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2021: Expect the Unexpected: The Gift of Books

It’s Christmas and what better time to give the gift of books. If you have a child on your Christmas list, give them the gift of living a life outside themselves. Books can transport you to places you might never … Continue reading

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2021: Expect the Unexpected – Glome’s Valley

The Heavener Runestone is set in a magical forest. Southeastern Oklahoma is home to the Ouachita Mountains and lore of Vikings that predate Columbus. The words “Glome’s Valley” is what some people think is carved into the sandstone monolith in … Continue reading

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2020: Fewer Possessions, More Experiences – Heavener Runestone

  The Heavener Runestone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_runestones in southeastern Oklahoma is an anomaly. A sandstone monolith, it stands at the bottom of a valley with carving that some say is as ancient as the Vikings who could have arrived on this continent … Continue reading

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2020: Fewer Possessions, More Experiences – Glome’s Valley

    It’s Sunday and that means blog day!!! I hope you don’t get sick of what I have to say on Sunday, but it is important to me. Fewer possessions, more experiences is the theme this year. I’ve been … Continue reading

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2019 Life-Long Learning: Drenched at the Runestone Park

    It was the best of times; it was the worst of times.  Oh, that’s already been done. But it sums up this weekend fairly well.  It was the weekend of the biannual Heavener Runestone Viking Fest at the … Continue reading

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2017 Something New: Glome Returns

    The forests of Oklahoma are magical. If you look hard enough, you will find trolls, fairies, runestones, magic swords – and Norse gods.  And there might even be dragons.  The Glome’s Valley series takes place in southeast Oklahoma at … Continue reading

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2017 Something New: The Saga Continues, Return to Glome’s Valley is Released!

    It’s available!!! Return to Glome’s Valley is finally a reality.  The second in the Glome’s Valley series is available for sale at Amazon in paperback and electronically.  The book will debut this fall in the forest where it is … Continue reading

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Local Art

       I’ve known Robert Steele for over 20 years.  He’s been an artist all his life.  So, the question is, why have I waited so long to purchase his art?  Robert is retired these days and has time to do … Continue reading

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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: Magic

    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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2016 Cultivating Gratitude: The Heavener Runestone Viking & Celtic Festival

    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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