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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
List of publishers
Monday, February 13, 2017
Thursday, February 09, 2017
HEROES BENEATH THE WAVES
The unbelievable stories of the heroic men who sailed under the sea.
In Heroes Beneath the Waves, many brave men who rode submarines to great depths and across the oceans into unknown territory share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. They allow us to travel back in time through their memories. Trained for years to keep silent—for “loose lips sink ships”—many still believe what they know to be classified and refuse to disclose even the minutest of recollections. Others, however, want to leave a legacy of reminiscences for people to learn and live by—to know that freedom is not free.
Some stories will never be told. Held within the secret confines of their souls, these deep sea veterans block them out for self-perseverance. Yet, there are others who will never escape their own minds; they relive their underwater experiences over and over with eyes open or shut.
Heroes Beneath the Waves is about teenage boys who left farms, small towns, and inner cities to defend the United States and democracy worldwide. Signing up for United States Navy submarine duty was an adventure of a lifetime during the early 1940s. Dreams of torpedoing Japanese and German ships and subs consumed their thoughts. Those who returned home as young men were older and wiser. Heroes Beneath the Waves was written to honor these men—gallant heroes—who served and are serving today on submarines
In Heroes Beneath the Waves, many brave men who rode submarines to great depths and across the oceans into unknown territory share their experiences, fears, and thoughts. They allow us to travel back in time through their memories. Trained for years to keep silent—for “loose lips sink ships”—many still believe what they know to be classified and refuse to disclose even the minutest of recollections. Others, however, want to leave a legacy of reminiscences for people to learn and live by—to know that freedom is not free.
Some stories will never be told. Held within the secret confines of their souls, these deep sea veterans block them out for self-perseverance. Yet, there are others who will never escape their own minds; they relive their underwater experiences over and over with eyes open or shut.
Heroes Beneath the Waves is about teenage boys who left farms, small towns, and inner cities to defend the United States and democracy worldwide. Signing up for United States Navy submarine duty was an adventure of a lifetime during the early 1940s. Dreams of torpedoing Japanese and German ships and subs consumed their thoughts. Those who returned home as young men were older and wiser. Heroes Beneath the Waves was written to honor these men—gallant heroes—who served and are serving today on submarines
Wednesday, February 08, 2017
Children's Author Sneed B. Collard III Event
On Valentine's Day next
week, I'll be participating in the online National Biodiversity Teach-in. I
will be giving a new presentation, but one that mirrors some of my talks for
schools and conferences. The main difference is that you can sign your class up
to watch this one For Free! To register click on Sneed's Biodiversity
Presentation. My speaking time is 2:00
p.m. Central Time, which I realize may prevent you East-coasters from watching
it, but I hope that many of the rest of you can take advantage of this student
enrichment opportunity.
As always, thank you for your interest and send me an email if you have any (non-technical) questions!
Biodiversity Rocks!
As always, thank you for your interest and send me an email if you have any (non-technical) questions!
Biodiversity Rocks!
Poem to be Published in National Geographic Society Book
I first placed this on my Facebook Monday, Bursary 6, 2017.
I don't know how to share my news, for there are people to thank and more updates I'll be placing on my blogs. Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis asked me to write a poem about Arkansas for a book he was working on for the National Geographic Society last September 016. I did, and it was accepted by the publisher today. Release date around September 2018.
Next, I received a phone call from three-star Vice Admiral Al Konetzni, who will send a review of my book," Heroes Beneath the Waves," in a week or so. God works in mysterious ways.
I don't know how to share my news, for there are people to thank and more updates I'll be placing on my blogs. Children's Poet Laureate J. Patrick Lewis asked me to write a poem about Arkansas for a book he was working on for the National Geographic Society last September 016. I did, and it was accepted by the publisher today. Release date around September 2018.
Next, I received a phone call from three-star Vice Admiral Al Konetzni, who will send a review of my book," Heroes Beneath the Waves," in a week or so. God works in mysterious ways.
Oklahoma City Writers.
