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Going Through the WIDE Gate
There are two gates at the dog park. One is the regular gate that most everyone uses while the second is a wider gate that city staff can use to bring in mowing equipment. Because the narrower gate is used most often, there's more of a path there and when it rains it...
A Message for Writer-Moms: I take it back
I mentioned on Monday that my brother and his family spent last weekend with us. That would be a total of four adults, one teenager, and two toddlers under the age of three. Let me say, five big people to two little people is not an unreasonable ratio. I think they...
Appalachian Wednesday–Singing My Way Home
Appalachia extends roughly (depending on which map you look at!) from Georgia to New York. But the only state that's 100% Appalachian is West Virginia. And that would be my home place. I was waxing poetic about my home state when a friend asked if I sang that John...
Dancing to Cotton-Eyed Joe
My baby brother and his family visited us this past weekend. For a childless couple set in their ways it was an adjustment! But we loved it and now the house is SO quiet. On Saturday night, after supper, we were in the family room relaxing and talking when the...
Plotters vs. Pantsers
There are generally two schools of fiction writers--plotters and pantsers. Plotters plan their novels--they know more or less what happens each step of the way and then write from plot point to plot point. I've seen calendars and spreadsheets and outlines that leave...
Appalachian Wednesday–The Swimmin' Hole
At work recently we had a "Pool Olympics" for the kids in the ministry. Staff took those who wanted to go to the public pool in town and had a series of games for them to play complete with prizes. It was a broiling July afternoon perfect for the pool and there I was...
Multiplying Miracles in My Life
Each of my novels takes one of Christ's miracles and puts it in the hands of a mere mortal. None of them do miracles intentionally, they just seem to have this ability that manifests itself when the time is right. And so I've read and reread the accounts of walking on...
Fiction Friday Guest Post
Today I'm posting over at the awesome Married . . . With Fiction site hosted by writing friends Heather Day Gilbert, Jennifer Major, and Becky Doughty. Swing on by if you'd like to hear my story of "making it" in the publishing world.
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