Sorry I haven’t posted lately. Too much going on right now, but I must comment on yesterday’s election. While we don’t know New Jersey’s final outcome, Virginia’s is clearly a win for common sense and a rejection of WOKE and CRT and hopefully the huge inflationary expense of Biden’s social infrastructuing of our country. Yes, we’ll build roads, but we will NOT allow cradle to grave federal government takeover of everyone’s lives. At least, that’s what I think these elections show. And we will NOT defund the police, but rather allow these bravest among us to attempt to maintain order and propriety.
Meanwhile, I am writing my third novel using National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo to write 50,000 words during November. On day three, I have completed 12,093 words of my first draft. Little time for much else these days, although I attempt to complete a chapter each day between five and seven a.m. So far it’s going well.
A career teacher, with forty years of teaching language arts/English, Betty Jackson enjoys wordsmithing, writing, and reading as a vocation and avocation.Retirement is her "age of frosting," a chance to pursue postponed hobbies with gusto. She especially sends kudos to the Space Coast Writers Guild members for their encouragement and advice. Her five books, It's a God Thing!, Job Loss: What's Next? A Step by Step Action Plan, and Bless You Bouquets: A Memoir, And God Chose Joseph: A Christmas Story, and Rocking Chair Porch: Summers at Grandma's are available at Amazon.com. Ms. Jackson is available to speak to local groups and to offer her books at discount for fundraising purposes at her discretion. She and her husband soon celebrate their 47th anniversary, and have lived in New York, New Jersey, Iowa, and now the paradise of Palm Bay, Florida. Their two grown children and daughter-in-love, all orchestra musicians, and our beautiful granddaughters Kaley and Emily live nearby. Hobbies, and probably future topics on her blog: gardening, symphonic music (especially supporting the Space Coast Symphony Orchestra as a volunteer and proud parent of a violinist, a cellist, and an oboist), singing, book clubs, and co-teaching a weekly small-group Bible study for seniors. She volunteers and substitute teaches at Covenant Christian School, and serves as a board member of the Best Yet Set senior group at church. Foundationally, she daily enjoys God's divine appointments called Godincidences, which show God's providence and loving kindness.