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Book Making Addicts
My kids love to make books. In fact, I don’t even try to conserve paper anymore. What’s 500 sheets a month compared to cultivating a love of creative writing, right? (relax, 500 is a slight exaggeration!) Since they were little, my girls have been putting picture books together–letting me write the captions till they were…
Prayer Requests
So many people I know right now are battling breast cancer or some strange sickness, I don’t know if I could possibly list them all. But some of the most urgent ones are following: Margaret’s mother Susan Her blood pressure is high, her blood sugar is high and so is her heart rate. If she…
Mid-Week Motivation
Starting Your Day out Right Scripture, Short Devotion “For You cause my lamp to be lighted and to shine; the Lord my God illumines my darkness.”~~Psalm 18:28 (AMP) I don’t know if you saw the sunrise this morning, but it was brilliant. At first just the hints of red and purple trailed the bottoms of…
Using the Internet to Network
For several years now I have been on the Internet connecting with readers and writers, promoting my books. I sometimes wonder what it would be like without the Internet. It certainly has changed things for the writer from researching to promoting to networking. I know of some writers who aren’t on the Internet, but the…
Spring Break Goals
Hubby sidetracked my goals by getting sick on Sunday with a stomach bug! But I let him sleep all day and he’s almost 100%. Then Joey threw in a bunch of birthday requests including breakfast in bed and a rollerskating party in the garage with a homemade rollerskate birthday cake. Soooo here are the things…
Pens Should Be Mightier than Toilet Plungers
Martin Espada wrote this advice to young poets in The Republic of Poetry, but it applies to all writers, Christian bloggers included. Advice to Young Poets Never pretend to be a unicorn by sticking a plunger on your head. Let me just extract a few editorial lessons here. 1) “Never pretend.” Good words are always…
A New SpringThing!
Since I’ve had kids, I’ve been trying to make Easter more about Christ’s resurrection than the Easter Bunny. But in today’s materialistic society where retailers want to make money, it hasn’t been easy. Though we’ve technically never told our children the Easter Bunny, baskets of goodies were waiting for them after church, eggs were hidden…
Joey’s Got Big Plans Tomorrow…
for his tenth birthday. Since we’re not having his official party until the end of the month (after spring break when all his friends will be home), I wasn’t planning on doing more than our usual cake with the neighbors, and mom and dad’s special dinner with just the birthday boy, but he’s go it…
Posting at Writer…Inerrupted, Again
Sometimes as founder/editor of a group blog you have to be ready to jump in with a post or two to fill in an empty slot. So check out my post today on Abusing Grace . No, not my child Grace. God’s Grace!
Abusing Grace
Handing out grace is tricky business. When I use it in my parenting I run the risk of my children taking my grace and running, without a changed heart. But do I stop offering grace? No. Because true grace will transform a person’s heart. It’s the same with God and sinners. You know the kind.…