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Back to Pioneer Days
Saturday I got up planning to get everything done. Well, not everything but lots of things. Painting the outside door facings, touching up paint inside that has been waiting several years for the...
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A Stormy Day
Summertime always brings a few storms. I was just about to go out and pick my blackberries before the birds ate them all and check whether the varmints had been back after the tomatoes, when the sky...
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Caves, Creeks and More
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~John Lubbock Two of the...
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That New Book Smell
I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about that new car smell. And when I was a kid, I remember sniffing my new shoes for that nice new leathery smell. Why not a new book smell? My dad used to accuse me...
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Nature’s Hidden Marvels
Poetry is a fresh morning spiderweb telling a story of moonlight hours of weaving and waiting during a night. (Carl Sandburg) Can you see the spiderweb attached to the purple seed heads of the grass...
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Loving a Giveaway
I’m giving away some books. Well, actually this book. To ten people. I had a lapse of memory and bought an extra box of Love Comes Home when I already had a box of the books. It’s a Rosey Corner book...
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The Great American Eclipse
Are you ready for the eclipse? Here in Kentucky everybody is excited to be in the path where you will be able to see a total or near total eclipse. It’s been billed as “the most exciting 2 minutes, 40...
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That Amazing Solar Eclipse
I’m late with this post. I’ve been late with everything this week since I went off to play last weekend at Cumberland Lake on Sunday and then to watch the eclipse – the total eclipse – at South Union...
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A Story of God’s Love
“Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love, and the future to God’s providence.” ~Augustine I sent out a newsletter last week to help celebrate my new book, These Healing Hills. I...
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“Miracle Girl”
“You can understand why I’m a believer. I have seen miracles.” ~Ben Carson When I sent out my newsletter with a giveaway celebrating my new book, These Healing Hills and invited readers to share...
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Always Right on Time
Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go. ~Genesis 28:15a (NKJ) That promise was given to Jacob when he was dreaming as he was on a journey to find his wife as instructed by his father....
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God Will Make a Way
I’ve got stories and more stories. Beautiful stories of God’s love and care that readers have shared with me and let me share with you. The graphic here is a bit of a passage out of my new book, These...
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Babies in Saddlebags
Photo courtesy of the Frontier Nursing University Archives “When mountain children asked where babies came from, they were told, ‘The nurses bring them in saddlebags.” (Frontier Nursing Service) One of...
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A Dedicated Woman – Mary Breckinridge
Photo courtesy of the Frontier Nursing University Archives “Where the land is rough and steep, nature is not easily conquered even after wild beasts and wilder men have been subdued. …a dogged...
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Saddlebags and Horses
Photo courtesy of the Frontier Nursing University Archives ATTENTION! NURSE GRADUATES WITH A SENSE OF ADVENTURE! YOUR OWN HORSE, YOUR OWN DOG, AND A THOUSAND MILES OF KENTUCKY MOUNTAINS TO SERVE. JOIN...
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Frontier Nursing Stories
Photo courtesy of the Frontier Nursing University archives Photo courtesy of the Frontier Nursing University Archives Last time I wrote about the all important saddlebags the Frontier nurse midwives...
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Are You Ready for a New Mystery Photo Game?
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? ~Henry David Thoreau Do you ever feel as though you might just be spinning in place and not getting anywhere?...
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Love a Mystery Photo
“If a picture is worth a thousand words, then the imagination is worth a thousand pictures.” ― J.E.B. Spredemann Are you ready for another mystery picture? Got your thinking caps on? Ready to laugh...
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A Mystery Surprise
The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. (Ashley Montagu) I’ve done these mystery photo games several times now. I’m always...
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Exercise Your Brain with a New Mystery Photo
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.” — Dr. Seuss And so I can hope my mystery photo game is waking up some brain cells. We all do better with wide awake brains. Well, I guess we do...
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