“Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” (William Arthur Ward) Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I definitely don’t want to have a present of gratitude all wrapped up in my thoughts and not present it to those who have blessed me. You, my readers, are a blessing to me – those …
An Easter Sunday
Spring is the perfect season for Easter when everything is putting out new leaves and new flowers and beginning anew. We had a fantastic Easter day here with the weather. My grandkids were all here and it was great that they were able to be outside playing. And of course the Easter egg hunt is always better when they don’t …
Happy Thanksgiving!
–Here’s one of my precious reasons for thanksgiving. I’ve got almost as many little grandbaby blessings to count as I do fingers. Nine beautiful blessings. –I knew I wanted to get married and have children when I was fourteen. I remember thinking about what I wanted to do in life one morning on the school bus and of course, I …
Reasons for Thanksgiving
This is one of my books you might win if you want your name to be in the hat for my Thanksgiving giveaway. Just leave a comment with a way to get in touch with you in case you win or send me an e-mail from my website, https://www.annhgabhart.com/. As those of you who keep up with this blog know, …
Remembering Loved Ones
Hope all of you are having a great Memorial Day weekend as you dwell on happy memories of your loved ones who have passed on. Of course the day originated in the years after the Civil War to honor those soldiers who died during that war. Now we honor our soldiers who have given the supreme price for their country …
Raegan Elizabeth Discovers America!
That new grandbaby is here and she’s a petite sweetheart at five pounds ten ounces and seventeen and a half inches. Both Mom and Raegan Elizabeth are doing well and big sisters and brother are proud and happy. Grammy and Pa haven’t gotten to hold her yet. We were there last night soon after the birth but she needed to …
Christmas Memories on the First Day of Winter
Man, is it cold outside tonight in Kentucky!! We don’t have snow like so many of you do west and north of us, but we’ve got some wind chills. Back when I was a kid, you looked at the thermometer and said it was such and such degree. If the wind was blowing you knew that made it colder, but …
“Are You Famous?”
The Kentucky Book Fair was yesterday. It’s a great event because a lot of readers show up to talk to the many writers (over 120 authors) and buy books. People do their Christmas shopping and come in with lists they have written after searching through the Book Fair catalogue. My book actually made some of those lists and I’m grateful …
A New Book Makes an Optimist out of any Writer
Are you a glass half full or half empty type of person? I want to alway see my glass as half full and the truth of the matter is that my cup is most always running over and as someone more poetic than me once said, “I’m drinking out of the saucer.” I read another take on that from another …