Thoughts on Ghosts
Halloween is here. it’s my least favorite holiday. I don’t like being scared, and I’ve never had a good costume to wear. The best thing about it the candy when we buy more than we have trick-or-treaters. Speaking of being scared, do you believe in ghosts? I do, mainly because of I Samuel 28 where […]
Thoughts on Packing for Travel
Hubby and I travel a lot. Sometimes he travels alone. Just he and his bicycles. He has a system for his truck where everything is within his reach. Water to drink, snacks (mostly Cheetos), trash sack, tissues, and so on. His system works really well for him until I go along. He has to rearrange […]
Thoughts on my New Book
I’ve just released by fifth self-published book, The Secrets of the Clock. It’s a contemporary tale of three ordinary sisters with extraordinary families. The concept for the book came from a writing exercise at an ICAN writers conference I went to two years ago. The Idaho Creative Authors Network (ICAN) is a group of four […]
A Lesson from a Friend
This past week, a friend passed away. She was 88 and had lived a full life. She was the mover and shaker of the Weiser River Trail, a rail-trail in western Idaho. I met Shirley and her identical twin sister Pattie not long after we moved to Idaho. Hubby loves rail-trails so he was thrilled […]
Thoughts on Being a Handywoman
There’s power in knowing how to do a few things for myself. I remember a woman during my teenage years whose husband died in an accident. She had to go to work for the first time. I heard her tell a customer in front of me that she was still very mad at her husband […]