March 25, 2013
New snow on the ground this morning and I hope it is the last of the season, but at the same time it is achingly beautiful. The world is frosted white and pure for as far as my eye can see. I love it even though I'm tired of it and ready for spring.
I've decided Ivy and Esther needs to act as an addendum to Timeless Star. It is the back story for the Timeless Star quilt. I've never quite seen anything like it in a novel but I think there is no rule against it. An addendum, I mean. Jamie will get the book formatted and it will be ready to send off to the printer. Oh happy day!
So, we have to plan our sales program for Timeless Star and I am starting to think about the next book. It is going to be about Caroline and Always in Stitches taking part in a Civil War re-enactment. I am excited about learning the ins and outs the re-enactors go through behind and before the scenes.
Monday, March 25, 2013
All about change . . .
March 25, 2013
Not the kind of change you carry around in your purse, but the kind that occurs in your head.
I have decided Ivy and Esther needs to be an addendum to Timeless Star. I don't think I've ever seen a novel with an addendum, but I don't think there is any rule against it. So . . . we are going to do it.
Jamie has to format the story and make a few corrections in the first (already formatted) section of Timeless Star, then we will send it to the printer. Oh happy day!
We have been at this off and on for four years. It is time to be done with it and get it out there where people can read it. I'm excited about that.
I've found a man who is willing to take me with him to some re-enactor week ends so I can find out what goes on behind the scenes and in front of the scenes before I start to write. I hope to be ready to write when the fall comes around again but I plan to enjoy summer in the mean time. I have such big plans for my gaarden and swimming and time at Dickie's lake and the farm. I don't want to let the summer get away from me again.
I also have a book abut the loss of my son that I have been working on all year. Haven't decided yet what I'm going to do with it. But I am thinking about it and will decide soon. I might try getting it pulished or I might just have it printed up for the family. I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it.
Not the kind of change you carry around in your purse, but the kind that occurs in your head.
I have decided Ivy and Esther needs to be an addendum to Timeless Star. I don't think I've ever seen a novel with an addendum, but I don't think there is any rule against it. So . . . we are going to do it.
Jamie has to format the story and make a few corrections in the first (already formatted) section of Timeless Star, then we will send it to the printer. Oh happy day!
We have been at this off and on for four years. It is time to be done with it and get it out there where people can read it. I'm excited about that.
I've found a man who is willing to take me with him to some re-enactor week ends so I can find out what goes on behind the scenes and in front of the scenes before I start to write. I hope to be ready to write when the fall comes around again but I plan to enjoy summer in the mean time. I have such big plans for my gaarden and swimming and time at Dickie's lake and the farm. I don't want to let the summer get away from me again.
I also have a book abut the loss of my son that I have been working on all year. Haven't decided yet what I'm going to do with it. But I am thinking about it and will decide soon. I might try getting it pulished or I might just have it printed up for the family. I'm thinking about it. I'm thinking about it.
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Happy St. Patrick's Day
March 17, 2013
I have to be the worst blogger in the history of the Internet, but I am persistant and I'm back again.
April 4, 2012 my son was killed in Afghanistan by a twelve year old suicide bomber. It has been devastating to the entire family to lose him. We are trying to move on but it is very hard. We miss him. He left a wonderful wife and a (now) nineteen month old son behind. War is indeed Hell.
Life does go on and we are trying to move along with it, keeping him in our hearts each day.
Writing and my family have helped me survive this loss. I have a wonderful, new grand daughter who is eleven weeks old. Her parents have named her Shawnessy in memory of her uncle. She is a joy and so are the rest of my grand children. God loves them and so do I.
So... Timeless Star, our second quilting novel will be going to the printer in the next couple of weeks. Jamie, my daughter-in-law and I have finally gotten it together to put the ISBN number and the bar code on the cover.
You are going to love this book. It is a mystery featuring the Quild in the Granary ladies and a few nes folks. Agnes and one of the young shop girls go to a two week quilt retreat where bad guys wreak havoc and generally mess up the weeks for the retreat-goers. Again somebody dies. I think ervery mystery should have a body. Don't you?
Mary Clark, our partner in Crime, has been sick for months after a routine gall bladder surgery became un-routine. Her intestinal track was accidently damaged and she has been healing for months. We have called a meeting to get all of us back into the saddle again.
The next quilting novel is going to involve Civil War re-enactors so I'm planning to spend some time this summer hanging out with them - re-enacters I mean to learn the lingo, etc. I'm looking forward to this and I can promise you there will be a body in the story. Beyond that who knows. Writiing is all about spinning straw iinto gold. We will all have to stay tuned to see what CAroline and the ladies from the guild get into this time.
