I got it!

I just got back from a trip to California, and I came home with one of the new pennies! My sister and I stopped at a CVS pharmacy to get drinks so we didn't have to pay so much for them at the hotel and I walked out of there with a brand new penny! I was so excited about it and my sister said she didn't know what the big deal was, "It was just a penny." (Maybe she needs to read my book, "The Power Of A Penny" again, because it is not JUST A PENNY!
The big deal is that you can't go to the bank and request a roll of these babies. They are randomly sent to different banks and they can't be ordered. Anyway, it made my whole trip!

Home on the Range

A couple of days ago, I found an old penny by our hay shed. When it rains or the wind blows, all kinds of old stuff magically appears after being buried for years. I brought the penny in and cleaned it up and to my wonderful surprise, it was a 1909 penny and it had an "S" on it. This was absolutely amazing because I wrote my book about this exact penny which is very rare. It isn't in great condition so I could never sell it but it means so much to me because it was in the last place I would have ever imagined!

I was telling an old farmer about this today and he said there was an old homestead once where I found the old penny. It was fun to talk to him and learn about the area before my barn was built there. I still think that penny was sent to find me!

National Read Across America Day!

To celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday - it is National Read Across America Day!
Like millions of other children, my kids learned how to read by reading Dr. Seuss books. I love the witty words and the lesson's these books teach. We have a whole collection of these books, but my favorite is one that not many people know about. It was written in 1938 and it is called the 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins.Unlike most of Dr. Seuss's other books, it was written in prose rather than rhyming.
It talks about a poor boy named Bartholomew Cubbins who takes off his hat as the king passes by, because that is the law, but another hat magically appears on his head. The king's procession stops and the king tells him to take off his hat, so he does and then another one appears. This keeps happening so he is arrested and taken to the castle. Several wise men are brought in and no one can figure out what to do because each time Bartholomew takes off his hat, the new hat is even better than the last one. In the end, the 500th hat is magnificant and the king offers him 500 pieces of gold for the hat.
As we go through life, each of us takes off one hat and another one automatically is put one. When I took off my graduates cap when I graduated from college, I got married and immediately put on my wife crown, and then I added a mother crown and so on. The remarkable thing is, each new hat gets better and better!

So grab a book, maybe, "The Power Of A Penny," and cuddle up with a blanket - you don't have to have an excuse, because the government is telling you to sit down and read today!