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“I Love this Family”
“Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.” – Gail Lumet Buckley My husband and I just got back from a trip with his two brothers and...
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1st Sunday Devotional – With Wings Like Eagles
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren. ~William Henry Hudson As I wrote in my last post, our family went on a short vacation to the Barren River Lake. The lake was beautiful and I...
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A Perfect Fall Day for a Hike
“In every walk with nature, one receives far more than he seeks.” ~John Muir Sometimes in the fall season of the year, you are gifted with a perfect day of sunshine, short sleeve temperatures, and...
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Corncrib Memories
If you’ve been stopping by here to see what I have to say now and again, then you know I’m a country girl. I grew up on a farm where my dad raised beef cattle although we never said beef cattle back...
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When the Meadow Blooms Available for Pre-Order
I just turned in a second round of edits on my upcoming release, When the Meadow Blooms, that will be available May 2, 2022. Normally, at this stage I don’t have to do a great deal of editing except...
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Writing the Stories I Want to Write
“Help me to continue writing through those black moments of discouragement when I feel that nothing I write is good or worthwhile or will ever be read by anyone.” (an excerpt from A Writer’s Prayer by...
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Count Your Blessings
“The love of a family is life’s greatest blessing.” – Eve Burrows I asked you in last Sunday’s post to share something for which you were thankful as a way to enter a drawing to win a choice of one my...
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School Day Memories
“School times end but the memories last forever.” – Unknown I got this message from Nancy about my book, Along a Storied Trail. “Your best book yet!! Keep them coming. I went to a country school in...
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Dad Christmas Stories
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. ~Abbe Prevost I sent out a newsletter last week. If you didn’t get it and would like to read my news, let me know and I’ll send one out to you. In...
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The Wonder of the Story behind “Joy to the World”
Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing. How...
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Memorable Gifts for All the Wrong Reasons
Have you been shopping to find the perfect gifts for your loved ones? Sometimes that perfect gift is illusive and sometimes even when you think you’ve found the very thing that will most please...
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The Most Memorable Gifts for All the Right Reasons
“All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood—all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.” —Penelope Cruz On Christmas...
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The Best Gifts Are Wrapped in Love
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer. ~Lucius Annaeus Seneca The stories some of you sent me of special Christmas memories has been a gift to me....
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Sometimes a Dog Can Be a Best Gift
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one is a life diminished.” ~Dean Koontz I’ve never gotten a dog for Christmas. Got one for my birthday once. The many others all showed up in their...
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Jocie Interviews Her Dad about Christmas when He Was a Kid
December 21, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Christmas is almost here, and I don’t know about you, but I can hardly wait. I love Christmas. So many fun things happening, not...
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Christmas Pageant Fun from Hollyhill
When I married, I started going to the little church where I’m still a member. They always had the children put on a Christmas play. My kids took part when they got old enough to be shepherds, wise...
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Celebrating Christmas with My Characters
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...
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Shakers and Christmas
“Man is a harp with a thousand strings. Touch the spiritual cord of his heart, and lo, with what inspiration he sings!” (Shaker saying) The Shakers didn’t place the same emphasis on special holiday as...
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1st Sunday Devotional – A New Year Awaits
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.”~Edith Lovejoy Pierce It’s the first...
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Taking a Snow Day
“Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” ~Nancy Hatch Woodward. I guess I took a snow day last night before the snow actually started here in...
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