Come On In For a Cup of Coffee

Come On In For a Cup of Coffee

As you and I sit down with a cup of coffee this morning and consider the day, how do you think we should spend it? It’s Saturday. Here in NWArkansas, the sun shines and tree shadows dapple the lawn. A robin is up early, looking for worms to feed those hungry babies he has back home […]

Does It Have to End Here?

Does It Have to End Here?

Does the Story Have to End? The following is by a guest blogger, my sister-in-law Linda Day. This was published a few years ago, but it’s always fresh and new. Haven’t we all felt this way? Reading wasn’t always an enjoyable pastime. Being a tomboy and growing up in a rural area, more interesting adventures […]

Go With What You’ve Got

Go With What You’ve Got

“Go with what you’ve got” is one of those folks sayings Jane, Carolyn, Peg, and I grew up with. Jane brought a long list of others: I really don’t want to get into it now; If I agree with you, we’d both be wrong; I’m supposed o respect my elders but it’s getting harder and […]

What Is the Name of the Flame?

What Is the Name of the Flame?

Almost all of us have something inside of us that keeps us going, some flame, some hope or desire or cherished dream. It’s the reason we look forward to another day, we walk with a spring in our step (or a hitch in our hobble) and have a gleam in our eye. I guess it […]

Wire Briers and Limberlocks

Wire Briers and Limberlocks

“Wire Brier, Limberlock, three geese in a flock. One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.” How many of you heard this or played the game on childish fingers? Jane’s aunt introduced her to the rhyme years ago. I learned it from my mother and passed it on to Matt and then […]

Ramblin’ Rose

Ramblin’ Rose

Two More Days Until the Launch of Grave Heritage! I am pleased to announce this morning, that I am a guest on Janet K. Brown’s blog site. I hope you’ll drop in for a visit. Thanks, Janet, for the opportunity to guest on your blog.  Yesterday was a little of this and a bit of […]