by jlo | Mar 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here’s a bit of encouragement for homemakers, from A Sixpence in Her Shoe by Phyllis McGinley: “A perceptive writer who has not always praised the modern women is the anthropologist Margaret Mead. Yet she, in a recent article discussing the results of the...
by jlo | Mar 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
Love this golden oldie from back in the spinning-vinyl days. “If you have some problems Don’t let them ever get you down Just remember God’s strength is always around” Happy Sunday–I’ll be praying for ya!...
by jlo | Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Nut roll was the dessert on which Great-aunt Johanna literally based her reputation,” wrote Phyllis McGinley in her winsome book Sixpence in Her Shoe, which the publisher called “the book that talks back to the Feminine Mystique.” “I...
by jlo | Mar 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
Recently I blogged about the boundaries of my fiction writing. A fellow author, Rebecca Florence Miller, has penned a thoughtful post that has helped me clarify and refine my thinking on the matter. She writes, “Redemptive art is that which clearly shows the...
by jlo | Mar 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here’s another installment in Marjorie’s story. The setting is the Corrigan home, to which Marjorie Corrigan has returned after fainting at the Orpheum during a showing of The Big Parade. (To read the first episode, go here ) “If you wouldn’t attend those...