The best fiction is always based on big ideas. (Pardon the alliteration). Multi-published, award winning author Eric Reitan will talk to Oklahoma City Writers about WRESTLING WITH BIG IDEAS IN YOUR WRITING: PROSPECTS AND PITFALLS on Saturday, Feb. 18. We meet at S. Luke's United Methodist Church, 222 NW 15th, OKC (between Robinson and Harvey) in room 130. Meeting starts at 10:15 a.m. You don't have to be a member to attend.
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
Sunday, February 05, 2017
BOOKS IN BLOOM
http://booksinbloom.org/about/ Inquirer if you would enjoy being an author there in May. I was there last year where I had a great time.
Friday, February 03, 2017
Poem Color the World
Color
the World
©
By Mary Nida Smith
Paint
your world
In
favorite colors,
Sunshine
yellow,
Sky
blue, jungle green,
Crayon
colors of jell-O.
Don’t
stop there
Need
a new look
Gather
a brush
Paint
your friend
Superhero
in a rush
The
world’s canvas
Is
yours to paint
Create
scenic places
Brighten
dark corners
Reflect
happy faces.
Saturday, January 28, 2017
WHY I WRITE
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WHY I WRITE
Mary Nida Smith
Why do I write? I
write because this is who I am. Words on paper are food that provides
strength for me to continue my journey of creative writing. I believe I was
born to write, for God knew I needed to fill a void through painful and
lonely times.
I didn’t write thinking I would be rejected from so many places and advised to give it up, for I wrote because this is who I am. Rejections would slow me down or question why I write, but the words that formed stories kept trying to open the door to my mind. Many stories formed a mind of their own. I couldn’t deny them their time to walk across the pages and make someone smile or allow a tear to flow. When I spied a call for submissions from a newspaper, magazine or other areas, if I thought I could, like the little red engine, I submitted. It was always a wonderful surprise when I was accepted – paid or not, I was getting my name out there. It was cheap advertisement, a chance to learn from an editor, and to spread my wings in many different fields of creative writing. Today I am an author of two books: Heroes Beneath the Waves: Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century and Submarine Stories of World War II. I have written for newspapers and magazines. I have been published as a poet and as a writer for the children’s market. |
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Friday, January 27, 2017
An Adventure Book for Teen Boys
An adventure book for teen boys. Heroes Beneath the Waves: Submarines Stories of the Twentieth Century, is filled with true stories of teen-age boys who left home to experience adventures of a lifetime. Many had never been away from home, yet they dreamed of riding a large submarine to the depths of oceans and seas, and to travel ashore in countries they only read and dreamed about.
Thursday, January 26, 2017
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Writers Conference North Louisiana
http://nolastars.com/conference/
The 2017 Written In The Stars Conference will be held on March 3 & 4, 2017
Monday, January 23, 2017
FICTION AND POETRY BOOK CONTEST
This competition offers a
$1,000 prize for work published in the previous year in two separate
categories. The John Gardner Fiction Book Award goes to the best novel or
collection of fiction, while the Milt Kessler Poetry Book award goes to the
best book of poems.
Deadline: February 1, 2017
Please note: Easy application
BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY
JOHN GARDNER FICTION BOOK AWARD GUIDELINES
Sponsored by the Binghamton
Center for Writers-State University of New York
with support from the Office of the Dean of Binghamton University’s Harpur College of the Arts & Sciences
with support from the Office of the Dean of Binghamton University’s Harpur College of the Arts & Sciences
$1,000 Award for
the book of fiction written in English selected by our judges as the strongest novel or collection of fiction published in 2016.
Contest Rules:
1. Each book submitted must
be accompanied by an application form.
2. Publisher or author may
submit. Author needs to have a U.S. social security number for the prize
to be awarded.
3. Publisher may submit
more than one book for prize consideration.
4. Two copies of each book
should be sent to:
§ Maria Mazziotti Gillan,
Director
Creative Writing Program
Binghamton University
Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric
Library North Room 1149
Vestal Parkway East
P.O.Box 6000
Binghamton, NY13902-6000
Creative Writing Program
Binghamton University
Department of English, General Literature, and Rhetoric
Library North Room 1149
Vestal Parkway East
P.O.Box 6000
Binghamton, NY13902-6000
5. Books should be original
work, not translations.
