Using everything but the oink

by | Jan 30, 2013 | Friends, Reading

There’s an old farm saying that when you butcher a hog you should use everything but the oink. It’s a more graphic version of “waste not, want not.” I mean, have you had scrapple? Or if not had it, heard what’s in it? Pig parts and...

Atticus Finch vs. Fitzwilliam Darcy

by | Jan 28, 2013 | Reading

I tease my husband sometimes, telling him the only man I’d leave him for is Atticus Finch as played by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird. Not Gregory Peck, mind you (although it’s a close call!), but the fictional Atticus. But then a friend reminded me...

Traditional Publishing Vs. Self-Publishing

by | Jan 25, 2013 | Waiting

I’ve never seriously considered self-publishing even though so many authors are doing it these days. It’s easier than ever and some folks have even been quite successful. Heard of “The Shack?” But it just never appealed to me. And I’ll be...

A Winter Poem

by | Jan 23, 2013 | Miracles, Nature

I don’t know where you are, but here, in Western North Carolina, it’s COLD. Oh, I hear you Canadian friends–a day above freezing is balmy to you. But to me? It’s COLD. The problem is, we had temperatures in the 70s two weeks ago and I caught a...