Tag: books

• A Line of Birthdays

  I am not certain that we celebrated all together very many times. Papaw Freddy’s older brother, Horace was born on the 21st, the day after mine. So literally once I arrived the line got even longer. It was me then Horace, his grandsons, and then his daughter in laws. That is four Alsman Birthdays in…

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  January 23, 2024

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  Band of Brothers, birthdays, books, Family, fiction, Grandpa, grandparents, Happy Birthday, Hilltop Restaurant, history, line of birthdays, meals, memories, Spencer, WW2

• Trying To Close The Chapter

  Since last night I have had a rather rough time of it. Have you ever tried so hard to put on a can on the lid of a chapter of your life you would like to forget and that you need to heal from? Closing that lid seems harder for me to do even a…

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  January 23, 2024

  God’s Timing, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  3 years, Barrister, books, boyfriend, cashiers, chapters, close, deep love, dialysis, emotional, exhausted, fiance, fiction, God, January, knowledge, life, loyalty, questions, sobbing, texts, togetherness, writing

• A Crazy Business Idea.-Writing Prompt

  Well… it wasn’t exactly my idea and actually us grandkids loved the idea. Of course, as my uncles love to remind me they were the two actually doing the grunt work and it wasn’t all fun. After my Grandpa Freddy & Grandma Rosemary went to Australia and New Zealand with his brother Horace and Margaret…

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  January 11, 2024

  Writing Prompt

  australia, bloganuary, bloganuary-2024-11, books, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-1814, Emu's, fiction, history

• My perfect space for reading and writing and what it’s like!-Writing Prompt

  Over the past few months since I added my favorite authors on my Facebook page, Jewell’s of Thought; new posts have shown up. It has been really fun, encouraging and rather amusing to know some of my favorite writers have similar thoughts. Some of their photos are absolutely awesome. Most of my writing has been…

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  December 27, 2023

  Writing Prompt

  books, dailyprompt, dailyprompt-2165, library, reading, writer, writing

• Christmas Tidings

  What do you usually do for Christmas with your family? How has it changed for you as you have grown up? Have you created new traditions? Cooking and baking have been a big factor in my family traditions. Also becoming the Chief Elf for Grandma Rosemary was exciting and fun to find the Stocking Stuffers…

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  December 19, 2023

  Family, God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  books, China Wok, Chocolate Fudge, Christmas, Christmas fun, Christmas Goodies, Christmas Tidings, exciting, Family, family time, food, fudge, important, locating papers, photos, plans, shopping, travel

• Bookshelves

  When Dad and Grandpa Freddy planned out my room shelves were on the list. I have shelves made into the wall, including what I call my ledge, in the hallway leading out of my room. This was before my book fetish started. Now I have three more bookcases for more than just books of course,…

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  December 14, 2023

  God’s Timing, Spontaneity At It’s Best, Uncategorized

  books, bookshelves, Cds, cleaning, dust bunnies, DVDs, energy, lightbulbs, lots of stuff, moving things around, time, tiresome, wall shelves

• Embers Blowing While Exchanging Texts

  When Bryan and I began to converse, in the first month he mentioned his younger brother. This was still very new to me and talking to a New Englander took my words from me… and literally my breath. I grew up knowing that Massachusetts was integral to the American Revolution as well as Boston and…

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  November 20, 2023

  American Heritage, Family, God’s Timing, Modern American History

  adding family, books, Boston, coupling, luxury, Massachusetts, Plymouth, traveling

• Timeless

  Love can be placed up against any backdrop and tell similar stories no matter what time period of history or age of the couple. That is the beauty of love it is absolutely timeless. Reading is such a wonderful experience I tend to think of it as watching a slow motion movie a chapter at…

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  November 4, 2023

  American Heritage, God’s Timing, Modern American History, Musical Glory

  books, cassettes, harmonizing, humanizing, love stories, movies, reading, timeless stories

• Today

  My leisurely reading has always been complementary to my writing. So when I was forced to be a chauffeur for mom I got a chance for more. I was able to catch up and read more than just a chapter at a time. This used to be a favorite time saver of sorts. When I…

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  October 24, 2023

  American Heritage, Modern American History, Spontaneity At It’s Best

  authors, books, chapters, doctor runs, historical fiction, mourning

• The Written Word

  This weekend was a bit crazy. Saturday morning though I began to do some fiddling on the Jewell’s of Thought Facebook page. Looking through some names of Authors and also local businesses. In doing so I was not thinking like I normally do, analyzing my decisions and over thinking even my likes and heart emojis.…

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  September 28, 2023

  American Heritage, Are These American Ideals Gone?, Bible Reflections, Family, God’s Timing

  authors, books, Breslin, for such a time, journeys, reading