6. Books entered in the
competition will be donated to the contemporary literature collection at the
Binghamton University Library and to the Broome County Library.
7. Books must be received
in the English Department by February 1, 2017 to be considered for the prize.
8. Books cannot be
returned.
9. For a list of winners,
include a stamped, self-addressed envelope labeled:
§ “Binghamton University
Fiction Book Award.”
10. Winners will be
announced in Poets & Writers and the AWP Writer’s Chronicle.
Applications are
available here. (pdf, 44.6kb)
Make sure your publisher has
considered this award for you.
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
Fanny Brice Kimberly Greenberg
http://www.kimberlyfayegreenberg.com/fanny-show/4591455932
Enjoy the video of Kimberly Faye Greenberg. Her father Joel, a friend of mine sent this to me of his talented daughter. He was my biggest supporter and a contributor to Heroes Beneath the Waves...
Enjoy the video of Kimberly Faye Greenberg. Her father Joel, a friend of mine sent this to me of his talented daughter. He was my biggest supporter and a contributor to Heroes Beneath the Waves...
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Thursday, January 19, 2017
COWBOY JO
COWBOY JO
©By Mary Nida Smith
Cowboy Jo
once an orphan child
came to Sawtooth
City
then Bonanza
City
There she stayed
the first woman
to enter Yankee Fork
mining district.
Men of Sawtooth City
hadn’t laid eyes
on a woman in months
the day Cowboy Jo
rode into town
with a pack train.
The men came running
to see if she was real
this woman of pretty
auburn hair and stood tall.
She wanted their respect
but, it wasn’t to be
from the men of
Yankee Fork
Respect for a lone woman
in a mining town of men
was only a passing goal.
For Cowboy Jo laughed
and drank with the best of them.
She never raised her voice
or laughed, allowing only
a weak smile on her face.
In months that followed
Cowboy Jo was regarded
as an Angel of Mercy.
She’d pack her saddlebags
with food and medicine,
no matter how far
over rough, high mountains
she rode to nurse
a miner back to health.
Years passed, Bonanza
City
more women came of different class.
These women treated Cowboy Jo
kindly, enjoying her visit
when sober and bathed.
She was a restless person
a confirmed alcoholic
quickly aged in her mid-thirties
traveling from camp to camp.
Then a man named John Bee
took a fancy to Cowboy Jo
called her, his woman
One night John Bee
in a drunken poker game
thought he was a winner.
No money to raise his bet
he promised Cowboy Jo
as his wager for he was sure,
he held the winning hand.
But no, he did not.
He lost the love of his life
in a drunken poker game.
Cowboy Jo waited
half asleep and not sober
at a near-by table.
As the poker winner
came to claim his prize,
he yelled at the barkeep.
Bring me a quart of whiskey.
then he picked her limp body
shouldered her, and walked out
to greet the sunrise.
John Bee watched
the prospector’s place
from his near-by cabin.
One day the gambling man
who claim his woman
left his cabin alone.
John Bee took a wheelbarrow
found Cowboy Jo inside
drunk and out cold.
He dragged her to the wheelbarrow
quickly headed back to his cabin.
Later, he walked to the spring
to get a bucket of water.
On the return trip
he spotted the prospector
as he jumped behind a boulder.
Cowboy Jo’s new man
shot at John Bee as he
continued to shoot between
loading Cowboy Jo
into the wheelbarrow
and headed back to his cabin
with his wheelbarrow and poker prize.
Cowboy Jo lived her life
between drunk and out cold.
Being claim by one man
after another until her slow death.
Died without the respect she craved.
Died alone this orphan child
who craved love in the Sawtooth
Mountains of Idaho
in the Land
of Yankee
© By Mary Nida Smith
Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
FREE WRITER'S CONFERENCE
Free Conference
Register now for the free writer’s conference sponsored by the Northwest Arkansas Writers Workshop. We still have room for eager writers, both novice and advanced. New York Times Best Seller Jodi Thomas is our featured speaker, with the awesome 13 year old Alice Cai, and writing tips from Spur award winner Dusty Richards and award winning author Velda Brotherton. For more information see www.veldabrotherton.com click on Events, and don’t forget to enter the contest. It’s a fabulous chance to make your creative work pay off. See you March 11.
