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A Dog like Frankie
This week I can celebrate my “gotcha” day for Frankie. Seven years ago I found myself without a dog after my sweet Oscar died of bone cancer. Oscar was only seven. Oscar was the next thing to a perfect...
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The Joy of Thankfulness
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder. ~G.K. Chesterton Tomorrow is Thanksgiving Day. I’ve heard many say it is their favorite...
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1st Sunday Devotional – Patience is a Virtue
“Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.” — Jacob Rees-Mogg When my children were still young and often had to wait for something, such as their mother getting something done for them, I would often...
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Memories of Christmases Past
~When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things — not the great occasions — give off the greatest glow of happiness. –Bob Hope Here it is Wednesday night again and I’m getting...
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A Special Christmas Tree in Love Comes Home
These are three of my books that have Christmas scenes. While my last Hollyhill book, Summer of Joy, has a title with summer in it, the book has plenty of snow along with Christmas scenes for Jocie...
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A Christmas Is Coming Scene from These Healing Hills
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month. ~Harlan Miller I shared a Christmas scene from Love Comes Home on Sunday. Tonight I’m sharing a...
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A Hollyhill Christmas Eve Scene
Photo by Jessica Fadel on Unsplash Photo by Tetiana Bykovels on Unsplash “Merry Christmas Eve to you. May your heart be filled with the magic of the season.” Have you ever had big plans of good times...
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Christmas Joys and Smiles
One of the best thing about sending out a newsletter is getting to hear from so many of you in return. I’ve enjoyed reading about the special Christmas memories and family traditions shared with me. I...
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Winter Wonders I’ve Seen
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different.” – J.B. Priestley I like living in an area where the...
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all!! I hope you have a wonderful day with plenty of love and laughter and the joy of Christmas all around. Christmas magic is silent. You don’t hear it – You feel it. You know...
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Journaling Might Make You Live Longer
“What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.” ~Walter Scott I...
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Two Thousand Twenty Five
Happy New Year! Can you believe it is actually 2025? Two thousand twenty-five. If you are just a youngster, say 50 or younger, you’re probably thinking of course it’s 2025. You might have been just a...
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1st Sunday Devotional – Snow
Snow! You either love it, endure it, or hate it. Or maybe like me, you like it sometimes, maybe even most of the time, but get tired of it if the snow overstays its welcome. I’m sort of the one good...
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“Do You Like to Read?”
“Do you like to read?” Years ago, I was first asked that question by a member of a New York book club I was visiting via phone. Since it was back in 2009, they may have read my first Shaker book, The...
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Want to Build a Snow Dog?
“Snowmen fall from heaven… unassembled.” – Unknown Here in my part of the world we’ve had snow this week with a half inch of ice on top of those six inches and then about two or three inches on top of...
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Some Smiles for Wednesday on Thursday
Do you remember that guy on the Popeye cartoons who always said he wanted a hamburger on Tuesday when it was Wednesday or something? Oops, looks like I’m not remembering it too well myself. So, of...
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A New Game – Proverbs & a Giveaway
Proverbs are the wisdom of the street. (A proverb about proverbs) I’m sure most of you knew most of the usual endings to the familiar proverbs in my last post that got amusing new endings by the kids....
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Rewrite the Proverb Game – Part 2
Thanks to all of you for jumping into this new game with enthusiasm and smiles. I need to come up with a name for the game. Any suggestions? All I can think of is Rewrite the Proverb Game. That could...
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