Appalachian Blessings

In case you didn't hear, a week or so ago the east coast was covered up in snow. Which is bad for driving around, but great for reading a book under a blanket. My brother lives on the family farm in West Virginia and had my five-year-old niece to entertain over the...

While I think last weekend's winter storm didn't pack quite the wallop forecaster's feared, it did cover us up in quite a bit of snow. Which is lovely and terribly inconvenient if you want or need to go anywhere. Thankfully, we haven't had a pressing need to drive...

I appreciated all the folks who commented on last week's review of Julie Cantrell's powerful and moving novel, The Feathered Bone. And the winner of free a copy is . . . pattymh2000! Patty, e-mail your mailing address to salt96@charter.net and I'll get your copy to...

In my third novel--A Tapestry of Secrets--my heroine is a quilt artist. Her mother (Margaret) and grandmother (Perla) are traditional quilters, but Ella makes pieces meant to be hung on the wall or displayed on a table. My inspiration came from my own quilting...

Julie Cantrell is brave. Are you brave enough to read her latest book? The Feathered Bone is amazing and difficult and heartbreaking and beautiful. If you like fun romances, or meticulous historicals, or impossible-to-guess mysteries--this book may not be for you. But...

The new year is upon us and there's probably a significant group out there that's already given up on new year's resolutions. I resolved years ago not to make resolutions and have stuck to it admirably. But we DID celebrate January 1 the way so many folks do--with...