Saturday, January 14, 2017
Sitting in the Silence
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Sitting in the morning silence
interrupted by dogs barking in a distance.
Fog like clouds appear to engulf,
the trees and bushes to set down ice.
Hidden sunlight try's to gain courage
to break through the icy clouds. -
Sitting in the morning silence
interrupted by dogs barking in a distance.
Fog like clouds appear to engulf,
the trees and bushes to set down ice.
Hidden sunlight try's to gain courage
to break through the icy clouds. -
Friday, January 13, 2017
PAL'S FINE ART GALLERY
As many of you may
know, local artist, Jerry Preator is the featured at the PAL's Fine Art
Gallery, Yellville. A reception has been planned for tomorrow, 1-13 , but with the
current threats of freezing rain it will be rescheduled. After talking
with Mr. Preator , it has been decided to re schedule Friday, Friday, Jan 20, 4-5:30 pm.
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
DREAM POSTER
Designed (c) by Mary Nida Smith
Bio Mary Nida Smith, Children
Market
Organizations: Member of Society of Children’s Book Writers
and Illustrators (SCBWI) and founder of Children’s Writers & Illustrators
(Mountain Home, AR); Attend: SCBWI AR workshops and retreats during Darcy Pattison
and Sandy Fox as Regional Advisors.
Conferences: SCBWI Arkansas
and Missouri
Magazines: Kid Magazine
Writers, Jan Fields, Editor (Blogging is Important)
Once Upon a Time (Writer’s
Block) issue 2007
Newsletters: Mo Scribbles
(SCBWI) Arkansas SCBWI News Column and article, “Eliminate Clutter and Stress.”
Winter 2005 SCBWI
Australian Chapter’s Newsletter Fine
Lines (reprint) “Eliminate
Clutter and Stress”
Illustrations: SCBWI National
Bulletin (purchase one). Taught others how to write and illustrate a children’s
picture book.
Library Summer Program: Taught
a writing class for young children for three years at the Baxter County
Library, member of the Friends of the Library (Board member five years and a
member of Friends of the Library 15 years in 2016)
Blogs: Monthly 2009-2017 W.O.M David L. Harrison (Children’s book author) posted a monthly poem.
http://marynidasmith.blogspot.com (Life’s Beautiful Path)
Freelance Writer and author
of Submarine Stories of World War II (2008) and Heroes Beneath the Waves:
Submarine Stories of the Twentieth Century (2015 ) for youth and adults.
Deceitful Wind - Poem
Deceitful
Wind
By
Mary Nida Smith
This
morning the wind is visiting
Banging
against the house
Like
a mad uncontrollable beast
Trying
to frighten me
To
rattle and shake my nerves
As
it circles from different directions
The
bully wind will lullaby with low notes
Appearing
to calm me into thinking its leaving
For
a moment, I feel a calmness and peace
Suddenly,
shaken by the howls of wolves
Taking
runs, like the big bad wolf
Trying
to puff and blow my house in
To
remove me to a hidden place
Where
the strong, deceitful, wind hides
Claiming
me for its own.
Friday, January 06, 2017
Mary Nida Smith Bio
I don't think I'll have get my bio printed right, so be kind.
MARY NIDA SMITH, freelance writer, author, poet, photographer
and illustrator.
AUTHOR:
Heroes beneath the Waves: Submarine Stories of
the Twentieth Century (e-book, paperback
and audio book) and Submarine Stories of World War II and Ozarks Sunrises
(poetry and photographs).
and audio book) and Submarine Stories of World War II and Ozarks Sunrises
(poetry and photographs).
Former newsletter editor for the Arkansas
Submarine Veterans of World War II
Life
member of Wives of Submarine Veterans of World War II
Life
member of Ladies of U.S. Submarine Veterans, Inc
Former member of Military Writers of
America and published in military magazines.
