Design Elements

It had a heart and a soul, and eyes to see with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benedictions.  We never came home from an absence that its face did not light up…

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Daughter of the American Revolution

When I was yet a small girl, pre-5-years-old, I was bonded with my Grandpa Nelson, my Mom’s father. He was born in 1901. He really wanted my parents to name me Jenny, my Mom’s mother, who left this world way too early in 1951 when my Mother was not even 18 years old. When I…

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Kimble Bumblebee

My Memoir of Short Stories from a Town&Country Girl is due to be published in 2021. Thus far, I will self-publish the collection. The book’s dedication is to my parents, Betty Nelson Masoner and Paul E. Masoner. Coming into this particular body, and being born of these particular parents, and in such a place, and…

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