot of things that need doing slip by not done. I’m going to have to get going on cleaning my house soon or well, I guess it’ll just get more in need of …
Quotes to help you keep on keeping on
Here’s a couple of quotes to help you keep on keeping on even if today you’re discouraged. We all get discouraged. Some of us sometimes wonder if we should keep trying to follow our dreams. If success is out there anywhere. So here’s some encouragement. Don’t give up. Keep dreaming. Keep working toward those dreams. “Genius, that power which dazzles …
An Old-fashioned Frolic
Hi everybody. Have you ever been invited to a frolic? My father used to tell us a story about when he was a little boy and his granddaddy invited him to come over for a frolic. His young mind thought up all sorts of interesting and fun things his granddaddy might have planned, but when he got there, his granddaddy …