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No one comes here by accident. ~Frontier Nurse saying These Healing Hills is the first book that I set in the Eastern Kentucky Appalachian Mountains and featured history of the region. In hunting for a new story idea I read about Mary Breckinridge and how she started the Frontier Nursing Service and brought midwives to go up into the hills …
Sometimes you just need to take a few hours out of your busy life to meet a real lady. That’s what I did this week and what a blessing that was. A few months ago, a friend told me she knew a woman who was a little girl in the mountains when the packhorse librarians were riding out on the …
When you are a dog lover like me and you write stories to share with readers, you might come up with some four-legged furry characters from time to time. So far I haven’t put Frankie in a story yet, but here in this picture he looks like he’s telling me that might be a fun idea. Well, actually he’s insisting …