Over the river, and through the wood, / To grandfather’s house we go.” Most people know those first few lines but ask them to recite the rest of the poem and they may get stuck. Its proper title is “The New-England Boy’s Song about Thanksgiving Day” and was written by American poet Lydia Maria Child. […]
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I’m sharing this meme a friend sent me because when I saw it I thought of the schtick I always did when playing Nona at the Winnsboro Center for the Arts. Nona was always looking for her marbles, going thought the audience asking if anyone had seen them. Okay, I was going to write a
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THE BIG EMPTYbyLoren C. Steffy Genre: Western / Rural Fiction / Small TownPublisher: Stoney Creek Publishing GroupDate of Publication: May 25, 2021Number of Pages: 304 pages  Scroll down for the Giveaway! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ When Trace Malloy and Blaine Witherspoon collide on a desolate West Texas highway, their fender bender sets the tone for escalating clashes that
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As if I haven’t had enough losses in my life in recent weeks, my dear friend and writing partner for the Winnsboro history books, Bill Jones, died on Tuesday. He’d had a serious brain bleed that put him in the hospital last week, but he wasn’t a good surgery candidate because of other health issues.
New York Times Bestselling Author Kristy Woodson Harvey, has a new book out TODAY! Christmas In Peachtree Bluff is in stores everywhere Tuesday, October 26th! The fourth book in Kristy’s beloved Peachtree Bluff Series, this book was inspired by her Peachtree fans and is, she hopes, in the words of Mary Kay Andrews, “the kind
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HOLDING ON LOOSELY by DANA KNOX WRIGHT Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / Memoir / Self Help Publisher: Carpenter’s Son / Clovercroft Publishing Date of Publication: August 24, 2021 * 208 pages  Scroll down for giveaway! Helicopter parents. Control freaks. Perfectionists. Intolerants. Over-consumers. Social media junkies. We all fit in there somewhere. Read one woman’s stories of
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ONCE UPON A CAMEL By Kathi Appelt Categories: Middle Grade Fiction / Historical / Friendship / Ages 8-12Publisher: Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy BooksPub Date: September 7, 2021Pages: 336 pages Scroll for the Giveaway! Zada is a camel with a treasure trove of stories to tell. She’s won camel races for the royal Pasha of Smyrna,
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Slim Randles is making a visit to the blog today with a nice story about hunting. My interest in hunting tends to follow that of Jasper in this story. It’s not that I have anything against hunting, and have even done some in my past, but that was more for the pleasure of being outdoors
One of the joys, and sometimes a time-suck, of the Internet is starting with one thing that leads to another, then another, sometimes so many places you forgot where you started. Confused? Yeah, so am I. 🙂 So, this is how it started. I came here yesterday to put a few notes in for today’s
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Every day I fill a small black pan with water for the birds. It sits in my front flowerbed, and I see cardinals and finches that often come and take a drink, but have never been able to get a picture. Either I don’t have my phone with me, or by the time I open
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