Our writer's Group is growing like crazy and we will soon be starting our fourth Summer Scribbles writing contest for middle and high school writers. You can see the details on the Writing Group web site so aptly handled by Liz Thompson. The address is http://grovecitywriters.wordpress.com/member/websites . Check it out.
I am trying to get organized and move on with my life and my writing. It has been a long winter and I like most peoppleiin central Ohio am looking forward to spring. I have onion sets ready to go into the garden and lots and lots of work to be done in the yard. Ye Gods!
My goal will be to blog every Sunday and see where that takes us. Cross your fingers for me.
I have to be the worst blogger in the history of the Internet, but I am persistant and I'm back again.
April 4, 2012 my son was killed in Afghanistan by a twelve year old suicide bomber. It has been devastating to the entire family to lose him. We are trying to move on but it is very hard. We miss him. He left a wonderful wife and a (now) nineteen month old son behind. War is indeed Hell.
Life does go on and we are trying to move along with it, keeping him in our hearts each day.
Writing and my family have helped me survive this loss. I have a wonderful, new grand daughter who is eleven weeks old. Her parents have named her Shawnessy in memory of her uncle. She is a joy and so are the rest of my grand children. God loves them and so do I.
So... Timeless Star, our second quilting novel will be going to the printer in the next couple of weeks. Jamie, my daughter-in-law and I have finally gotten it together to put the ISBN number and the bar code on the cover.
You are going to love this book. It is a mystery featuring the Quild in the Granary ladies and a few nes folks. Agnes and one of the young shop girls go to a two week quilt retreat where bad guys wreak havoc and generally mess up the weeks for the retreat-goers. Again somebody dies. I think ervery mystery should have a body. Don't you?
Mary Clark, our partner in Crime, has been sick for months after a routine gall bladder surgery became un-routine. Her intestinal track was accidently damaged and she has been healing for months. We have called a meeting to get all of us back into the saddle again.
The next quilting novel is going to involve Civil War re-enactors so I'm planning to spend some time this summer hanging out with them - re-enacters I mean to learn the lingo, etc. I'm looking forward to this and I can promise you there will be a body in the story. Beyond that who knows. Writiing is all about spinning straw iinto gold. We will all have to stay tuned to see what CAroline and the ladies from the guild get into this time.
Our writer's Group is growing like crazy and we will soon be starting our fourth Summer Scribbles writing contest for middle and high school writers. You can see the details on the Writing Group web site so aptly handled by Liz Thompson. The address is http://grovecitywriters.wordpress.com/member/websites . Check it out.
I am trying to get organized and move on with my life and my writing. It has been a long winter and I like most peoppleiin central Ohio am looking forward to spring. I have onion sets ready to go into the garden and lots and lots of work to be done in the yard. Ye Gods!
My goal will be to blog every Sunday and see where that takes us. Cross your fingers for me.
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
TIME MARCHES ON!
I cannot be the only person shocked by being past the middle of September. I am doing almost anything to keep from actually writing something. I had a really good idea for a new cast of characters and a new series - sort of. I am still working it through in my head. I don't know how it will come out. Not at all if I don't get something on paper.
Mary, Jamie and I are meeting today. Everything is going soooo slow for me. Not that I am a great big help at getting things done. Mary is busy at selling off her shop. Jamie is busy with little Evan, Darlene is busy recovering from a heart attack. I am sort of lost and alone and cannot find my direction.
Our Welcome to the World party is this week end. Official welcome of little Tucker into the world and the family. I hope we have a good time. I hope lots of folks come to eat hamburgers and hot dogs. I'll get back to you about this.
I am missing book signing opportunities. I haven't got the sweet potatoes dug at the garden yet. I am barely stumbling along. Pray for me.
Mary, Jamie and I are meeting today. Everything is going soooo slow for me. Not that I am a great big help at getting things done. Mary is busy at selling off her shop. Jamie is busy with little Evan, Darlene is busy recovering from a heart attack. I am sort of lost and alone and cannot find my direction.
Our Welcome to the World party is this week end. Official welcome of little Tucker into the world and the family. I hope we have a good time. I hope lots of folks come to eat hamburgers and hot dogs. I'll get back to you about this.
I am missing book signing opportunities. I haven't got the sweet potatoes dug at the garden yet. I am barely stumbling along. Pray for me.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
BUSY WEEK
My next job is to learn how to deal with photos on the computer. I have not learned to do this yet. I need to know how it's done. I'm going to ask my daughter in law to teach me. Seems like all the my kids kknow how to do this and I don't.
