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Happy Happy Book News!
Happy happy! That’s me after last week. An author spends a lot of time shut away in her office with imaginary friends. Sometimes those friends don’t play nice and make the writing hard. Other times...
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What Makes You Pick Up a New Book?
Always fun to actually hold the first copy of a new book in my hand. Of course, I’ve already read it umpteen times while I was writing and editing the story, so I don’t sit down and read it again when...
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Let’s Go to the Creek
If you want to relax, watch the clouds pass by if you’re laying on the grass, or sit in front of the creek; just doing nothing and having those still moments is what really rejuvenates the body....
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In the Good Ol’ Summertime
“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” -Henry James Do you remember how you looked forward to summer vacation when you...
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A Day for Dads
Happy Father’s Day! My dad has been gone for over thirty years, but he is still here in my memories and my heart. He was a good dad. He worked hard on our farm and expected my sisters and me to do our...
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The Best Summers Ever
“Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August.” (Jenny Han) When I sent out a newsletter with a June giveaway, I invited those who entered to share something about...
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The Bible, Butterflies and Babies
Jocie Brooks here reporting from Hollyhill. I know it’s been a while. You can’t believe how busy a high school girl can get. You’d think I’d have all the time in the world. At least that’s what Dad...
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What Say You about Summer?
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of...
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Mama for the First Time
Today is my eldest son’s birthday. He came into the world and changed everything for me, even more than things had already changed when I married. Of course, if you are in the family way as the older...
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Historic Osage Orange Tree Photo Op
Fort Harrod, the first pioneer settlement in Kentucky in 1774, has been reconstructed as a history park in Harrodsburg, Kentucky. You can go tour the fort and see how those first pioneers lived....
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Fireworks and the Fourth
“One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One nation evermore.” (Oliver Wendell Holmes) Do you make it a point to see fireworks somewhere every year on the Fourth of July? We used to always take the...
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Ready? Set. Play. A New Mystery Photo Game
No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye. ~Elizabeth Bowen Are you ready for a little fun? So how about a new mystery photo game? I’ve been looking at everything with narrowed eyes this week...
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Mystery Spots and Pet Photo Day
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. ~R. Buckminster Fuller Okay, so my first picture wasn’t quite as mysterious as I had hoped. A lot of you got it right...
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Winners All Around
“Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you...
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Loving Berries – Straw and Black
I love berries. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, black berries, anything with an ‘errie’ in it! ~Jordin Sparks I’m late to the mystery photo game tonight because the kids came out to go...
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Mystery Picture = Imagination Exercise
If it can’t be fried in bacon grease, it ain’t worth cooking, let alone eating. ~ Southern proverb Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~ Doug...
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One More Mystery Photo
“I love to see the sunshine on the wings of the Dragonflies… there is magic in it.” ~Ama H. Vanniarachchy And so we are down to our last mystery photo for this Mystery Photo Game. We’ll play again but...
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Nature’s Beauty Is No Mystery
Sometimes something can look beautiful just because it’s different in some way from the other things around it. One red petunia in a window box will look very beautiful if all the rest of them are...
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These Healing Hills Wins!
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr. I love it when I can share some good news about one of my books with...
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An Uncommon Idea
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. ~Norman Cousins I’ve told you before how much I owe to libraries in helping to form me into a writer of...
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