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Guest Post: Crystal Caudill

April 16, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

Hey y'all! My friend Crystal is posting for me today. If you haven't read her historical romance/mystery books, you should! Now here's Crystal: There is Only One Way to Do It If we’ve not met, you probably don’t know that in addition to being the author of “Dangerously Good Historical Romance,” I am a full-time caregiver for my mother-in-love. As the only child of his legally blind mom, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, Family, Writing Tagged With: Crystal Caudill

D’Ann’s Favorites

April 13, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

We hope you are enjoying these weekly feature posts from the authors of Inspired by Life…and Fiction. We're sharing some of our favorite things to help you get to know us a little better—and we’d love to hear your answers to these “favorites” questions in the comments below. Favorite Beverage (whether hot or cold): Coffee! But I’m a bit of a coffee snob. I prefer a premium … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry Tagged With: Author Favorites

Are you ready for some baseball?

April 2, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

I enjoy Major League Baseball. I’ve followed the Texas Rangers since around the time the franchise began in the spring of 1972. I was five. So many memories surround outings to games—from my younger years sweating in the bleachers with our cooler of food and drinks brought from home (you could do that then!) to listening to games on the radio during elementary school to celebrating my parents’ … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: baseball

The Unseen TBR pile

March 19, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

When physical books were my go-to, my TBR (To Be Read, in case you aren’t familiar with the lingo!) pile sat on my nightstand. It started with one or two books as a young, busy mom. It morphed into half a dozen as the kids spent time at school. Beyond that, I had to find a new place to stash them. I’ve moved those TBR books around over the years, but while living in the condo in Austin, we found a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Reading Tagged With: tbr pile

God and His Name

March 5, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

Have you ever had a season where you find yourself face to face with the same theme everywhere you turn in life? I’m currently in a season like this. And I’ve learned that such things warrant my close attention! In January of this year, my next-door neighbor began a neighborhood Bible Study on the names of God. I was interested both because I haven’t done a ladies' Bible Study in years and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, Reading Tagged With: church, George MacDonald, God's character, God's name, John Mark Comer, Kay Arthur, Names of God, sermons

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