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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Free Plants

Posted on May 22, 2016 by peggylchambers

    I’ve been gardening for a lot of years and if you counted up what I’ve spent at nurseries, it is a wonder I ever got to retire.  I know that a perennial plant comes back year after year from … Continue reading →

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: OWFI Writers’ Conference

Posted on May 17, 2016 by peggylchambers

Another year and another OWFI conference has come and gone.  The Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, puts on a writing conference the first part of May every year.  This year’s keynote speaker was New York Times Bestselling Author, Steven James. His murder … Continue reading →

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Being a Mother

Posted on May 8, 2016 by peggylchambers

    Happy Mother’s Day! I wanted today to pay homage to the woman who raised me.  I woke up thinking about her this morning and found this photo in some old ones.  I wanted to share.  This picture was taken … Continue reading →

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Ecuador Relief Fund

Posted on May 1, 2016 by peggylchambers

    My friend, Cynthia Martinez and her husband Eduardo, grew up in Ecuador.  She still has friends and family there and the latest rounds of earthquakes were too real for her.  She had to do something to help out the … Continue reading →

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Grateful for Crazy Weekends

Posted on April 25, 2016 by peggylchambers

    I’m exhausted and very happy this morning.  It occurred to me I had not put out the weekly blog because my weekend was a whirlwind of activity.  I drove to Oklahoma City both Saturday and Sunday and I think … Continue reading →

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Perry Carnegie Library

Posted on April 17, 2016 by peggylchambers

  Wednesday I was asked to be a part of the Perry Carnegie Library’s annual fundraiser hosted by the Progress Club as a featured author (https://www.facebook.com/perry.carnegie?fref=ts).  Along with author Shelley Malicote-Stutchman we visited with the patrons of the library, librarians, and … Continue reading →

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Magic

Posted on April 11, 2016 by peggylchambers

    Viking Fest!  I love the Heavener Runestone Viking and Celtic Festival.  It is held twice a year at the Heavener Runestone Park in southeast Oklahoma.  The forest is always beautiful in April and October and it takes on an … Continue reading →

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Going Full Circle

Posted on April 4, 2016 by peggylchambers

Originally posted on Lucie Smoker:
(Photo above is in the cafe at Full Circle Books.) Scissortail was just great.  It’s this quiet, but crowded literary fest filled with a bunch of professors and literary editors sharing their own words.  And…

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: The Heavener Runestone Viking & Celtic Festival

Posted on April 3, 2016 by peggylchambers

    I am grateful this week that the Heavener Runestone Park has invited me back to the Viking and Celtic Festival April 9 & 10.  They hold the festival twice a year, April and October.  I met some wonderful people last … Continue reading →

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2016 CULTIVATING GRATITUDE: Freedom

Posted on March 27, 2016 by peggylchambers

    I think I’m at that stage in life where I give up.  Not on life, but on things I once thought important.  They weren’t.  I am finally free to be myself.  I don’t have to go to work on … Continue reading →

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