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That 10 a.m. Christmas Morning Feeling
You know the feeling. You experienced it when you were a kid. The anticipation is over. The presents have been opened. The cousins aren't coming over for hours and all those exciting gifts suddenly seem less, well, exciting. It's 10 a.m. on Christmas morning and your...
A Cello Interlude – Merry Christmas!
I love the cello. I love it so much I took lessons for two years while in my 30s (old dog, new tricks!). While I did learn enough to play a simple (VERY simple) song at a friend's wedding, I realized two things. 1) If I wanted to play tolerably well, I would have to...
Article in Now & Then
Check out the latest issue of Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine. The theme is "serving Appalachia" and I have an article--The Shepherd of the Hills--about the founder of the children's home where I work. I LOVE this magazine. It has wonderful articles about...
All I Want for Christmas . . . Redux
When I was a kid I can remember intensely longing for two things: a horse and a sister. I had no preference for an older or younger sister, though obviously if my parents were going to give her to me, she'd have to be younger. I don't remember badgering mom and dad...
The Christmas Tree That Almost Wasn't
I've had a Christmas tree every year for the past 40 years. A LIVE Christmas tree lit and covered in ornaments rich with memories (not so much when I was one, but you get the idea). And then came Christmas 2011. And I pondered whether I really wanted to go to all that...
Do I need a tagline?
If you talk about marketing these days, you talk about branding. I've done quite a bit of branding in my "real" jobs in public relations and marketing. But branding myself as an author? Yikes! One of the elements of a brand can be (doesn't have to be) a tagline. As...
Falling for "Waterfall"
I've been reading quite a bit lately. With two books written and the third roughed out, it seemed like a good time to do some "research" and indulge my love of reading. I try to vary my reading--throwing in some non-fiction and non-Christian books in addition to...
Next Comes the Stocking of Little . . . Sally
Oh, Christmas memories! "Up on the Housetop" came on the radio and I caught myself singing along. And just like that I was in the backseat of the family car snapping my fingers to the "click, click, click" of reindeer hooves while Dad led the singing from behind the...
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