“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”~Edith Lovejoy Pierce It’s the first Sunday of the first month of a New Year. 2022. All those twos. In a couple of hundred years people will be able to …
What is Love?
Valentine’s Day is coming. Girls everywhere are thinking of romance and guys are wondering which flowers will make their special girls happy. Or candy. Or whatever they hope will bring smiles. But Valentine’s Day isn’t only for the romantic couples. It can be fun for kids and old folks and all folks. Love comes in many flavors. I’m sending out …
Love Is In the Air
I have found that if you love life, life will love you back. ~Arthur Rubinstein Happy Valentine’s Day! Facebook today has been filled with pictures of flowers and candy and cards as many have shared their romantic gifts. Such fun to see so many happy posts. But some people don’t like Valentine’s Day because it makes them feel lonely. Perhaps …
And the Winners Are
“Winning is only half of it. Having fun is the other half.” (Bum Phillips) Another book celebration comes to an end with winners picked and contacted. You all make my contests so much fun with your stories and comments. Thank you for taking the time to toss your names in my hat for the giveaway drawing. Some of you take …
Jocie Shares a Scene from Summer of Joy
February 17, 1965 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky three days after Valentine’s Day. It’s been snowing and snowing. That’s given me lots of time to think about all the different kinds of love and back to some of the things that happened in those Heart of Hollyhill books I’m in. You know it’s funny that last Hollyhill …
The Spirit of Christmas Giving
“One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don’t clean it up too quickly.” ~Andy Rooney Merry Christmas, everybody! I hope you had one of those glorious messes on your living room floor or if not on your floor then you witnessed the mess of Christmas gift opening …
Valentines and Hearts
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.” – Voltaire What would life be without love? Isn’t it great that we have a day set aside to celebrate love? In of all months, February. That month of the year when those of us in the northern hemisphere are beginning to be weary of winter. The month when …
A Day for Romance
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination. (Voltaire) Happy Valentine’s Day! What makes Valentine’s Day good for you? Candy? Roses? A card with loving words? Maybe sugar candy hearts with “Be Mine” on them. Seems I remember hearing that they had jazzed up and modernized the Valentine messages on candy hearts. So now the sayings on …
Happy Valentine’s Day
Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. This is one of my favorite holidays. For one thing, it’s a great excuse to eat chocolate and I’ve had a sweet tooth ever since I can remember. But what I really like about the day is that it celebrates love. Romantic love for sure, but that’s not all. We recognize love in all its forms. …