Book, Submarine Stories of
World War II can be found in St.Marys Submarine Museum,
Marys, GA, Arkansas Island Maritime Museum, Arkansas
Island Maritime Museum, Little Rock, and Wisconsin Military Museum,
Research Center Library Madison, Wisconsin.
Heroes beneath the Wave: Submarine
Stories of the Twentieth Century, released November 17, 2015 by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
FREELANCE WRITER: Magazines - Northwest
Living, Grit, Magic Valley Farm Lines, the Ozark Mountaineer, Grit, and
Ozarks magazine, Rural Arkansas and
newspapers – Oregon Journal, Portland, Oregon; Port Orchard Independent Port Orchard (weekly column), Washington; Magic Valley
Farm Line, Burley, Idaho; West Star, Missouri; Ozark Mountain News, Mountain
Home; The Herald Leader, Siloam Springs, AR; and The Ozarks Mountaineer Echo;
The Times-News; and the Eureka Springs newspaper. Harvard Avenue Baptist Church
newsletter( Siloam Springs), writers’ newsletters and websites (Ozarks Writers
League, Missouri Writers Guild, Missouri SCBWI and SCBWI Australia & New
Zealand, Once upon a Time,) and
internet magazines (Ozark Magazine & The Kids Writer). She wrote book
reviews (Oregon Journal), a weekly newspaper column (Port Orchard Independent,
WA), flew the press and did inserts in a Circulation Dept. (The Enterprise Carrier,
Oregon City, OR) and wrote poems about Magic Valley and “Letters to the
Editor.”
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Newspapers and magazines, first place in Scenic category sponsored
by The Herald-Leader newspaper and
Color Mate Photo, Sager Creek Arts Center
bulletin covers, cover of the Storyteller magazine, book cover (art
shows and Midway Baptist Church photographer and historian for five years. Area art shows won two second
and three honorable mentions and ORAC/Area Art Club exhibit at ASU/Mountain
Home, AR.
ILLUSTRATIONS AND ART: Member of the Area Art Club, Bull Shoals Art
Club and Palette Art League. Former President
of Siloam Springs Artist Guild, staff
illustrator for Writers’ Chapbook/Rolling Drum Press (Boise, Idaho), Farm Lines
magazine, Idaho Writers League state newsletters, and SCBWI bulletin, jurieded art shows (Cane Hill Harvest Festival,
Sager Creek Art Center, Siloam Springs, AR.), Ozark Art Alliance at John Brown
University, Sager Creek Art Center Competitive, displayed in restaurants, Arts
Ministry, designed a Christmas card for Lon & Edna Smith(A drawing of their
home and a painting for their
newly decorated bedroom), Ye Old Vintage Trek and Artist at Work –Artist and
Historical Home Tour. Paintings
owned by Dr. George & Mary Benjamin (home); Bettye Brenner (home); The Nida
Family Home family reunion and art shows; J.D. McLemore,
Kemp, TX ( submarine painting); Arkansas WWII Submarine raffle event (Rose painting); Mona
Taylor (Rose painting); Erma Handemaker, Harper, KS( floral painting); and Val
Battenburg, Siloam Springs, AR( Russian Dolls).
POET: Writers
Chapbook, Pentecostal Evangel magazine, 2nd place contest Baxter
County Poets Association, one or two poems a
month for eight years on children’s book author’s blog David L. Harrison (guest
poet twice and poet of the month), and Ozark
Mountaineer magazine, Journal of the Ozarks, The Times News and Fall Street Journal (Chamber
newspaper), Twin Falls, Idaho. Two poems
on the Free Verse Poetry Group’s second CD
“Driftwood.”
