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GROWING GRAMMAR: Sites for soaring
Today I’m featuring a few sites of interest and invite you to explore them. I hope they provide information, entertainment, and justification for being on the internet. Double-Tongued Dictionary: A site to behold! You can find new words, slang, and jargon. The “About” page bills the site as one that “records undocumented or under-documented words…
Oh, The Games We Play
Sometimes it’s hard to get motivated. I tend to get bogged down and overloaded with all the stuff I have to do, and then become paralyzed and unable to do any of it! I often have to play games with myself just to get moving in the right direction. I love the “Just for Today”…
Stitched
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV With great thought and vision, fabrics are selected. My hand glides along the patterns as I imagine the finished creation. First I stretch the cloth, smoothing the wrinkles, measuring…
I’m Calling it Quits!
Life has gotten crazy with trying to be a good mom to my kids, writing, and managing all my blogs, something has got to go. So I’ve decided to after this WIP, I’m kissing my fiction career goodbye and blogging goodbye! It’s apparent I can’t do everything well, so I have to let some things…
This Interruption Called Cancer
by Guest Author Mike Dellosso Talk about interruptions. Hey, I’m a husband and a daddy to three little, very talkative, very active girls. I’m used to interruptions. But on March 17 (St. Patrick’s Day–I’m not Irish) I sat at work with my ear to the phone, thinking I’m only 35, I have a wife and…
March 2008 Carvival of Christian Writers #18
Catch Spring Fever at the March 2008 Carnival of Christian Writers #18 Literary agent Rachelle Gardner shares some tips on how to decide which of your book ideas are viable in “Decisions, Decisions“. At My Writing Mentor blog, author Tricia Goyer reflects on the heart of “The Underdog” and offers great…
Happily Even After
Looking for a book that looks at married love with a touch of sass? Then Happily Even After is the book for you! Marilynn Griffith’s latest release, this book is an honest and hilarious look at the challenges of maintaining love in marriage while establishing some badly needed boundaries. The latest installment in the Sassy…
Make a Book Trailer FREE!
Jill Elizabeth Nelson here, ready to launch you on a voyage of peril and discovery! An epic journey. . . All right, I’ll lay off the melodrama. This is a project, okay? And it’s going to have its hair pulling moments, guaranteed, but I found the pain worth the gain. At a recent mini-retreat with…
Learning from Loss
Imagine losing everything. It’s bad enough worrying about losing all my WIPs to a computer crash, but after this past Monday, such anxieties seem pretty small scale. You see, this past Monday, my husband’s sister and her family lost everything in a house fire. Everything but each other. These things happen and we all wonder…
The Final Countdown
Does anyone remember the eighties hair band, Europe? Today their song “The Final Countdown” has been playing over and over in my head. It sounds silly, but now that the countdown to Ruby Among Us is less than two months away, I’m really starting to get excited. “The Final Countdown” just seems so fitting. There are…