Faithful attendance at church meetings brings blessing you can receive in no other way. ~Ezra Taft Benson I enjoy being at church with my church family every Sunday. Our congregation is small in number but we would love to welcome more people into our Christian family. Today we had Homecoming Day to celebrate our church being an organized body of …
When the Meadow Blooms is available for a special low ebook price this week only. You can download the book for $1.99 or less according to where you like to book shop online. I have some buy links on my website here. Always look twice before you hit enter when buying a book online to be sure you’re getting the price …
If you’ve read much inspirational fiction, the name Suzanne Woods Fisher is sure to be one you know. Suzanne is a bestselling author of over 40 books. She’s written numerous Amish themed books, historical fiction, contemporary fiction, children’s stories, and nonfiction. If you don’t know Suzanne’s work already, you can check out more about her and her books on her …
Where do you get your ideas? That’s a question I’m often asked, especially when I talk to young people. It’s a question I may get asked tonight when I talk to friends and readers at the Henderson County Public Library. I’m so looking forward to being there and trying to come up with answers to whatever questions that might get …
I had a birthday last Friday. I love birthdays. I don’t particularly like counting them, but I like celebrating the gift of another year coming my way. The day before my birthday last week, I put a “Throwback Thursday” picture on my Facebook page of me with a dog named Jody. I mentioned that he was the best birthday gift …
Grandparents are a family’s greatest treasure, the founders of a loving legacy, The greatest storytellers, the keepers of traditions that linger on in cherished memory. Grandparents are the family’s strong foundation. Their very special love sets them apart. Through happiness and sorrow, through their special love and caring, grandparents keep a family close at heart. ~Unknown Source Did you know last …
I’ve been having so much fun reading through all the entries in my newsletter giveaway. If you got the newsletter, any email in answer to it got you an entry, but for fun I asked people to come up with things to add to my Parting Shots of ways that might prove you are a country girl. And boy, …
Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life. ~Barbara Kingsolver A few years ago I did an interview with a writer who said very emphatically that he never read fiction. He didn’t like fiction. True stories were all that he ever read or wanted …
What did you like best about going back to school in the fall or actually late summer around our way these days? When I was a kid, school usually started the day after Labor Day. That seemed the official end of summer. I was always ready to go back to school and …
When something goes wrong in your life, just yell “plot twist” and keep moving. Sometimes you think you have everything under control. You’ve got something to do that you’re looking forward to the way I was looking forward to going to Rowan County Library Wenesday to talk to readers and writers. I packed up some books in case I could …