Another New Link For You I know it’s been a while since anyone has heard from me (working on a post about that). I want to take a moment and share another new link with you. If you enjoy poetry, check out https://poems-by-tom.weebly.com/. Tom has decided to take a dip in the blogging pool and share some of his poetry with the world. In addition, he will also be sharing poetry from the masters (maybe even me) from time to…
Value Of A Name A few weeks ago I discovered the value of the domain names for my two blogs. Downjotter, despite being my neglected child, actually has a higher value than my other site, www.ten-thirtyministries.com. My first thought was that it had to be some kind of mistake. Ten-Thirty has a lot more posts and many more daily visitors, so why is it valued so low? The reasons vary, but it all comes down to the domain name itself….
Treeline, Skyline, And Once-Grand Homes As I write this, I am looking out the window of Mom’s 4th floor hospital room. Snow is falling; sometimes nothing more than flurries while at other times hard enough to obscure everything beyond the roof below. A quarter mile away—just beyond the evergreen treeline—the center tower of the 31st Street Bridge dominates the skyline. It rises 280 feet above the road and is threaded with great cables which provide the deck’s support. Between here…
Time Management Without A Magical Device On June 13, 1980, and interesting little movie called The Girl, The Gold Watch, And Everything debuted. It was based on a book of the same name by John D. MacDonald. The basic plot is a man (Robert Hays) inherits a watch from his uncle. The girl (Pam Dawber) enters his life around the same time and they begin to fall in love. To make things interesting, a gang of criminals keeps trying to…
“A certain critic–for such men, I regret to say, do exist–made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained ‘all the old Wodehouse characters under different names,’ He probably by now has been eaten by bears, like the children who made mock of the prophet Elijah: but if he still survives he will not be able to make a similar charge against Summer Lightning. With my superior intelligence, I have out-generalled the man this time by putting in…