As the holidays are over, and we begin to find places for all the gifts we received, I thought you might enjoy reading this. Because some parts of Christmas we never pack away… (Reprinted from my article in Fountain of Life magazine [folmag.org] Nov/Dec 2012.) It was the best Christmas gift ever! The kind that’d make […]
Beautiful faces. Twenty of them. Some probably hadn’t even lost their first tooth yet. Now, they’ve lost their lives. The country is reeling, parents are hugging their children tighter, and the world is asking “why?” All just before Christmas. The rain this week seemed fitting.
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.”― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx There’s nothing like a good book. But what makes it good? That’s a little more personal. When people heard I wrote novels? Some said, “I can’t
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(an adaption of my column originally printed as the first page of a school newsletter from several years back) … I told you I’d take this space to write what I thought we needed to hear…what I needed to hear. This time, I thought maybe that might be an introduction of myself. Who is this
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It’s the main question of any writer’s conference… For me, I guess the question is better and easier termed, what Don’t I write? One day a teacher introduced me to her class as a “real writer.”A kindergartner piped up. “What do you write? Bibles?” Now, that would be on the list of Not’s.
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It all started from a newspaper article and a “let’s-do-coffee” date. First, the newspaper article: a nice reporter asked if she could do an article on my family. Next thing you know, I’m labeled “SuperMom.”–Goodness! Not on your life! Then, at a meeting at the local Starbucks, a woman informed me that “not everyone is
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