Happy Second Week of July on this Second Monday Morning of this Seventh Month of the Year.

Start preparing. The second Mary Story arrives this Friday at 9 AM. Get ready.

I am getting ready too because I have some finding to do. Editors have questions and questions mean looking for more of the story.

I will tell you a secret. I don’t write the story. I find the story. The story is already there, like a statue inside a piece of marble. To Michelangelo, sculpture was the taking away of chipped pieces of rock to reveal the marble statue that was always inside the block of stone. I am no Michelangelo, but I like his thought of finding things that are right in front of our eyes. He found people in rocks. I find stories in words. The stories are already there. You just have to keep chipping away.

Work at your day – you never know what you may find,

Grandpa Jim