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Last Mystery Picture until Next Time
Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing. ~Christopher Fry I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder:...
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Mysteries Solved – Winners Chosen
Do you know what this is? It’s a hedge apple and this has been a banner year for them. The hedge apple is the fruit of the Osage Orange tree and is a native tree in parts of Texas, Oklahoma and...
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A Long Time Dream
Here’s a bonus blog post this week as Rose McCauley and I share posts. Hers here on my blog and mine over on her blog. Plus, we’re both doing a giveaway. Rose has offered a print copy to a lucky reader...
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My Very Good Dog Oscar
My very first picture of Oscar in 2009 I told you all last summer that my dog, Oscar, had been diagnosed with bone cancer. The vet said it was an aggressive cancer and Oscar maybe had two months. It...
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Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #10
NOTE: THIS HUNT OFFICIALLY BEGINS THURS AT NOON; WE’RE JUST SETTING UP NOW AND WORKING OUT ANY ISSUES! PLEASE RETURN TOMORROW!! Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just...
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Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #10
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all 25 stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of...
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Scavenger Hunt Fun
Plant seeds of happiness, hope, success, and love; it will all come back to you in abundance. This is the law of nature. ~Steve Maraboli The Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt is over. It was a great...
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The Trees Are Turning
Sometime in the 1960s ~ Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Do you love autumn? I do. Almost as much as I love spring. I mean you have to love spring the most. That’s when winter...
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Clouds and Stories
A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden. ~Terri Guillemets Ah, the beautiful sky. A blue sky with nary a cloud is something to be treasured. But at times clouds have a way of making a...
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The Sights You Can See
Do you like to go walking to see what you may see? I’ve loved to go walking ever since I was a kid. I had a special little woods that I claimed as my very own after I was old enough to go exploring on...
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Cover Reveal – River of Redemption
For an author, one of the highlights of a new book’s journey to publication is seeing the cover that is going to be wrapped around the words of your story. In traditional publishing, the publishers...
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When Sorrows like Sea Billows Roll
When peace like a river, attendeth my way, When sorrows like sea billows roll; Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to know It is well, it is well, with my soul. “It Is Well” is a beautiful song and...
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A Moonbeam Award
Before I had the good fortune to find a home with an inspirational book publisher, I wrote a number of books for younger readers. Some of them were what might be called chapter books for middle...
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Kentucky Book Fair Fun on the Way
I love the Kentucky Book Fair and I’m happy I get to be part of the Fair this Saturday, November 18th. Looks as though sometimes even Santa likes being at the Book Fair. 2013 was a good year for Book...
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A Celebration of Love
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year. ~Paul Sweeney Happy anniversary to my husband and to me. We’re...
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JFK – A Sad Day to Remember
November 22, 1964 Jocie Brooke reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s been a sad week here in Hollyhill as everybody was remembering the assassination last year. Dad put this picture on the front...
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Counting Blessings at Thanksgiving
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” ~William Arthur Ward Happy Thanksgiving! Isn’t Thanksgiving one...
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“He’s No Poe”
Meet my new dog, Frankie. He’s very cute, isn’t he? I haven’t been without a dog of my own since I was about eight years old. So, when Oscar died of bone cancer in October, I sort of felt lost. What I...
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Frost Flowers
Have you ever had the opportunity to see frost flowers, also sometimes called ice ribbons, rabbit frost or rabbit ice? I’ve been spotting them around my farm now for several years. I think a new kind...
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The Circle of Love
I finally have my wedding ring back on my finger. Some of you may remember that on a muddy day last spring I slipped and fell while I was walking and broke my ring finger. It was panic time since I was...
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