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Listen to the Quiet

This is worth a watch. It is a beautiful, touching, heartrending reminder of what we stand to lose if we don’t wake up and accept the responsibility of stewardship, of caring, of realizing we are not the only ones in this world who matter. https://youtu.be/06uYTjKwS1E?si=4_04qAcDyusg8Ha3

Every Picture Tells a Story

Don’t it? I’m listening to Rod Stewart’s cd of the same name right now. It was a birthday gift, along with Gasoline Alley, Dan Fogelberg’s The Innocent Age, and a FunkoPop Dobby—actually holding a teeny, tiny sock! This past weekend, I celebrated my birthday with all my kids (three sons and two significant others). FourContinueContinue reading “Every Picture Tells a Story”

Crafting with little hands

My kids are all grown and I have fur-baby grandkids. As for the latter, their lack of opposable thumbs means I can’t do Christmas crafting with them. However, for those of you who do have children around at the holiday season, I found this Good Housekeeping article with 50 Easy Christmas Crafts for Kids. SomeContinueContinue reading “Crafting with little hands”

Christmas Tree Advent Calendar

I may have mentioned elsewhere that I love to craft. I used to try selling my crafts on Etsy, but because I love to do so many things I really didn’t have the focus I needed for my shop. One of these days, I might just pick one and get back to it, but inContinueContinue reading “Christmas Tree Advent Calendar”

Crafty Season Has Begun!

And so, it begins. It is November after all. Christmas is next month! Here’s a pretty simple craft I am sharing from my YouTube Channel, Tumble Creek Christmas. I am always in possession of multiple gold-colored cat food cans, thanks to having kitties (crazy, but not childless, cat lady that I am). I like theirContinueContinue reading “Crafty Season Has Begun!”

Humanity

We are all one race: Human. This is a truth. Whether creationist or evolutionist, we all understand we started somewhere, grew into what we are today. I don’t purport to know or understand every religion in the world, but I believe most of them have their theory of creation. We started. We are. What weContinueContinue reading “Humanity”

Girls, Girls, Girls

Okay, I know that title got someone’s attention. More than Old Ladies, Old Ladies, Old Ladies might have at any rate. This past weekend was a “girls’ weekend” with my cousins. None of us are spring chickens. We all called ourselves old ladies multiple times during conversations. Sometimes bemoaning certain facts of our age, sometimesContinueContinue reading “Girls, Girls, Girls”

Release Day

After some unavoidable delay, the finale in my Shadow Journey series is finally out. Saying goodbye to these characters is basically like watching your kids grow up and leave home. Sort of. They are, after all, created by my imagination and not my flesh and blood. Even so, I’ll miss them. However, never fear, nextContinueContinue reading “Release Day”

The series finale! Final-ely

It’s been, if not a long time coming, at least longer than I had originally anticipated. But yes, the finale to the Shadow Journey series, In Darkness We Break, is finally releasing on October 15th! Twenty-twenty-four, in case you need clarification, because I actually could have meant next year. That’s what it felt like, anyway.ContinueContinue reading “The series finale! Final-ely”

Les Mis-adventures!

What a wonderful day I had yesterday. Early on in my posts (perhaps the second I ever made), I talked about a day spent with one of my daughters-in-law–a day spent at yard sales and a garden center (see: The Chicken Teapot and the Fantastically Lovely Day). Well, here’s a post about our day yesterday,ContinueContinue reading “Les Mis-adventures!”