The Gift of Everyday Blessings

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“You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.” – Bryant McGill Hope you are having a tremendous week with blessings chasing you everywhere you go. Even more, I hope you notice those blessings. Sometimes we stay so busy that we don’t always pay attention to the good things in our lives. At my little country church we …

Meet Preacher Rowlett

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It’s only about a month until my new book, Along a Storied Trail is released and I can hope the book will be landing in some readers’ hands. So for fun tonight, I’m introducing you to one of the secondary characters in the story and letting him tell you a Bible story. So meet Preacher Rowlett. Preacher as the graphic says …

A Little Love for Violets

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The meaning of the violet changes depending on the color of the flower and the person the flower is sent to. Blue violet flowers symbolizes love and faithfulness, white violets represent purity and chastity, and yellow violets symbolize high worth and goodness. On Sunday’s post, I invited you all along on a wildflower hunt and then asked you about your …

Time for a Wildflower Hunt

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“What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” ― Roland R Kemler Every spring I give myself at least one afternoon to go wildflower hunting. And so, since the sun was shining today and the wildflowers were bound to be blooming, I took off for the creek with the dogs, Marley and Frankie. That …

Q & A Time Again – What do Readers Say and Ask

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Practice being curious; want to know things; ask questions. ~Anders Holm Not long ago I invited any of you who wanted to do so, to ask me a question. A few of you took me up on that and today I’m answering those questions. Some of them I get asked often when I give a book talk, but I never …

Spring’s Little Winters

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What winter is this? Once when I mentioned a “winter” in the springtime on Facebook, some people had never heard of such things. Perhaps it’s mostly something farmers or country people come up with to label the cool snaps that come every year after spring is officially here. It will warm up and give us some beautiful days and then …

Writer Question – How Do You Get Published?

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Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars. ~Nicholas Sparks Not long ago, I asked what questions you would like to ask me or perhaps any writer. I answered Lavon’s question about Hobbies, Ideas and Inspiration a week or so ago. You can click on the link if …

The Refuge – a Story of Sisters

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E-Book Deal on The Refuge – $1.99 I like books about sisters. I like to read them and I like to write about sisters in my books. Maybe that’s because I have two sisters and no brothers. Maybe because my mother had three sisters and no brothers. Maybe because my dad had one sister and no brothers. Maybe just because …

A Life Well Lived

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I’ve been a member of Goshen Baptist Church, small country church in my county for over fifty years now. It was the church my husband’s family were attending when we got married. My husband’s father was a tenant farmer, which means he worked a farm owned by someone else for half of the profits. They moved several times while Darrell …