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Mining Parenting Memories on Grandparents’ Day
Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children. ~Alex Haley We have Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and we even have a...
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New Caption Game – Marbles, Anyone
Our brains are built to benefit from play no matter what our age. ~Theresa A. Kestly It’s my birthday month so it’s time to have some fun and to give away some books. Of course, you can check out Last...
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Playacting Drama – What’s Your Caption?
The imagination is an essential tool of the mind, a fundamental way of thinking, an indispensable means of becoming and remaining human. ~Ursula K. Le Guin Thanks to all of you who suggested such...
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Sometimes You Have to Save the World – Caption Game
“You start pretending to have fun; you might even have a little by accident.” – Alfred Pennyworth, Batman’s butler and friend The Caption Game continues. This picture and one more and I’m saving the...
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One Card Playing Dog
Creative people are curious, flexible, persistent, and independent with a tremendous spirit of adventure and a love of play. ~Henri Matisse I hope you have enjoyed playing my Caption Game. I’ve...
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Two Stoplight Hometowns
My hometown – where I was born, where I was raised, where I keep all my yesterdays. ~Unknown Author It’s been a busy birthday month for me. I had this fun Caption Game going here on my blog posts, and...
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Loving Our Hometowns
“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” I received so many great shout outs about their hometowns from readers in response to my...
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Hometown Food – Shuck Beans and Chicken Mull
Sometimes the best thing about going home is the food you might find on the dinner table. If that’s going home to a hometown festival, then it can be the special food they are featuring. My little...
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Coming This Week – Fall Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt
Back when you were a kid, did you ever take part in a scavenger hunt? Or maybe you were the one figuring out the clues to make the hunt fun? I’ve done both. When I was a kid, my sisters and I would...
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Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #13
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 the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of...
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Threw a Monkey Wrench into It
Photo by Matt Artz on Unsplash Have you ever heard somebody say something or someone threw a monkey wrench into it or maybe just a wrench into it? Here’s the meaning for that phrase from the free...
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The Simple Pleasures of Autumn
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. Albert Camus Autumn is a beautiful time in Kentucky, but I always want the leaves to cling to the branches of the maples a little longer. Some...
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Moments in Time
Not long ago I got to thinking about the odd moments that can rise from the murky depths of my memory, nudged out to my consciousness by a chance word, an image or even a sniff of some aroma. Sometimes...
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Front Porch Family Talk
“In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf It’s been a tough year for extended families. To get together or not to get together? Events and family gatherings we...
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Tricks or Treats
\ “There is magic in the night when pumpkins glow by moonlight.” Unknown Last night was Halloween. Some people have fun on Halloween. Others don’t like the night at all. These days it’s mostly a fun...
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Every Story Needs a Dog or Cat
When you are a dog lover like me and you write stories to share with readers, you might come up with some four-legged furry characters from time to time. So far I haven’t put Frankie in a story yet,...
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A Murder of Crows
Unsplash photo by Valentin Petkov Crows squawked raucously in the trees. It sounded like they were tearing something apart, something they didn’t even want, just for the fun of destroying it. ~Janet...
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The Eleventh Hour, Eleventh Day, Eleventh Month
The Eleventh Hour is a phrase meaning at the last moment, taken from a passage in the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard in the King James Bible, Matthew 20:1-16. In that story the owner of a...
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Slaying the Dragon to Win Fair Maiden
Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way. ~Phil McGraw Slaying...
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Are You a Little Bit Famous?
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. – John Wooden Some years ago at a book fair a young man who might have been twenty, give or take a...
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