After a stormy night, winter has paid a return visit. The temperature is only 39, and not supposed to rise above the low 40s today. It is cloudy this morning, dampish, and it wouldn’t surprise me to see a few snowflakes. Maybe this is the last little excursion winter will take into spring. Let’s hope […]
Apr 12, 2014
Who Is Living in Your House?
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As you know, I love to write. If papers were dollars, I’d be a wealthy woman because of all the notebooks and other written material in my house. Several years ago, I began keeping a book for Sara and Nathan. It’s sort of like a journal only it’s all about Sara and Nathan, the things […]
Apr 11, 2014
Goats and Jonquils
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A dove calls through the morning darkness. A bevy of robins rejoice at the start of another day. And, despite all the troubles and problems in this world, hope rises sort of like the jonquils that bloom, year after year. Have you ever noticed the flowers that keep coming up at old house places? Even […]
Apr 10, 2014
Those Cozy Critters!
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It would be hard to over-state how much I appreciate the ladies who meet at my house twice a month to listen, learn, laugh, and help each other sharpen our writing skills. We missed Nancy and hope her grandbaby is soon well. The news around the hundred-year old table went like this: Peg is reading […]
Apr 9, 2014
Shifting Sand or Bedrock?
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This morning, as I look out at the pre-dawn darkness, enjoying a cup of Folgers, I am grateful for peace and the freedom to get up in the morning, turn on the computer, and follow my dream of writing. But, if I turn on the television news, or check out the internet, I realize that […]
Apr 8, 2014
If Not Now, When?
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All my life, I’ve wanted to be a writer. Oh, I did go through phases of wanting to be a nurse or an airline stewardess but deep down in the depths of my heart, I knew that not only did I want to be a writer, I was a writer. I knew it. The trouble was getting others […]
