PATRICIA KEOUGH WILSON

Writing a blog on one of my favorite authors is on this week’s task list. I even picked out the author and some of his books but that blog will have to wait until next week. I woke up thinking about that idiom, “waiting for the other shoe to drop.” And I was immediately ticked. I don’t want the first shoe to drop. I want a vacation from shoe dropping. No news about terror attacks anywhere in our nation; none elsewhere either. No headlines about one more shooting of any kind,

I know this. Robert Benson, author, keynote speaker, God lover exists. But not in Wikipedia. If you are a published author but don’t appear in Wikipedia, do you for sure exist? Well, I have listened to Robert Benson at the Florida Writers Conference, hosted by the International Word Weavers Association, so I don’t need to verify his credentials in Wikipedia. I only looked because I may be a Wikipedia addict. So fast, so full of stuff, much of which I do not need to know but s

Okay, I promised to share some of my favorite authors and their books with you but I seem to be stuck, not sure where to start. Perhaps the picture of some of my books would give you an idea of why I am struggling with where to begin. Which author? Which books? What genre? New, old, waiting in the stack to be read? And maybe a photograph of my bed, shared with my loved spouse, might help you understand that I love challenging books but also have a child-like streak in me. I w

I am addicted to books. If I read seven days a week, breaking only to sleep and eat, watching no television, abandoning together time with my loved spouse, ceasing all fellowship and contact with family and friends, and quit writing my own novels, poetry and memoir, I would still have shelves of unread books whenever the eulogy is given at my Celebration of Life service. This would be true even if I lived until over 100 and maintained the ability to read some of the more chal