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Experiencing the Ressurection
By Henry & Melvin Blackaby I remember years ago through Henry Blackaby’s workbook Experiencing God. It was moving and life changing, and one of the things I took away from the experience is that I needed to join God in where he was already at work instead of going out on my own. I’m excited…
Joey Turns 11 and Random Thoughts About My Middle Son!
This month Joey turned 11! I can remember when he was two, climbing up on the counter to get an “ashew” (apples. He still loves his apples and all fruit for that matter…) and how he used to push a chair up against the door when he was two so he could climb on it…
The “Promised Land” of Writing
How do you feel about the state of your writing? Does it seem you have been wandering in the desert waiting for something miraculous to happen? Do you feel you are on the edge of something; anxious to move into what God has called you to do – to enter into your promised land? Many…
Writer Interrupted…to research
Help! I need to find out what a dead body looks like after being in the water for 24 hours (a bayou to be exact). Or, I need to describe how an alligator sounds. These are just a few things I had to stop writing on my current story and dig around until I found…
Look What I’m Making Today! Easter Meat Pie
Growing up I always spent Easter with my dad’s mom, Grandma Julie and my favorite part was eating her Easter Meat Pie and hunting for plastic eggs filled with money. Grandma Julie died when I was twelve, but her memory lives on. Every year I make her Easter Meat Pie which I remember eating cold,…
Just Curious…
If you’re reading this blog I assume you’re either: a) desperate for some reading materials b) are a writer…interrupted c) or love reading d) other If you fall under B or C, then why aren’t more of you entering my contests for free books. Maybe you’re skipping the book reviews and author interviews on my…
I’m a Winner!
I can’t believe my back cover blurb for my current WIP won at free synopsis critique a Pix-N-Pens! Go check it out!
Raising Ragpickers
The savior in Og Mandino’s “The Greatest Miracle in the World” is a mysterious old man with an affinity for what he calls human rags. In the story Og is the rag-an ambitious, successful magazine publisher who is burning out faster than a single-shot firecracker. The irony is that his magazine is about Success, but…
St. Patrick: Who was he really?
I don’t think I really started to think about St. Patrick, the man until I got married to an Irish/German/American, and had kids. Growing up, St. Patrick’s Day was all about wearing green and drinking beer. Yet, if St. Patrick was alive today, I think he’d be heartbroken over what his name has come to…
The End is in SIGHT and a Question about Submitting
I’m almost there! I can see the finish line of my WIP, but will I have the energy to cross it? And when I do will I dare to be satisfied with it! I’m sort of a perfectionist, but I know that one day I’ll have to send it out. In the past I sent…