Did that make you smile? It does me. Smiles are what this post is about. Some of you may check out my Facebook page. If so, you know that I have some regular features on my page on different days. Sunday morning coming down. Tuesday mailbag. Shaker Wednesday. Throwback Thursday. And Friday is smiles day. All day. Some Fridays we have …
Some Things Learned in Life
SOME THINGS LEARNED IN LIFE …that one of the most fun things you can do is take a walk with a grandkid and a dog. …that the best classroom in the world is at the feet of an elderly person. …that just one person saying “You’ve made my day” makes our day! …that having a child fall asleep in your arms …
Smiles Make a Difference
What Sunshine is to Flowers, Smiles are to Humanity. ~Joseph Addison Today was Mother’s Day. A beautiful time to remember Moms everywhere. It was a sad day for some who were missing a mom gone on before them. I still have my mother, but she’s not the mother I’ve known all my life. Dementia has stolen her memories and joy …
Smiles, Memories, and Grandmothers
“A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.” (Charlotte Davis Kasl) My book, Scent of Lilacs, was released for the second time March 1 and I’m celebrating. Scent of Lilacs was my first novel published in the …
Homecoming Smiles
“Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.” Goshen had a great 200th birthday celebration today. Our church was overflowing, something that hasn’t happened our way for a long time. A lot of people who grew up in the church came back to celebrate and remember …
An Award for Enthusiasm
Have you ever been to a kindergarten graduation? Or maybe a preschool graduation? If you want some smiles – the good kind of smiles that make you have hope for the future – then you might want to drop in on one of those ceremonies sometime. I went to one granddaughter’s kindergarten graduation last night and will get to go …
Smiles, Books, and Friends
Lori Copeland, me, and Virginia Smith “Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.” ~ Mother Teresa There was a lot of smiling going on yesterday at the Southern Kentucky Book Fest in Bowling Green, Kentucky as authors and readers gathered to celebrate books. That’s really what book fairs and festivals …
Writing Smiles
“You can’t just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood.”“What mood is that?”“Last minute panic!” That’s a Calvin & Hobbes quote, fictional characters in a comic series created by Bill Watterson. ~~I’ve always admired people who can come up with something funny everyday in the comic strips. Every day! Even if maybe you …
Kindergarten Smiles
Any of the rest of you on dinosaur dial-up internet? I live out in the boonies and so unless I want to go satellite, this is my only choice. But the dinosaur is moving slow tonight. He must be in deep water or maybe those tar pits they talk about on the movies. It’s taken me fifteen minutes to even …
Wednesday Smiles
Hey everybody! Can you believe it is already the last week of September? You blink twice and summer’s gone. I’m afraid to blink again. It might be Christmas and I wouldn’t have those grandbabies a present under the tree. I sometimes have this little mantra going under my breath. “Get organized. Get organized.” Maybe I should change it to “Chill …