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Ninety Years of Living
A friend of mine celebrated her 90th birthday earlier this week. She began the celebration last Saturday and I'm not sure it's over yet. I took her flowers on the big day and visited a while. She began her birthday by eating cake for breakfast. Her husband of 60+...
A Time to Read
I'm often torn between reading and writing. I need to read in order to be a good writer. I need to read books in my genre, to read what's hot in the market to better understand trends and to read books about craft so I can always keep learning. But while I'm doing all...
Let's Talk About Sex . . . In Christian Fiction
I just finished Courting Morrow Little--Laura Frantz's second novel. I loved it almost as much as The Frontiersman's Daughter, which I wrote about here. While I liked Lael Click's character and story a smidgen more than I did Morrow Little's, the second book did...
A Solemn . . . I Mean Irreverent . . . Poem
I really like this poem of mine. It comes from a story my dad has often told about a group of men digging a grave in the church cemetery where I grew up. My husband thinks it's a little bit awful. What say you? MOURNING OR A MURDER OF CROWS Men gather when a grave...
The Price of Beauty or How to Embrace Change
We've been having that sort of perfect fall weather when it's in the 70s, the sky is a brilliant blue and the leaf color is at or near peak. How can you not go outside? So outside we went to hike in Pisgah National Forest with Thistle testing the limits of her leash....
Can YOU Resist Lavish Love?
We're continuing to work our way through Saturdays With Stella in my Sunday School class. It's a book that takes the lessons author Allison Pittman learns in her dog's obedience classes and applies them to our relationship with our Master--God. It's often insightful,...
Finding Carlotta Ratts
After writing Monday's post, it occurred to me that Carlotta Ratts was a sufficiently unusual name that I might be able to track her down via the Internet. So, I did a search and here's what I found out about the woman who once owned my copy of Longfellows Poems:...
A Home for Homeless Books
I love to give used books a good home. I try to support my favorite living authors by buying their books, but, well, Charles Dickens probably isn't worrying about his sales. And my copy of David Copperfield from 1850 is so lovely with its blue boards printed with a...
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