Storytelling Weekend

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“Inside each of us is a natural-born storyteller, waiting to be released.” — Robin Moore, author I love storytelling. I guess that’s not a surprise to any of you since I’m always trying to tell stories or write stories or share other people’s stories. I love listening to stories. Because I loved listening to my mother’s stories of growing up …

Feet under the Table

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Food tastes better when you eat it with your family. I enjoy having my children with their feet under my table to share a meal. I like sitting down with friends to share a meal. While the food is good, the conversation is better. For several years, we’ve gone on what we call a sibling retreat with my husband’s family …

Front Porch Family Talk

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“In family relationships, love is really spelled T.I.M.E.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf It’s been a tough year for extended families. To get together or not to get together? Events and family gatherings we have taken for granted all our lives  are now questions of should you or shouldn’t you do them. Reunions have been postponed a year. Birthdays celebrated without …

Tell Me a Story

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When I have a book celebration giveaway the way I am now for my July release Love Comes Home (it will be sneaking in stores very soon), I sometimes ask readers and friends to share a story with me when they send in their entries. It’s not necessary to enter, but it’s fun. This time I asked for Homecoming or …

A Time for Stories

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~The holiday season is such a great time for families to get together and share stories – some old and heard dozens of times and some others new and never heard before. Here my little granddaughter is sharing one of the never heard before stories. She’s been making up stories since before she was two, so maybe someday she’ll be …