ROGER never gets old because his stories are so charming. Enjoy!!

More Roger FINALLY!

After a couple of years, I suddenly figured out how to get back into all my blogs! Including Roger's.

And the timing is perfect as I just have released a new book--The Friendship Book--with a story from Roger called "Visiting Friends." 

   Here's the info on the new book and some free eBook downloads for the holidays.

The Friendship Book can now be ordered as a paperback pre-Christmas. Takes about 10 days to arrive so do it soon. The paperback is $5.99. if you have Amazon Prime, you get free shipping…and often get to read the eBooks for free.)

   The eBook is 99 cents and can be ordered for yourself, loaned to one friend at a time, or you can buy eBooks and give as gifts. (The plus to an ebook, aside from the price, is that photos are all in color and that you can give them up to a day or two before Christmas/Hannukah.)

   Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B077CZ4552

   Until Wednesday 11/29, the free eBook download is my husband’s children’s book Magical Christmas Pizza. I did the illustrations. This is the link:  https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018561DV0

   Free eBook for 12/2 to 12/6 is Gratitude. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01EWBMZZU

   Free eBook for 12/9 to 12/13 is The Holiday Sampler we did last year. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MTK90AG 

   My eBook called  Merry Christmas  was on free download last week but is 99 cents https://www.amazon.com/dp/B019GIVS2U.  My mother wrote and painted this little book for my sister and me at my 3^rd Christmas (1952).

   As always, I LOVE ❤ ❤❤❤❤ reviews. Five star reviews with praise are a great way to help these books attain good search function and to protect them from trolls or haters. If you can’t give any eBook 5 stars, please tell me why in an email (NOT in a review online) and I’ll determine if I that’s a change I can make so that you can give it a good review! My email is ariele@comcast.net.

   Happy, happy Holidays and thanks for being a friend!  Ariele

May Poetry Corner in Northwest Prime Time


Roger Wilson, longtime student and friend, died on March 22.

He contributed many poems and stories to Sharing Stories and to Poetry Corner.

His eBooks are still available on Amazon: Loving Life  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00OEHXA3Y  and Loving Wife: Roughneck Guide to a Happy Marriage http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RPBD59U . (Loving Life is also available in paperback form. It's in color.)
His blog is still fully functioning and full of wisdom at http://rogersroughneckwisdom.blogspot.com/. 

Roger and Francie on their wedding day...together again.

Dedicated to Fran, Francy, Francie—

wife, lover, mother, friend.

Thank you for reminding me that every day is a gift

we get to hold only for 24 hours.

The only thing that matters is helping others to feel better

 just by giving a smile, a hug or a song.

Those are the ones we will remember every day from now on.

Francie, you are the gift I open every new day

and happily take along with me.

I have loved you all day long for so long—66 years—a God given gift.

Look out, Francie.

Here I come.

Roger Wilson

Wyoming: A to Z

Wyoming: A to Z

Antelope lying in the Wyoming sun—

Baby fawn jumping over its mom—

Carrying ancient Indian reads—

Desert horny toads soaking up the sun—

Everyone enjoying the sun—

Fish jumping in the stream—

Getting one for breakfast…really fun—

How can one guy be so lucky to be born and raised in such a land?

Into every day comes the wonder of sky and plain. You can see for a hundred miles.

Just in case you ever travel this way, stop. Put your feet on Wyoming soil, and talk to the wind as it swirls around you.

Keep your nose working. The heavenly smells of clean pure air will revive your breathing system.

Leave nothing to chance. Go ahead and have a Wyoming romance.

Many have gone ahead of you. Some with red skins and left arrowheads for you to find.

Never say “never” when you are asked, “When are you coming again?” Just say “soon.”

Over hill and trail, ride a saddle horse and enjoy your day.

Please look up to the sky. You will be forced to say, “My, oh my.”

Quiet and silent and as gentle as a mother’s hand is this magic land.

