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Emily’s Amazing Dream Team
Today I have a special guest on One Writer’s Journal. Emily Shanahan. Feel free to check out Emily’s website to read more of her amazing story. I met Emily via the internet after she had read some of...
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A Summertime Scene from Angel Sister
Didn’t Emily share an inspiring story with us about her Dream Team on Sunday? Thanks to all of you who stopped by to read about Emily and the many women who have helped her live her dream of going to...
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The Place Has Gone to the Dogs
“There is no psychiatrist to be found anywhere in the world like a puppy licking your face.” (Ben Williams) Are you a dog person? If you’ve visited me here on my blog or if you join the conversation...
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Fireworks in Hollyhill
July 4, 1966 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. It’s the 4th of July! That means time for parades and fireworks and picnics and sparklers. Sparklers is all the fireworks I actually...
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Do You Remember Summer Reruns?
Do you remember when you only had television through the air by antenna or maybe rabbit ears on the television set? With those rabbit ears, you were always moving them this way or that to try to get a...
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The Trials and Pleasures of Dogsitting
“We can learn so much by observing the way our pets rejoice in life’s simplest moments. For a dog, every morning is Christmas morning. Every walk is the best walk; every meal is the best meal. Take...
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Country Roots and Homemade Jam
I went blackberry picking with my son and his family this afternoon. It’s a good berry year. We were picking wild blackberries over around the hay field so that my daughter-in-law can make jam. Since...
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A Shaker and a Sheriff Story
My last Shaker book, released in 2015, is on e-book sale this week. Price is really good for the rest of today, Sunday. $1.99 or less according to where you buy your e-books. Then the price goes up to...
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Shaker Wednesdays
I’ve reached into my blog archives again tonight with a reworked post of Shaker sayings. The Innocent on e-book sale has me thinking Shakers and it is Shaker Wednesday. Every week on my Facebook...
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Free Book – Scent of Lilacs
Do you like free things? Do you like to read e-books? To get free books it helps to be an e-reader. I know many of you aren’t e-readers, but then some of you are. I do read on my Nook and also on a...
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Just a Swingin’
Front porch swings are the best. My aunt had one when I was a kid and we sat out there on the porch and talked and told stories. When the neighbors stopped by, we spent some visiting time in the swing....
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Sometimes You Need a Rainbow
What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God. ~Rick Warren Things happen...
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Book Giveaway Happening Here
Summer vacation is coming to an end for the grandkids and so I followed through on my promise to take them to the movies before school started yesterday. We barely squeaked it in, but we went to see...
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How Lilacs Made the Title
I love lilacs. I know it’s not lilac season, but it’s the season of free e-books for Scent of Lilacs. It won’t last much longer, so tell your reading friends to go get something for nothing. And so,...
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When the Words Disappear
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. ~Hart Crane Sometimes I feel as though I’m soaked in those...
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Happiness is a Butterfly & Finding “The End”
Happiness is a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) August is a great time for butterflies. I...
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Let It Rain
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. (John Updike) Here in Kentucky we’ve been blessed with abundant rain this summer. Every day kind of rain....
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What’s Good at the Fair?
Have you ever been to a State Fair? In Kentucky, it’s a place where you can find almost anything. Music, rides, horse shows, cattle judging, rabbits and hens in cages, a rooster crowing contest, honey...
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What Can You Get for a Dollar?
If you’re old enough, you might remember when people used to say you couldn’t get anything for a nickel anymore? But now it’s more like you can’t get much for a dollar these days. When I was a kid you...
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All Good Things Come to an End
And so my August Sunday giveaways come to an end. Can you believe that next Sunday is September? Time is speeding by, at least for me, as another birthday is coming my way in September. But I’m...
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