Jul 30
Mr. and Mrs. Andrae Ramon Cadoree and Pastor Edwards
Saturday, July 28
Andrae and my daughter Erin were first married in January of 2000 by Pastor Edwards, who is Andrae’s uncle and one of the most amazing pastors I’ve ever met. After their son Bailey, my first grandchild, went to heaven a month after God blessed us [...]
Jul 30
The morning before Erin’s wedding, her sisters Shannon and Sarah, Erin’s friend Jenny, and precious Emma and I all went to the nail salon for a girls’ manicure and pedicure extravaganza.
Emma enjoyed every moment of pampering. I enjoyed every moment of being with my girls. Blessings can shower upon us even in the midst [...]
Jul 23
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Clever. Thought-provoking. Intelligent. A commercial. Go figure. Enjoy. Thanks to Away with Words for the heads up on this.
Jul 21
Morning Poem
Every morning
the world
is created.
Under the orange
sticks of the sun
the heaped
ashes of the night
turn into leaves again
and fasten themselves to the high branches —
and the ponds appear
like black cloth
on which are painted islands
of summer lilies.
If it is your nature
to be happy
you will swim away along the soft trails
for hours, your imagination
alighting everywhere.
And if your spirit
carries [...]
Jul 20
When Death Comes
When death comes
like the hungry bear in autumn
when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse
to buy me, and snaps his purse shut;
when death comes
like the measle pox;
when death comes
like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,
I want to step through the door full of curiosity, wondering;
what is it going to [...]
Jul 19
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”
each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was [...]
Jul 18
i thank You God for most this amazing
day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday;this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings:and of the gay
great [...]
Jul 17
In this game, you have to think of a suitable punning surname for the author of an imaginary book. The most popular example used to be The Broken Window by Eva Brick (which is a pun on ‘heave a brick’).
Can you complete the names for the authors of [...]
Jul 15
Again, thanks to Books and Coffee for blogging about this site: We Feel Fine exploration of human emotion, in six moements
You just have to experience what Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar created there.
And just because it is one of my favorites, here is a link to the poem by the equally splendid mr. cummings.
Jul 14
You just have to go here and trust me.
(and thanks to Books and Coffee for the hook up!)
Jul 14
In case you missed it before…check out PORTRAIT OF A WRITER…INTERRUPTED today for my interview with CHERYL WYATT.
Jul 13
Word of the Day for Friday, July 13, 2007
triskaidekaphobia \tris-ky-dek-uh-FOH-bee-uh\, noun:
A morbid fear of the number 13 or the date Friday the 13th.
Thirteen people, pledged to eliminate triskaidekaphobia, fear of the number 13, today tried to reassure American sufferers by renting a 13 ft plot of land in Brooklyn for 13 cents . . . [...]
Jul 11
“She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.” Proverbs 31:25-26
It’s okay to be a girl.
For reasons I’m too emotionally exhausted and too politically un-astute to discuss, many of us memorized the lyrics to [...]
Jul 09
The following is from:http://www.nikkitate.blogspot.com
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
The Censor is Alive and Well and Living in Saskatchewan
This just in from Sono Nis Press, publisher of Trouble on Tarragon Island…
A librarian at a school in Saskatchewan called to complain about the age level listing for Trouble on Tarragon Island. She said the committee for their school [...]