Home of the Bellingwood Series – Nammynools
I don’t know what triggered my memory of this story, but I am at my desk, bubbling with laughter. When we first lived in Sigourney, my mother’s father moved into a one-bedroom Quonset hut home just down the alley a ways. Poor Mac was an
TB is a very smart cat. I’ve known since the day he showed up at the back door that I was his to command. We have had a battle for ‘alpha’ from the very beginning. I insist that I’ve won, only to realize that he’s
This last week has been … well … bleh. I hate being sick. What a huge waste of time. We Greenwoods are terrible at being sick. It’s Dad’s fault. I don’t know if that man ever really took a sick day unless surgery was involved. And
I watched a video / read an article about a girl in Alberta, Canada who responded to a rotten act of bullying with positive action. She covered lockers with uplifting messages on post-it notes. The thing is – it spread throughout the community. Click HERE
I’m listening to and watching the wind blow like crazy outside. The sky is bright blue, the sun is shining, the river is full due to the steady rain from yesterday and I love it all. This is fall in Iowa. We complain because there
Do we really own the land or are we just caretakers of this particular spot of earth? In this beautiful poem written by my mother in 1969, she describes her adoration of the beautiful place our family calls home. You can see why I am
Mom wrote this five years after she and Dad purchased the land. There are grand stories about things that happened heard in Iowa’s early days that have long since been lost been lost. She alludes to some and I don’t know if I’ll ever find them
I wrote this quite a few years ago. This describes the home of my heart, a beautiful spot in the woods that has been part of our family since 1964, the year my brother was born. The original owner of the land was a man
Last night I was chatting with a friend about the fact that I build time for procrastination into my schedule. I know that I’m going to do it, so rather than worry about not accomplishing everything, I just plan to procrastinate. I am creative, but
My brother, who is also a writer (check him out at fickledragon.com), and I have been trying to figure out a way to create a glossary of characters for our books. He found a great plugin for the website that seems easy to use and I can