ORGANIZATIONS:
Founder of Twin Lakes Writers and Creative Writers & Illustrators
former president of The Idaho Writers League/Twin Falls Chapter, member SCBWI,
president of Ozarks Writers League former member Missouri Writers Guild and
organized 1st Writers Conference for NC Arkansas (Bel Arco Resort), the Holiday Inn
former president of The Idaho Writers League/Twin Falls Chapter, member SCBWI,
president of Ozarks Writers League former member Missouri Writers Guild and
organized 1st Writers Conference for NC Arkansas (Bel Arco Resort), the Holiday Inn
Authors
Day and Luncheon,Twin Falls, Idaho,
and was the co-founder of Sager Creek Arts
Center Literature Department where she organized speakers for Sager Creek
Literature Dept
Mini-Writers Workshops, Palette Art League board member, Area Art Club and Ozark
Regional Arts Council (Monthly column for author/writers and historian).Former board member
Mini-Writers Workshops, Palette Art League board member, Area Art Club and Ozark
Regional Arts Council (Monthly column for author/writers and historian).Former board member
of Friends
of the Library, Donald W. Reynolds Library (Baxter County) Mountain Home, AR.
Thursday, January 05, 2017
BAXTER COUNTY LIBRARY LITERARY SERIES
I am so proud of our library - Donald W. Reynolds Library on Library Hill and the Friends of the Library. Go to their website http://www.baxlib.org March and April Friends of the Library is the sponsor for the upcoming "Literary Series." Visiting authors, local authors book signing, creative writing, self-publishing and song writing session. Plus, Poetry Slam is back. Plus, Unique artistic fusion of music, poetry and painting- live performance. I have always loved our library and the special have worked or volunteer there.
Monday, January 02, 2017
Sunday, January 01, 2017
Saturday, December 31, 2016
WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING FOR CHILDREN
https://kathytemean.wordpress.com/
Writing and Illustrating
Sharing Information About Writing and Illustrating for Children
Friday, December 30, 2016
Sunday, December 25, 2016
Thursday, December 22, 2016
LITERARY AGENTS ETHICS
Association of
Authors' Representatives
We are a professional organization of over 400 agents who work with both book authors and playwrights.
Our members must meet the highest standards and subscribe to
our Canon of Ethics
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
A COUPLET POEM
I wrote and posted a couplet poem today.
Rain came followed ice
Snow blew wasn't nice
Rain came followed ice
Snow blew wasn't nice
Friday, December 02, 2016
Village Writing School
POETRY THAT
REDIRECTS ITSELF
Sunday, December 4
Sunday, December 4
In this workshop, we
will look at the nature of metaphor and how metaphor can be a tool for generating surprise in a
reader.We will also:
- look at ways to
coax our poetry into taking surprising detours and discuss how those
detours can shape a new understanding of ourselves.
- read examples of
successful poems that employ similar tactics.
- participate
in writing exercises designed to generate new ideas.
The workshop leader is Rodney Wilhite whose poems have appeared in Pleiades, 14 Hills, Cartographer, The Idle Class, The Puritan, and Splash of Red. He teaches at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith.
This is the third of our free poetry series. Don’t miss it!
Become a Better Poet & A Better Poetry Reader
December 4 2 - 4 p.m.
Rogers Library
711 S. Dixieland Road
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
Christmas Heroes Beneath the Wave
Mark R. Clary's USS Sunfish (SSN-649)story "Christmas I Remember Best: Ocean depths fail to dampen spirit of Christmas," in Heroes Beneath the Waves. And a Christmas poem, "Christmas Below the Sea," by the author as her husband tried to share his experience of Christmas on submarines.
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Saturday, November 26, 2016
SUBMARINE STORIES
http://submarinestories.blogspot.com/
HEROES BENEATH THE WAVES: SUBMARINE STORIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Mary Nida Smith
HEROES BENEATH THE WAVES: SUBMARINE STORIES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Mary Nida Smith
Thursday, November 24, 2016
Palette Art League
Join the Palette
Art League on December 15 and 16 , for a fun and exciting workshop at the
P.A.L's Art Gallery. Marlene Gremillion will be instructing
"Photographing and Watercolor Painting
Shiny Objects ".
Find the details attached. Pre-registration is encourage to reserve your seat. (space is limited).
For questions and registration contact Dana Johnson at 870-656-2057.
All proceeds support the Palette Art League a 501-c3 non profit organization.
Find the details attached. Pre-registration is encourage to reserve your seat. (space is limited).
For questions and registration contact Dana Johnson at 870-656-2057.
