When a storm is coming, all other birds seek shelter. The eagle alone avoids the storm by flying above it. So, in the storms of life may your heart be like an eagle’s and soar above.” – Author Unknown

Where do your rights stop? Yesterday, we went to Walmart to get a few things we need for our campsite.  People were smoking cigarettes by the doors, so I had to walk past cigarette smoke to enter the store. When Read more…


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Martin Luther King served both humanity and peace by teaching others how to live with each other. Everyone would agree that Martin Luther King Jr served humanity, as his niece stated this morning on the news. Webster defines humanity as Read more…


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Do you remember Barney, the big purple dinosaur who had his own syndicated television show? He was right about one thing in particular… This morning I woke up singing my own version of Barney’s song to our two small dogs. Read more…


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How do you say I love you to others? Do you say it in the way your loved one needs to hear it? One of our two fur babies, Simba, is sometimes hyper.  While in hyper mode last night, he Read more…


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It was my pleasure to cause my current problem, and I am also enjoying solving it! Ten years ago, I was as slender as I was the day I graduated from high school.  But then I met my second husband.  Read more…

"Each reader's heart is like an eagle's and can soar above the storms in life..." - Near a River's Author, BJ Rae.

Written with uplifting words of encouragement, Near a River is a photographic children's book about two young bald eagles who are eager for their mother to teach them to fly so they may soar over the storms in their lives. Near a River encourages early childhood reading. BJ hopes that every child becomes a strong reader and soars above the storms in life.

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