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A few years ago I went to a Christian Fiction Readers Retreat. It was blast meeting some avid readers and being able to get to know the other authors there. Authors are alone with their keyboards or notebooks for many hours a day for weeks and months, maybe years, as they come up with new stories. Well, maybe they aren’t …
“Names are powerful things. They act as an identity marker and a kind of map, locating you in time and geography. More than that, they can be a compass.” ― Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star I was searching for something to post about last weekend and looked back at some of my first posts in 2008 here …
True luxury is being able to own your time – to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation. ~Ashton Kutcher Do you have a front porch? I grew up in a house with a front porch. We didn’t have chairs on it. That would have gotten …
What makes you happy? I’m sure if you ever complained to your parents that you weren’t happy, they may have told you that you can’t be happy all the time. But sometimes happiness is a state of mind. You probably know people who seem to be happy every time you see them. They are ready to smile and look on …
Years ago, I started walking with my dogs early in the mornings. First I had my best ever dog, Oscar, along with me. Later, after Oscar crossed the rainbow bridge, I got Frankie and then Marley who go for my morning walks with me now. On my Facebook author page, I started inviting my FB friends to go along with …
True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. ~William Penn Do you think silence is harder to find in our current day with so many electronic devices and all the busy things we do? And what really constitutes true silence? Is it even possible to find that …
Sienna and Calla were my young sisters in my recent release, When the Meadow Blooms. I always enjoy seeing one of my stories through a child’s or a young person’s eyes. This one was no different. The girls are 9 and 14 at the beginning of the story and Calla is definitely a big sister. She wants to help Sienna …
“Humankind is drawn to dogs because they are so like ourselves — bumbling, affectionate, confused, easily disappointed, eager to be amused, grateful for kindness and the least attention.” Pam Brown Thank you all for making my Photo Caption Game fun this time. I loved reading all your caption suggestions. Riggs is looking like he might be wondering how so many …
Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.– Orhan Pamuk And so we come to our last photo in our caption game. This one seemed to go fast. Maybe because I was really busy last week. Sometimes I think I’m too busy, but then I love what I’m doing. Well, most of the time. Walking the …
