“It takes a little time sometimes to get your feet back on the ground / It takes a little time sometimes to turn the Titanic around / It takes a little time sometimes, but baby, you’re not going down. It takes more than you got right now / Give it, give it time” ~ Amy […]
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They will know this by our love
It’s Wednesday night and the church building in my tiny town in this swath of the Midwest seems to be hopping, even though it’s one of the smaller ones in town. As children practice learning the fruit of patience by playing silent ball and memory, the English Language Learners group, a mix of refugees and […]
Live in Peace
Look at any news website or turn on any channel and you’ll surely hear about war. Hamas has attacked Israel. Russia is still invading Ukraine. Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Ethiopia, Libya, Mali, Somalia, South Sudan, and Syria are all in the midst of civil wars. Drug cartels in Mexico and Colombia and terrorists in armed […]
Rankins (The Magician – Chapter Eight)
This is the eighth chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Rankins Ophelia Rankin Stoneburner was beaming at the two women as they came up the front porch stairs. She stepped forward and greeted them both with hugs […]
Setbacks
This past week, I suffered a blow to the goals I had set up for the month of October. I had made plans to walk at least a mile every single day of the month and that goal has already been setback unintentionally. I came down with a head cold. It’s amazing how a simple […]
Abounding joy
Have you ever stopped to think that maybe we all aren’t as accepting of others as we like to think we are? Sometimes, even when we say everyone is welcome, we don’t mean everyone. We exclude those who are different from us. We tell them to conform to our ideals, our values, our way of […]
Persist
Anyone who knows me knows that I wear several bracelets. It’s something I started doing a few years ago, mainly because I wanted to express myself, but also because some have words I wanted to focus on. I’ve mentioned them in a few blogs posts here as well. One of the words I have on […]
Halloween Town: The Newest Residents
This is a story about my Halloween Town. I used to put a description of the origins of my villages on every post about my villages, but since I have a whole created page about the Village Stories I have written, Check it out there if you have no idea what my Halloween Town is. […]
Where There is Love
Anyone who pays attention to the news will tell you that there is so much in the way of hatred in our world today. Look at the way invasions, mass shootings, book ban parties, even comments on social media accounts are perversive. We make rules against love. We tell people they cannot love others because […]
Allium (The Magician – Chapter Seven)
This is the seventh chapter of the serialization novel I am working on, The Magician – < click there to read the other chapters if you missed them. Allium It would not do to ruminate on a long-missing family member, Vanessa thought as she stared off into the distance through her window on the train. […]
K. S. Wood Writes 