Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Summer of Joy”
“Merry Christmas Eve to you. May your heart be filled with the magic of the season.” Have you ever had big plans of good times on Christmas Eve and then you get a cold – dozens of sneezes, a box of tissues, a red nose miserable cold – to spoil everything. In this Christmas scene from Summer of Joy, my …
These are three of my books that have Christmas scenes. While my last Hollyhill book, Summer of Joy, has a title with summer in it, the book has plenty of snow along with Christmas scenes for Jocie and her family. These Healing Hills has snow and Christmas too even though it has its share of autumn weather as well. One …
Jocie Reporting from Hollyhill – the News of Christmas I love it when I get a new notebook for Christmas. All those blank pages just waiting for me to fill them with words. My favorite thing to do. But right now I don’t know where to start. So many good things to write about. So many Christmas blessings. But I’ll …
May we not spend Christmas or observe Christmas but rather keep it. ~ Peter Marshall Christmas Day has come and gone. Seems each year it comes quicker and is overtaken by a New Year just as fast. Since we had our family Christmas gathering early this year, Christmas seemed to come and go faster than ever. But that’s just the traditions and busyness of Christmas. Christmas can dwell …
When we remember a special Christmas, it is not the presents that made it special, but the laughter, the feeling of love, and the togetherness of friends and family that made that Christmas special. ~Catherine Pulsifer Sunday we talked about Candlelight Services, and how much those of us who had been to one of those services liked that worship experience. …
May we not spend Christmas or observe Christmas but rather keep it. ~ Peter Marshall Sometimes people seem to want to stop having Christmas as soon as midnight strikes on Christmas Day, but I think Christmas should last all the way to New Year’s and on as we continue to find joy in focusing our thoughts on a long ago starry …
Have you ever had a dream that seemed so big, so impossible that you were almost afraid to admit you were thinking it? That’s how I was when I was a kid and first decided I wanted to be a writer. I had no idea how I was going to make that happen. I just knew I wanted it more …
Christmas Week 1965 Jocie Brook here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Christmas is almost here. I don’t see how Christmas 1965 can top Christmas 1964, but maybe it will. I guess I’ll have to wait and see. You can read all about that Christmas 1964 and more in the book Summer of Joy. I know, it seems a little weird to have …
We all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summer. The poor get it in the winter. (Bat Masterson) We have had a run of multiple days without the temperature getting up to 32 degrees Fahrenheit. We stayed in the single digits or below zero at nights, and some days didn’t warm up to twenty. …
This summer my first inspirational novel, Scent of Lilacs, has been a free e-book download. You can find it at most e-book sites like Amazon Kindle; Christianbook.com or Barnes & Noble. And if you’ve made that first visit to Hollyhill, you might want to go back for more visits. Those books, Orchard of Hope and Summer of Joy, are on …