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“Having a dog will bless you with the happiest days of your life and one of the worst days.” — Author Unknown Sadly, I had one of those worst days yesterday when I had to let Marley go over the Rainbow Bridge. He began showing his age a year ago when he started getting lost when we went for walks. …
What a beautiful week we’ve had here in Kentucky. Spring has been all around with blooming trees and warm sunshine. It was enough to give you Spring fever and make some of you want to go fishing. Not me. I haven’t discovered whatever it is about fishing that makes people long after a pond bank. I like to walk on …
When life gets tangled, just jump rope. In my upcoming release, A Chance for Kallie Mae, (May 19th) Kallie Mae’s little sister makes friends at the one-room school and has fun jumping rope. But did you know the Dutch settlers brought the fun of jumping rope to North America in the 17th to 18th Century. Then it was mostly a boys’ …
Family ties are cherished things, forged in childhood days, by love of parents, deep and true, and sweet familiar ways.– Terri Burritt Easter Sunday – a day to celebrate with our church families and a day to gather with our extended families. Did you celebrate the holiday with your family? What traditional things do you do for Easter? When my …
“May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.” – Native American Proverb I love when the wildflowers start blooming. I walked over this morning to check on their progress. That’s when I realized I’d let Wednesday slip past me without sharing a post. So, you are getting a Thursday morning post …
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, …
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 …
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye I hope you all enjoyed …
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 …
“Time passes quickly but one thing always lasts – the love and support found in you.” —Catherine Pulsifer Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday. She’s been celebrating in heaven for over ten years now. Seems hard to think about her being gone that long in some ways. In other ways, it seems forever. She was my world when I was the …