Roger is watching, even when he is far away. For his mind is there every day.

So don’t stay away; your soul needs a Wyoming song.

Take your time, for Wyoming can be yours and mine.

Under no circumstance will you have a reason to say, “Wyoming has let me down.”

Victory is yours every day you live in this Wyoming Wonderland.

With a wide open heart, this Wyoming trip will set you apart.

X and O are often used to brand sheep, horses, and cattle. Just wanted you to know.

Yesterday is never mentioned for Wyoming people live for today.

Z is famous in the winter when temps go below zero.

Welcome to Wyoming the Wonderland.

Roger Wilson

Learning to Drive

Learning to Drive

My mother was about 45 years old when my brother purchased a used Chevrolet two-seater. When brother was a work, Mother decided she was going to learn how to drive.

She loaded me (six years old) and my younger brother Cy into the back seat and got the car started. It was parked on a flat area in front of the house. She found reverse gear and had the clutch pushed in. When she took her foot off the clutch pedal, the car zoomed backwards—crosswise in the road. The engine stopped. She restarted the car, found low gear and released the clutch. We were going down the hill—both sides of the road.

She finally got us on the right side of the road and away we did go—two little ones in the back, crying and wailing to get out. Mother turned a deaf ear to us.

Somehow, we made it to her sister’s house. The trip home was much better. Mom was getting used to the clutch and gas pedal—really doing pretty good. When we got to the hill, she stopped at the bottom, put the car in gear, and up we went.

She drove past our parking spot, turned onto the driveway to the garage, missed the brake but hit the gas!  Letting go of the wheel, she began hollering for Jesus to help us. The car swung left—across the lawn which put the hood right into the living room.

This was the last time my mother ever wanted or tried to drive!

Roger Wilson 6/18/15

“Married Young”

by Roger Wilson

I found it amazing to be a teenager:  living and laughing in our own world. Where did all that confidence come from? No problem seemed too big or too difficult for a young lady of 17 and a guy of 19.

We needed a place to live. We found a small old house on a beautiful lot with a great view of the Sound. We talked the owner into selling it to us for $2500—nothing down and $25 a month!

Together, we knocked all the plaster off the bedroom wall, put a new ceiling in, insulated the walls, went back with sheet rock and a nice paint job.

House was on its way to becoming our home.

The kitchen was next with bright wall paper, a wood cook stove with a new coating of black, and a new sink. Many warm happy hours were spent there.

Room by room, we made a home. It was this old house that taught us what it meant to be married and in love, and what it meant to be happy.

Announcing the recent publishing of Roger Wilson’s latest book: Loving Wife: Roughneck Guide to a Happy Marriage http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RPBD59U   Only 99 cents.

 

Photo: Roger and Francie Wilson

Finding myself with a blog is so amazing.

When I was born, people were still holding a piece of coal up to their ears to listen to a radio broadcast. [Early microphones and hearing aids used bits of carbon—like those in a piece of coal—to help transmit noises more clearly.]

People held their breath, turned the coal pieces carefully, and really listened, though what they heard was only a word here and there—and a lot of humming.

What a big event when my family got our first radio! It had a green eye that glowed when it was on, and we watched that glowing eye as we enjoyed Fibber McGee and Mollie and The Shadow. Only the Shadow “knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men.”

Today, my blog has put my writing out to a worldwide audience. People have been so kind. As I read their comments, I have a real appreciation for being able to find someone who needed a smile, someone who might say, “Right on, Roger!”

Thank you, one and all for tuning in and for asking me to write more.

I now have friends on a worldwide basis…and none of us has to hold our breath to hear each other’s thoughts!

Thank you, and hope you had a Merry Christmas and wishing you a happy New Year,

Roger Wilson

Author of Loving Life: A Roughneck’s Guide to Having it All.  http://www.amazon.com/Loving-Life-Roughnecks-Guide-Having-ebook/dp/B00OEHXA3Y   

                                                                                



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