There's the TED Talk stuff, of course. Work as a team. Communicate. Monitor your supplies -- first in, first out. But, the thing that has really stood out in this sea-change year -- a year sparked by the convergance of a sudden step back from a career in journalism and an emptied nest -- is… Continue reading What a year of innkeeping has taught me about readiness
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Serendipity & Sorrel
A whopper container on our deck has somehow become a buffet for wild things. It started out innocently enough as a pot full of violas and pansies. They were the first deck flowers of the growing season, strategically placed where I could see them from the kitchen window. As the garden marched into summer, however,… Continue reading Serendipity & Sorrel
On being a cardigan
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” ― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey Our daughters are potted plants, yearning for the deck or porch after a long season indoors. It’s time for big sky, for wind and rain. It’s time for the occasional dandelion fluff to drift… Continue reading On being a cardigan
Free-Read Christmas Novella
In the spirit of the holidays and in the joyful style of Hallmark, here is the first installment of Stand Still & Chill, a free-read novella set in West Virginia's beautiful Canaan Valley. Look for more chapters over the next two weekends! Stand Still & Chill Volume 2 of the Match Made in Almost Heaven… Continue reading Free-Read Christmas Novella
A trail of book crumbs
I thought I knew all the juicy family "secrets." The marriages, the not-quite marriages and, well, the one about the many-greated uncle -- a farmer who was shot to death on a dirt road I have actually walked. The story is that my relative discovered someone was stealing his chicken feed and he poisoned the… Continue reading A trail of book crumbs
Nora Edinger -- JOY Journal 