I am trying to put together a sheet for the writer's group and I can't adjust the size of the photos the way I want to. I just hate that.
The 2011 Summer Scribble contest is officially over. We had a little reception at the library board meeting, thanks to the library board. All the winners showed up and that was really nice. Next year we are doing another book to sell and the picture Janet took of all of them will be the cover. This has turned out better than I imagined it would. This was our second year and we went from 17 entries the first year to almost 50 this year. Who knows what will happen next year. It feels good to encourage upcoming writers.
We are getting very close to sending our new book to the printer. Then we will have to get a book signing tour in operation. I like going out and seeing the ladies. Quilters really are cool people. I'll also have to get busy working on the next book. I have ideas for two. One about the girls during the Civil War and one about an encampment by Civil War re-inactors. I will have to get my rear end into the seat and actually start writing to get that done.
It's very cool this morning. I think fall has snuck up on us. I spent the night doing the night feedings at my daughter's house so she and her husband could get a full night's sleep. Guess which two folks didn't get a full night's sleep --- grandma and the baby. He's such a sweet little thing and I don't even mind being awakened by him.
My son turned himself over to the Army today. He will be gone for most of a year - part of that time in Afghanistan. His wife, his 9 week old son, and the rest of the family will miss him. We love him and we need him to be here. We are doing the best we can.
I am trying to put together a sheet for the writer's group and I can't adjust the size of the photos the way I want to. I just hate that.
The 2011 Summer Scribble contest is officially over. We had a little reception at the library board meeting, thanks to the library board. All the winners showed up and that was really nice. Next year we are doing another book to sell and the picture Janet took of all of them will be the cover. This has turned out better than I imagined it would. This was our second year and we went from 17 entries the first year to almost 50 this year. Who knows what will happen next year. It feels good to encourage upcoming writers.
We are getting very close to sending our new book to the printer. Then we will have to get a book signing tour in operation. I like going out and seeing the ladies. Quilters really are cool people. I'll also have to get busy working on the next book. I have ideas for two. One about the girls during the Civil War and one about an encampment by Civil War re-inactors. I will have to get my rear end into the seat and actually start writing to get that done.
It's very cool this morning. I think fall has snuck up on us. I spent the night doing the night feedings at my daughter's house so she and her husband could get a full night's sleep. Guess which two folks didn't get a full night's sleep --- grandma and the baby. He's such a sweet little thing and I don't even mind being awakened by him.
My son turned himself over to the Army today. He will be gone for most of a year - part of that time in Afghanistan. His wife, his 9 week old son, and the rest of the family will miss him. We love him and we need him to be here. We are doing the best we can.
Monday, September 12, 2011
THE TROUBLE WITH WRITING
is that there are so many much easier things to do. I am finishing up my gardens. Clearing them out and hopefully getting ready to be readier in the spring than I was this spring. I have only two more things I want to "put-up" this year. Apple butter, which my friend Patti is going to help me with, and Apple Jack which I have never done before. Oh, I also have to dig sweet potatoes and onions. My garden was better than last year but not spectacular yet. I am working on it.
My dear friend Darlene is out of the hospital and at her son's house recovering from the heart attack she had lastt week-end. Boy, I was afraid she was going to die, but she didn't thanks to The John McConnell Heart Hospital at Riverside. They truly saved her life and I am grateful.
My son is being deployed - eventually-to Afghanistan and he is leaving us this week.We all hate to see him go. Besides us, he is leaving a wife and seven week old baby here with us. We all will be fine and I will be glad when his deployment is over and he is home for good.
I couldn't watch all the 9-11 stuff on TV during the week end., I couldn't believe it when I saw it the first time. I am not yet ready to see it again. My son said he wanted to watch as much of it as he could so it would all be fresh in his mind when he gets where he is going. The world is a strange and dicey place. My daughter and I are going to change our eating habits while he is gone. We have a year to do it.
I will get serious about the writing when I get my head above the water that seems to be gaining on me.
is that there are so many much easier things to do. I am finishing up my gardens. Clearing them out and hopefully getting ready to be readier in the spring than I was this spring. I have only two more things I want to "put-up" this year. Apple butter, which my friend Patti is going to help me with, and Apple Jack which I have never done before. Oh, I also have to dig sweet potatoes and onions. My garden was better than last year but not spectacular yet. I am working on it.
My dear friend Darlene is out of the hospital and at her son's house recovering from the heart attack she had lastt week-end. Boy, I was afraid she was going to die, but she didn't thanks to The John McConnell Heart Hospital at Riverside. They truly saved her life and I am grateful.
