An Outtake Schoolyard Scene with Emmie

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  If you have read my books, you know that I love having a young character in my stories. I’ve had two young teens as viewpoint characters – Jocie, 13, in my Hollyhill books and Kate, 14, in Angel Sister, my first Rosey Corner book. But I like having even younger characters and sometimes make them viewpoint characters too. Leatrice, …

Sunspots in the Spring

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Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be. ~Edna St. Vincent Millay Here in Kentucky this year we’ve had an interesting up and down March. One week we had snow and single digit windchills. Not that many days later, we had a record breaking high temperature in the 80’s. But that’s March. Spring can come …

Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt Stop #17

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Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! See all the great books you might win here. • The hunt BEGINS on 3/19 at noon …

Me – Without Glasses? Hard to Imagine

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  Hi, everybody. I’ve worn glasses for sixty or so years. I can’t quite imagine me without glasses. But today, due to an issue with my eyes, I had cataract surgery on my right eye and tomorrow I’ll have the same on my left eye. They say when my eyes recover from the surgery, I won’t need glasses for distance. …

Meet Emmie in A Chance for Kallie Mae

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“But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” …Luke 12:7 (NKJ)   Thanks to all of you who read the excerpts I shared from my books set in the Appalachian regions of Kentucky and to those of you who left comments. I always enjoy reading what you …

Home – Such a Beautiful Word

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  “The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” — Maya Angelou Sorry to be late with this post. Sometimes Wednesday sneaks up on me and right on past especially when I’m trying to find the words for a new story and facing a deadline zooming …

On a Hillside under the Stars

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  There wouldn’t be a sky full of stars if we were all meant to wish on the same one. — Unknown Hope you enjoy another Appalachian scene in my Appalachian book giveaway chance. I asked last post which book you might like to see another scene from. An Appalachian Summer was the five vote choice. I’m still surprised I …

A City Girl Comes to the Appalachian Mountains

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  I’m deep in the Appalachia area again for the new story I’m working on and for the story releasing in May, A Chance for Kallie Mae. So, I might as well be deep in Appalachia here on One Writer’s Journal too. Besides, I do have that Appalachian book giveaway going right now. I know I shared a winter scene …