There May Be Circumstances In This Life

Sometimes You Have To Gag On Fancy Before You Can Appreciate Plain, Th' Way I See It. For Too Many Years, I Ate Fancy, I Dressed Fancy, I Talked Fancy. A While Back, I Decided To Start Talkin' Th' Way I Was Raised T' Talk, And For Th' First Time In Forty Years, I Can Understand What I'm Sayin'.

As Long As You Have Any Floor Space At All, You Have Room For Books! Just Make Two Stacks Of Books The Same Height, Place Them Three Or Four Feet Apart, Lay A Board Across Them, And Repeat. Viola! Bookshelves!

I Grew Up Hearing Words Like Snakeroot, Sassafras, Mullein - Things That Had Wondrous, Mysterious Sounds In Their Names.

The Standing Fields [ready To Harvest]were The Legions Who Hadn't Filled Their God-vacuum With The One Who Was Born To Fill It; The Standing Fields Were Those Who Waited For Someone To Reach Out And Speak The Truth, And Tell Them How They Might Be Saved.

I Learned Not To Be So Bitterly Defeated When My Fiction Took A Beating From Editors. I Learned In Advertising To Color In The Lines And Have My Work Done On Time And To Make It The Very Best It Could Be.