Be confident in the stories you write. If what you are writing is something that you must write, something that is deep in your soul, then be confident that you are the one to write it and that no one can write it as well as you can. This is why it’s important to be […]
The creative process is like a train chugging along its tracks. If you sit and listen, you can hear the distant train whistle as it heads into the edge of town. You are welcome to jump on the train, if you dare, and take it for a ride. Sometimes the rides are free; sometimes they […]
On our first full day in Maine, we made our way to the Marginal Way in Ogunquit, which seemed to be the destination of everyone else in southern Maine. The traffic crawled, the parking lots were full, and it was too late in the day to pay for the trolley. We turned around and spent […]
On our first full day in Maine, we explored the area and found ourselves at Colony Beach in Kennebunkport, Maine. Being Monday, July 5, the area was crowded with tourists and people with the day off from work. We found a parking spot along the road just across from The Colony Hotel, which holds 125 […]
Also in our visit to Darke County, Ohio, we visited the Garst Museum. The museum had an entire section devoted to its hometown hero Annie Oakley. There were all types of artifacts from her life, even down to her chinaware and nightgown. There were guns that she had used and many publicity posters from the […]
On August 2, 2009 on our way home from Myrtle Beach we stopped in Flat Rock, North Carolina to visit Carl Sandburg’s home known as Connemara. Most of the information below is taken from the brochure provided by the National Park Service U.S. Department of the Interior. The pictures are mine. The pictures of Sandburg […]
In 1811 Tecumseh spoke these words to the Choctaw Council – “The annihilation of our race is at hand unless we unite in one common cause against the common foe. Think not that you can remain passive and indifferent to the common danger, and thus escape the common fate. Your people, too, will soon be […]
As I mentioned in my last post, we visited the site of Prophet Town at the Shawnee Nature Center. According to the Darke County Visitors Bureau, “this 118-acre preserve is the largest Darke County park.” There are “2 miles of trails that showcase the three distinct habitats of this park: woodlands, wetlands, and prairies.” This […]
A must stop when in the Washington, D.C. area is Mount Vernon, the plantation home of George and Martha Washington. Mount Vernon was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1960 and is today listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is still owned and maintained in trust by The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, […]
One of the great things about life is the unexpected treasures. When we get up in the morning, we can have the greatest plans prepared and often we follow them exactly as we planned. But when things take a different turn, it often turns a day full of memories. One Saturday a few years ago, my […]