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February 16, 2025
Sunday Bookends: More cold weather and switching back and forth between books
It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. The weather is so cold in our area that we are doing our best to conserve heating …
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February 15, 2025
Saturday Afternoon Chat: Small town newspapers and small town vets
Tuesday morning, I watched my neighbor drive by my house and less than two minutes later drive back again. He and his wife run our little county newspaper and Tuesdays are their publication day. In a few minutes, he came back again with his white newspaper van (which we jokingly call the kidnapper van). I’m …
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February 14, 2025
Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing Chapter 5 and 6
Welcome to a serial fiction series of my book Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, a light cozy mystery. You will be able to read chapters of this book each Friday. You can also find a list of chapters HERE. If you don’t want to wait for the next installment or click through each chapter, and would …
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February 13, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot. Come link up with us!
Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog and providing a link so readers can learn more about them. Look for the …
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Classic Movie Impressions: Winter of Fairbanks Jr., Angels Over Broadway
This winter I am watching movies starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. I had to switch movies for this week’s Winter of Fairbanks Jr. because I couldn’t find Chase a Crooked Shadow. Instead I chose Angels Over Broadway, which I found on YouTube. It was a simple movie with a very sweet ending. It definitely had some …
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February 11, 2025
Book Review: Christy by Catherine Marshall
Christy by Catherine Marshall is a very dense book. It is full of life lessons weaved between poetic prose and hard realities of life in the Smokie Mountains in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Following the story of fictional 19-year-old Christy Huddleston, the book is fiction but based, very loosely, on the real-life …
February 9, 2025
Sunday Bookends: He wasn’t even listening and already a DNF book
It’s time for our Sunday morning chat. On Sundays, I ramble about what’s been going on, what the rest of the family and I have been reading and watching, and what I’ve been writing. Some weeks I share what I am listening to. The other day I became overwhelmed with worry that I have failed …
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February 7, 2025
Fiction Friday: Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, Chapters 3 and 4
Welcome to a serial fiction series of my book Gladwynn Grant Gets Her Footing, a light cozy mystery. You will be able to read chapters of this book each Friday. You can also find a list of chapters HERE. If you don’t want to wait for the next installment or click through each chapter, and would …
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February 6, 2025
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot!
Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot February 6 Welcome to the Weekend Traffic Jam Reboot where we offer a place for bloggers to link up and get a fresh set of eyes on their posts. We also feature one blog a week, letting our readers know about the blog and providing a link so readers can learn …
Winter of Fairbanks Jr.: The Exile (1947)
This winter I am watching movies starring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. I had planned to watch Having Wonderful Time, this week but I couldn’t find it streaming anywhere. Instead, I watched The Exile from 1947 after I found it streaming on YouTube. It wasn’t great quality, but it was good enough that I could make out …
