A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones. (Proverbs 17:22 NKJ) Usually when I repeat the above Bible verse, I just say the first part of the verse. I like thinking about the good medicine of smiles and laughter, but it’s not as good thinking about those with broken spirits and sadness in their …
The Hunt for One More Yellow Flower
Yellow Flower #30 Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. (Luther Burbank) If you follow the conversation on my Facebook page, you know I’ve been posting yellow flowers. I started around the first of May when I spotted a pretty little mystery yellow flower. A mystery because I didn’t …
January – the Month of Dreary or the Month of Beginnings?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. (Edgar Allen Poe) Can’t you imagine Poe writing that on a January Monday midnight?Chilled to the bone and unhappy, but with pen in hand? I hope you’re not cold or unhappy. But let me ask you. Do you like winter? Do you like January? Or is it the month …
Do You Need a Smile Today?
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 …