All proceeds support the Palette Art League a 501-c3 non profit organization.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
Good Morning
Good morning.
This is were I need a lot of God's help to do something worthwhile/meaningful each day to keep focus on the prize. I know God has a wonderful plan for me and I must be ready, if it through my writing, painting, or photography I must continue; if its not -its not. In the meanwhile I have enjoyed myself while waiting to discover His plan.
All is well this morning - I think? Facebook is still not allowing to print normal. I guess they peeked and found out what age group I belonged to and thought I needed large print. I feel I have been placed in one of these age group boxes. I refuse to go without a fight, not in a mean way, but in a gentle way.
This is were I need a lot of God's help to do something worthwhile/meaningful each day to keep focus on the prize. I know God has a wonderful plan for me and I must be ready, if it through my writing, painting, or photography I must continue; if its not -its not. In the meanwhile I have enjoyed myself while waiting to discover His plan.
When I drew the balancing act of the worms years ago, I should have used a clock instead of books. Well I can redraw it.
I need a small water softener,can anybody give me any pointers what to purchase and where?
When I post on my blog you can comment on my Facebook.
Have a great day and enjoy the changing of the clouds.
Saturday, November 19, 2016
Missing Friends
Missing all my woodland garden and yard friends today.
Some were dearer than others - young and old: the chipmunks, squirrels, insects, bird families, turtles, deer (most of all Prissy and Babe), snakes, tree frogs (most of all Sass and his family), groundhogs, and a whole lot more. Each year was different; some sad and some funny. I learned how special animals can be. I am thankful for the 17 years we all were friends.
Today at the new place a titmice flew to a small make-shift birdbath I had created. I thought of the two springs their family had raised young ones in a bird house on the deck table. I learned much from them as I photographed every move and their cousins, the chickadees.
Be true to your friends and they'll be true to you.
Friday, November 18, 2016
Rain May be Coming
Good morning. Another beautiful sunrise rose above the tree line as the sky began to darken. Thunder slightly roared to warn us, maybe, rain will follow. The rain is needed for many of the trees are thirsty allowing their leaves to drop without producing any color. We always love to witness the trees and bushes celebrating their splashes of color, trying to out do each other.
Sit back, grab a good book or a sketch pad, or whatever one does to enjoy a relaxed rainy day. Play some special music to move by, as you excise your thoughts and prayers.
Sit back, grab a good book or a sketch pad, or whatever one does to enjoy a relaxed rainy day. Play some special music to move by, as you excise your thoughts and prayers.
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Rejoined SCBWI
Photo(c) by Mary Nida Smith
I will be doing a book signing Sunday December 4th, at the Donald W. Reynolds Library, Mountain Home, AR. The days will travel quickly, so I must prepare for it.
Do allow the last day of sunshine this week to warm your home and open up the windows, for this maybe, the last day to let the fresh air in and stale air out.Don't forget to wear your smile and maybe, dance a little across the floor.
BAXTER COUNTY LIBRARY BOOK SALE
https://www.facebook.com/events/1119059644855976/?notif_t=plan_reminder¬if_id=1479387600178589
Book Sale hours:
Book Sale hours:
Thursday, November 17 8:30am – 5:00 pmFriday, November 18 8:30am – 5:00pmSaturday, November 19 8:30am – 1:00pm
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Poem by Mary Nida Smith
https://davidlharrison.wordpress.com/adult-word-of-the-month-poem/
My poem and other poems posted on David's word of the month W.O.M. Please join us, write and post your poem. A new word each month. Once a year David has a blog party and we all are invited, so start writing. Read David's blog where you can learn more about writing.
My poem and other poems posted on David's word of the month W.O.M. Please join us, write and post your poem. A new word each month. Once a year David has a blog party and we all are invited, so start writing. Read David's blog where you can learn more about writing.
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BY Mary Nida Smith ©
People of passion
Deep-rooted in emotion
Allowing our emotions
To direct our future as we
Search for meaning in life.
Are we blinded by, emotions
That keeps us from searching,
The truth of understanding others …
All have a soul that needs to shine
To bring us all together, so we
Can rise up to love one another
Without group labels,
Which divide us?