My son is being deployed - eventually-to Afghanistan and he is leaving us this week.We all hate to see him go. Besides us, he is leaving a wife and seven week old baby here with us. We all will be fine and I will be glad when his deployment is over and he is home for good.
I couldn't watch all the 9-11 stuff on TV during the week end., I couldn't believe it when I saw it the first time. I am not yet ready to see it again. My son said he wanted to watch as much of it as he could so it would all be fresh in his mind when he gets where he is going. The world is a strange and dicey place. My daughter and I are going to change our eating habits while he is gone. We have a year to do it.
I will get serious about the writing when I get my head above the water that seems to be gaining on me.
Friday, September 2, 2011
BLOGGING IS LIKE DIETING. I CAN'T SEEM TO STICK WITH IT
Both babies are born. You have no idea how hard this is on the grandmother. Boith are perfect and beautiful. Evan Thomas Hannon and Tucker Allen Chaffin. I am having trouble getting the names right. The babies may have to learn to answer to either. They are perfect and wonderful and I love them both.
Kyleigh is five and has started to kindergarten. Oh she is a sweetheart and got a yellow mark already ( this is not good) Green is good. I asked her what she did and I could have guessed without one hint. Talking during rest time. I know that has always been against school rules, but she doesn't.
So I'm wrapping up the gardens. We had a bumper squash crop and a half bushel of potatoes. Boy, are they good. This is our biggest potato crop so far. I am very pleased. We haven't dug the sweet potatoes yet. That will be on the next trip to the farm.
My fiftieth class reunion was this summer. I had a great time. Some folks who have not showed up in the past came to this one. There must be something magic about the fiftieth. I seriously wonder where the time has gone.A blink of time has passed. It is shocking. It is stunning. Pay attention and try tending to every minute. It gets away fast.
We have passed the one year anniversary of my husband's death. It has been much harder than I ever imgined it would be. It got worse the closer we got to the actual day he passed. I relived the past year and what was happening each day that time last year.
Seems like I have been behind all year and I'm hoping to catch up this next year. Wish me luck.
This blog is supposed to be abut the reading and writing that goes on in my life. Other stuff, too, but I'm trying to chronicle the experiences I have as I try writing things that matter to me. I have decided not to publish BUYING THE FARM AND WHEN DUTY CALLS for sale. I took them to Staples today to have copies made just for the family. We will take them to the farm and have them as part of our family history.
TIMELESS STAR is nearly ready to go to the printer. That will be a big day. It is the second quilting novel and I think people are going to like it. We have had some problems getting it to press but it really is coming soon. We will be setting up signings at guild meeting around central Ohio like we did with Guild in the Granary. We also have a new web site www://doubledpress.com where you can order the books that we have available for your reading pleasure.
I will try very hard to get back to you next week. Stay tuned.
Kyleigh is five and has started to kindergarten. Oh she is a sweetheart and got a yellow mark already ( this is not good) Green is good. I asked her what she did and I could have guessed without one hint. Talking during rest time. I know that has always been against school rules, but she doesn't.
So I'm wrapping up the gardens. We had a bumper squash crop and a half bushel of potatoes. Boy, are they good. This is our biggest potato crop so far. I am very pleased. We haven't dug the sweet potatoes yet. That will be on the next trip to the farm.
My fiftieth class reunion was this summer. I had a great time. Some folks who have not showed up in the past came to this one. There must be something magic about the fiftieth. I seriously wonder where the time has gone.A blink of time has passed. It is shocking. It is stunning. Pay attention and try tending to every minute. It gets away fast.
We have passed the one year anniversary of my husband's death. It has been much harder than I ever imgined it would be. It got worse the closer we got to the actual day he passed. I relived the past year and what was happening each day that time last year.
Seems like I have been behind all year and I'm hoping to catch up this next year. Wish me luck.
This blog is supposed to be abut the reading and writing that goes on in my life. Other stuff, too, but I'm trying to chronicle the experiences I have as I try writing things that matter to me. I have decided not to publish BUYING THE FARM AND WHEN DUTY CALLS for sale. I took them to Staples today to have copies made just for the family. We will take them to the farm and have them as part of our family history.
TIMELESS STAR is nearly ready to go to the printer. That will be a big day. It is the second quilting novel and I think people are going to like it. We have had some problems getting it to press but it really is coming soon. We will be setting up signings at guild meeting around central Ohio like we did with Guild in the Granary. We also have a new web site www://doubledpress.com where you can order the books that we have available for your reading pleasure.
I will try very hard to get back to you next week. Stay tuned.
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