“Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.” Sir Winston Churchill. I’ve been thinking about defeat and what is considered being defeated or failing and what is considered being a success or successful. By the time a person reaches my age, she or he has probably succeeded […]
Oct 4, 2014
From Sharon Rose Mierke
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Sharon is my Canadian friend and a fellow writer. She is a published writer, many times over. I’ve read a number of her books and, let me tell you, they are worthwhile reading. Amusing, entertaining, and well-written are adjectives that apply to Sharon Rose’s writing. Blog: A shared on-line journal where people can post diary […]
Oct 2, 2014
Holding a Book in Her Hands
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As a guest blogger, Lola Ward, retired English teacher, mom and grandmother, gives her view on the joys of delving into books and the importance of reading to children. At a recent medical appointment the doctor made a comment about the hardcover novel I had brought with me to read in the waiting room. He kindly […]
Apr 21, 2014
The Mystery Deepens
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Decoration Day will soon be here–just next month, in fact. Attending Decoration Day has been our family’s custom for many years–well, actually, I guess for more than a century. It is a celebration of those we’ve loved who have died before us. We go to the cemetery to place flowers on their graves, not because we think their […]
Mar 8, 2014
The Critic On My Shoulder
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My computer desk is cluttered–oh, not big-time piles of stuff, but to some people it would seem messy. Then, I thought about where I left the heroine of my current work in progress yesterday, and, although she has no idea of what is going to happen next, I do, so I considered ways of getting […]
Mar 5, 2014
Curious Wednesday Wanderings
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To continue my saga of the water heater. After calling several people and plaintively pleading that my poor old heater needed help, I found the right person. A Handyman and, let me tell you, if I have further plumbing problems, he’s the one to fix them. He solved the mystery of the heater by phone. […]
