2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 13
Here’s the 2024 April Poem-A-Day Challenge. For today’s prompt, write a living poem. Some people like to live it up, while others focus solely on being alive. Alive! Alive!”He’s alive and I’m forgiven. Heaven’s gates are open wide.”Words in a country-gospel songabout when Jesus died.It’s written by Don Francisco,(Simon Peter’s point of view),But the words…
BOOK REVIEW – Daddy-Long-Legs
By Jean Webster (Author), Jo Karabasz (Narrator), SAGA Egmont (Publisher) An Audiobook Review Such a sweet story! It is simply chapters of letters that orphan Judy Abbot writes to her unnamed benefactor, who found her in an orphanage and paid for her college education after reading a simple humorous short story she wrote. The only stipulation was that she write…
BOOK REVIEW – Pixie Pushes On.
by Tamara Bundy (Author) Set in the 1940’s, life is hard for most people in America. Men – dads and brothers – are off to war while their families struggle as best they can on rations and victory gardens. Life for Pixie Davidson seems even harder, and she’s carrying around a guilt complex heavier than a…
Prompts: Useful or Waste of Time?
BOOK REVIEW – Now I Lay Me Down to Fight; a Poet Writes Her Way Through Cancer
by Katy Bowser Hutson (Author), Jodi Hays (Illustrator), Tish Harrison Warren (Foreword) A friend gave me this book after learning I too was facing breast cancer. It is a wonderful, visceral, raw, and very helpful book. Katy Bowser Hutson is a writer and poet. She begins the book with “The Week Before Cancer” when she was enjoying attending a writers’ conference. And…
#BLOGANUARY – What are a few of your favorite family traditions? Day 26
Day 26 – A few fave family traditions? —– Holiday meals like Thanksgiving and Christmas, and sometimes New Year’s together. —– Attending Sunday School and Church every week (and loving it). —– Treasure hunts for the little kids at Christmas. Now that the kids, grandkids with some great grandkids live far and wide around the…
BOOK REVIEW – Murder at the Spring Ball: A 1920s Mystery (Lord Edgington Investigates, Book 1)
By Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin What a great start to a fun and very unusual series. I loved the young boarding schoolboy Christopher (16) and his wonderful grandfather, Lord Edgington of Cranley Hall, set in Surrey, England. In this book, we meet them and learn of how their partnership into…
#BLOGANUARY – Do you spend more time thinking about the past or the future? day 5
By Jackie Houchin #Bloganuary is a month of blog prompts that WordPress uses to get us bloggers off to a good start in the new year. Day 5. Do you spend more time thinking about the past or about the future? Past or future? Hahahahahaha! At age 78 the “past” is beginning to fade a…
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