Journal Entry
Country Journal/March 19, 2016
We continue slowly to clean up and fix up this old farmhouse, health and money permitting. This month I took the bit in my teeth and decided that six years was a long enough period to be without a ceiling light fixture in the living room. My first thought was to move...
Country Journal/December 5, 2015
On the Subject of Chickens and a Year End Summary The perfect chicken and the ultimate chicken coop--they don't exist, but after several years of keeping chickens we are both older and wiser. This place came with a chicken house, in a manner of speaking. It was far...
Country Journal/December 1, 2015
It is the middle of the night. I can't sleep. I have one huge life goal and that is to become the person I want to be and think I should be. I think each of us has an internal picture of that and I'm sure it varies enormously from one individual to the next. Right...
A Meditation on a Lump of Beeswax
A Meditation on a Lump of Beeswax November 20, 2015 I woke up early this morning because I was cold. I investigated. Space heater was not working. Is it the space heater, the extension cord, or the wall outlet? I didn't want to waste time with this so I mentally...
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I’m Alice
Writer by avocation: I escaped from the big city to rural Arkansas in 2006. I write this blog, short stories, essays, and I have books in progress. I live in the in Montgomery County surrounded by the Ouachita National Forest–1.8 million acres of mixed pine and hardwood forest. I have too many critters, too many interests, and not enough hours in the day. Welcome to the website and I hope that you enjoy it.
Alice Davis-Rains, 2886 W. Highway 88, Oden, Arkansas 71961
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