Just Heard About . . .

A book called "Emerson the Magnificent." It's suppose to be good, and I can't wait to order it. For ages 8 to 80. If I like it, I'll post a review for you so you can enjoy it too! Published by Lighthouse Publishing. Feel free to check it out before me. I won't harp!



Quote:
Concentrate on finding your goal, then concentrate on reaching it! --Col. Michael Friedman

Hard at work and . . .
Blessings to you all!

Gotta Say

I'm glad to be home. We've had such an hectic, busy spring and summer, that I think I must be Atlas shedding the world.

For a month or more, I had little time to concentrate on my writing. BUT back to it I'm headed. Got a fresh start. Some inspiration. Some ideas. And I'm in the race again.

• Back to hitting my cult novel hard.
• Back to cutting a suspense down to fit a certain publisher.
• Back to adding words to a romance for another publisher.
• Back to picking up a mystery that was set on a shelf (due to target publisher closing it's doors), and turning it into a suspense. That shouldn't be hard since it was almost that anyway!
• Working on the second in a series on my historical suspense.
• Plotting a couple other ideas.

Got lots to do. Just thought I'd update you all.

By the way, where are you?

Quote:
My will shall shape my future. Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. --Elaine Maxwell

Smiles and tons of blessings!

Ponderous Thoughts


Chapter headings taken from Mrs. Miracle by Debbie Macomber:

1. A lot of people want to serve God, but only in an advisory capacity.
2. The best way to get even is to forget.
3. Feed your faith and doubts will starve to death.

4. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
5. Some folks wear their halos much too tight.
6. Some marriages are made in heaven, but they all have to be maintained on earth.

7. Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up.
8. Pick your friends, but not to pieces.
9. Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides (Margaret Thatcher)

10. Those who bury their talents make a grave mistake.
11. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
12. Words are the windows to the heart.

13. A skeptic is a person, who when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it’s a forgery (Morris Bender)
14. It isn’t difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill. Just add a little dirt.
15. A successful marriage isn’t finding the right person; it’s being the right person.
16. Scatter Sonshine

17. All things are possible with God, but no one said they’d be easy.
18. People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.
19. The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.
20. Too many people offer God prayers with claw marks all over them.

21. The tongue must be heavy indeed, for so few people can hold it.
22. To forgive is to set the prisoner free and then discover the prisoner was you.
23. You have to wonder about people. They think God is dead and Elvis is alive.

24. Swallowing angry words is much more palatable than having to eat them afterward.
25. There’s a reason a dog has so many friends: he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
26. Love looks through a telescope, not a microscope.

27. It’s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you’re finished.
28. A turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck.
29. If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can believe the water bill is higher.

Quote:

Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits. --Thomas Edison

Blessings!

Useless, But Interesting

Stewardesses' is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

And 'lollipop' is the longest word typed with your right hand.
(Bet you tried this out mentally, didn't you?)

No word in the English language rhymes

with month , orange, silver, or purple.

' Dreamt' is the only English word that ends in the letters 'mt'.

(Are you doubting this?)

Our eyes are always the same size from birth,

ut our nose and ears never stop growing.

The sentence: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'

uses every letter of the alphabet.

(Check it out!)

The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same
whether they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).

There are only four words in the English language which end in 'dous': tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
(You're not possibly doubting this, are you ?)

There are two words in the English language

that have all five vowels in order: 'abstemious' and 'facetious.'

( a e i o u)

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made

using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

(Come on, get those keypads out and see for yourself.)

A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

.
(Some days that's about what my memory span is.)

A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.

A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.

A snail can sleep for three years.

(I know some people that could do this too.!)

Almonds are a member of the peach family.

An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
(I know some people like that also .

Actually I know A LOT of people like this!)

Babies are born without kneecaps.

They don't appear until the child reaches 2 to 6 years of age.

February 1865 is the only month in recorded history
not to have a full moon.

In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

If the population of China walked past you, 8 abreast,

the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction.

Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite!

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

The cruise liner, QE 2,moves only six inches

for each gallon of diesel that it burns.

The microwave was invented after a researcher

walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
(Good thing he did that.)

The winter of 1932 was so cold that

Niagara Falls froze completely solid.

There are more chickens than people in the world.

Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Now you know more than you did before you read this post.

Quote: One of the greatest gifts adults can give to their offspring and to society, is to read to children. --Carl Sagan

Blessings!

Stress Management

Totally for fun and a good laugh!
Enjoy. (and, er, read at your own risk!)

Just in case you are having a rough day, here is a stress management technique recommended in all the latest Psychological journals.

1. Picture yourself lying on your belly on a warm rock that hangs out over a crystal clear stream.

2. Picture yourself with both your hands dangling in the cool running water.

3. Birds are sweetly singing in the cool mountain air.

4. No one knows your secret place.

5. You are in total seclusion from that hectic place called the world.

6. The soothing sound of a gentle water fall fills the air with a cascade of serenity.

7. The water is so crystal clear that you can easily make out the face of the person you are holding underwater.

There!! See? It really does work. You're smiling already.



Quote:
Success is simple: do what's right the right way at the right time. --Arnold Glasgow

Blessings

Rites of Passage

Regardless of what you think about it, it has merit. Hope you enjoy it today!

Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage?

His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it.

He cannot cry out for help to anyone.

Once he survives the night, he is a MAN.

He cannot tell the other boys of this experience,

because each lad must come into manhood on his own.

The boy is naturally terrified.

He can hear all kinds of noises.

Wild beasts must surely be all around him.

Maybe even some human might do him harm.

The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump,

but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold.

It would be the only way he could become a man!

Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared

and he removed his blindfold.

It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night,

protecting his son from harm.

We, too, are never alone.

Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us,

sitting on the stump beside us.

When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.

Moral of the story:

Just because you can't see God,

doesn't mean He is not there.

Quote:
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. --Henry David Thoreau

Blessings

Hungry?

Think Again.

What's for dinner?
Can't eat pork, Swine flu
Can't eat chicken, Bird flu
Can't eat Beef, Mad cow
Can't eat eggs, Salmonella
Can't eat fish, heavy metal poisons in their waters
Can't eat fruits and veggies, insecticides and herbicides

I believe that leaves Chocolate and ice cream!

Remember:
'STRESSED' spelled backwards . . .
is 'DESSERTS'

Thanks Bro and Sis for the fun article!

Quote:
When you reach for the stars, you may not quite reach them, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either. --Leo Burnett


Blessings