Posted in Friends and Family, Writing on Dec 9th, 2008 7 Comments »
Nearly two weeks ago, I was tagged by Caroline from Standing in the Sunlight in a game of, uhh… let me count ‘em… Seventeen Questions! I’m breaking the official tagging-game “Rules” by not tagging any new friends (seeing as most of my friends have been tagged already), but the questions were just too [...]
Posted in Writing on Oct 7th, 2008 2 Comments »
Just when I begin to wonder, “What am I going to do for my next blog post?”, the problem is solved by my being caught in a game of blog-tag by Miss Mia from Aspiring Homemaker.
The Rules of the game are as follows:
Link to the person who tagged you.
Post the rules on your blog.
Write Six [...]
Posted in Friends and Family, Photography, Writing on Sep 28th, 2008 2 Comments »
Posted in Writing on Sep 5th, 2008 No Comments »
There’s a part near the beginning of C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra in which the narrator speaks of the terror which the word “haunted” inspires:
“Haunted”…”haunting”…what a quality there is in that first syllable! Would not a child who had never heard the word before and did not know its meaning shudder at the mere sound if, [...]
Posted in Books, Writing on May 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
Young Girl Writes on Paper with a Pencil
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.
- Horace Greeley
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities.
- Horace
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
- H. W. Shaw
To be accurate, write; to [...]
Posted in Books, Writing on May 13th, 2008 2 Comments »
Reading in the Morning Light by Carl Holose
There is creative reading as well as creative writing. - Emerson
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. - Burke
How well he is read, to reason against reading! - Shakespeare
Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings. - Longfellow
‘T [...]
Posted in Books, Writing on Aug 1st, 2007 6 Comments »
In looking through my many journals and spiral-bound notebooks, I find, here and there, scattered amidst the sporadic story ideas and sketches of “pretty girls”, a list of my “Favorite Books”. Why I wrote these lists, I don’t know. Nobody but I ever read them. But [...]
Posted in Writing on Jul 21st, 2007 1 Comment »
The End of the Quest
by Sir Frank Dicksee
Sir Frank Dicksee is one of my favorite painters, and his work “The End of the Quest” is one of my favorite paintings. It truly is worth a thousand words, and more! The faces of the man and woman seem to hint at a long and beautiful love [...]
Hello–my name is Janna! I am a Christian young woman, finding joy every day in my home, my family, and my Savior.