Yesterday, my publisher sent a most encouraging word: watch for the proof of By the Fright of the Silvery Moon to arrive in the mail today. Wow! That’s exciting because the proof will look exactly like the published book will look. Once again, thank you for the pre-orders of the Kindle book on Amazon. You […]

A Nice, Warm, Old-Fashioned Kind of Day
Yesterday was a warm, old-fashioned kind of day–well, actually, it was hot! And, guess what happened? My air conditioner stopped putting out cool air. This is the third time this summer that it has just given up. Is it old and tired? Is the heat too much for it? Have I not been properly grateful […]

With Mud On Our Faces
How many times, did we, as parents, pick up our children when they fell, dust them off, clean the mud off their faces, give them a hug and tell them everything would be all right? We didn’t look at them and say they had to get all tidied and neat before they came to us […]

Don’t Mess With Second-Guessing Wisdom
Wisdom is something we learn. We’ve all heard that hindsight is 20/20 vision. Right? So, why do we waste so much time looking back? Why is it so easy to be beset with the shoulda woulda coulda syndrome? If anything is a waste of time, it’s second-guessing, wishing we had made a different decision, a […]
Accepting Defeat as a Momentary Setback
In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest– William McKinley. Defeat–we all experience it from time to time. We have a goal in mind, try to reach it, do our utmost to reach it and we fail. The important thing is to get up and try again. Maybe that was the wrong direction to […]


