I love to listen to people tell stories. That could be because I’ve been called a storyteller, but I usually tell my stories with my fingers on a keyboard. My stories are generally printed in books and sometimes read aloud by a narrator on audio books. These Healing Hills has just been released on audio books. I talked to the …
Birthday Stories and the Birthday Giveaway Winners!
This picture is a few years old. My grandson is taller than me now and I can’t pick up both the little ones anymore, but this is the last birthday photo I have of me. Grandkids make a birthday fun, but now my birthday month has come to an end. It’s October. That means it’s time to pick winners in …
Winners, Deadlines and Notebooks
A pen and a notebook still work. Years and years ago, when I first began writing, that was the way I started – with a wirebound notebook and an ink pen. Not a ballpoint like this, but a real fountain pen that I filled up out of a little glass jar of ink. The jar had a little well at …
Dementia – The Memory Thief
Me and Mom “In Alzheimer’s [disease] the mind dies first: Names, dates, places-the interior scrapbook of an entire life-fade into mists of nonrecognition.” – Matt Clark My mother has dementia. Perhaps not quite the same as Alzheimer’s but definitely closely related like fraternal twins. I haven’t studied up on any of it, but I have seen the memory thieves in …
A Blank Page Full of Possibilities
A leaf covered wagon road through a woods can be a path of possibilities to a hiker. Who knows what might be around the bend? Deer or a hawk whistling a warning to the woods inhabitants below or a beautifully decked out maple tree. Perhaps there will be nothing but more of the same, but in this case the same …