Kathleen J. Shields's Blog, page 40
July 10, 2014
Dogs – God’s Gift and Teaching Tool
John 3:16 – God gave his only son… That scripture has always meant so much to so many. But the other day, I had an epiphany about it and now, it means even more to me. Recently, I gave my son, my dog Smurphy. He went back to Jesus – and it helped me realize […]
July 4, 2014
Portraits of Bygone Days – An Ode to America
In a recent trip to see my grandfather I came across an old booklet on his shelf. “Portraits of Bygone Days” by Bessie J. Hemp of Frederick, Maryland self-published in a simple handmade booklet in 1973. Within it were poems she had written and desired to share with friends and family and I came across […]
July 1, 2014
Smurphy’s Last Video
In Memory of SMURPHY My Beloved Son Smurphy was a red-haired golden retriever that was left, abandoned by the mail boxes in our neighborhood. When we found him, it took a lot of coaxing to get him to come to us, and quite a while to earn his trust. He soon became MY dog, and […]
June 23, 2014
Car Wash for Dogs
The other day, while in Ohio visiting family, a conversation came up about a car wash in the neighborhood with a dog wash. As a writer and permanent child – can you imagine the visual that popped into my mind? When I was young, I fondly remember a full-service car wash, on Post Oak in […]
June 15, 2014
Troll Patrol – Stopping Bullies, Before They Start
PAWS for Friendship Canyon Lake, TX – Award-winning author, Kathleen J. Shields, releases her latest Hamilton Troll book with the objective of stopping bullies, before they start. In collaboration with local elementary school teachers, Shields’ has created the Troll Patrol with the goal of promoting “PAWS for Friendship”. The mission of “PAWS for Friendship” – […]
June 9, 2014
Advice from the Ocean – A Poem
The other day I came across this picture and I just had to share it – yet I decided to add in my own two cents as well… and since poetry seems to flow through me like air… Be Shore of Yourself When standing on the edge between water and sand, Go ahead and jump, […]
May 29, 2014
Heaven or Hell Paper Folding Project
The other day, while at a tradeshow, I met a couple who taught me something that was way too neat. I had to share it with all of you and I DO hope you try it out as well. They took a sheet of paper. a single letter size sheet and created a story from […]
May 26, 2014
A Blessed Memorial Day
Of all of the reasons, of all of the people, of all of the pictures, and all of the messages… Memorial Day is about this… No caption, no sentence, no title, can say it more appropriately than the feeling you feel in your heart, when you […]
May 21, 2014
Start your own Troll Patrol
What is the Troll Patrol? Hamilton Troll realizes in our next book “Hamilton Troll meets Rudy Rat” (available July 4th) that there are some children out there that are ‘mean’ to others…. You see Rudy Rat wasn’t a very nice rat to the other children. He didn’t know how to make friends so he took their […]
May 16, 2014
Tomorrow will never arrive…
I’ll do it tomorrow. Tomorrow is only a day away. But by the time tomorrow gets here it is already today and so we have to wait for the next tomorrow which never gets here because again, it is today… it is an ever revolving cycle of spinning wheels if you always wait until tomorrow, […]
