After the first of the year, my family and I took a trip to Murfreesboro, TN for my nephew's wedding. My husband's brother (the father of the groom) had visited Abilene when our son married last May, but we hadn't seen the rest of the Tennessee Witemeyers since well before COVID. What a joy to spend time with family! We stayed up late each night playing card and board games, shared meals together, … [Read more...]
New Year – New Reading Challenge
Every year for the past four years, I've hosted a Reading Challenge in my Posse Facebook group. This has been the single-best motivator for me to carve out reading time every month. With a full-time day job, full-time writing, and plenty of family and church activities on my daily schedule, finding time to read for pleasure can be difficult. These challenges, however, hold me accountable, prod me … [Read more...]
Karen’s Big Christmas Giveaway
The Christmas season is here, and if you're anything like me, you're directly in the middle of all the hustle and bustle. Shopping, baking, decorating the house, wrapping gifts, getting packages in the mail . . . It seems like every time I scratch one thing off the to-do list, three more appear to take its place. Wouldn't it be nice if someone sent you a big care package to help you relax and … [Read more...]
A Dream Come True
The Christy Award is considered the most prestigious award for Christian fiction. Named in honor of Catherine Marshal's groundbreaking novel, Christy, this award was established in 1999 to acknowledge the value and impact of the novel of faith in contemporary culture. Christy was published in 1967. An historical novel set in the fictional Appalachian village of Cutter Gap, Tennessee in 1912, … [Read more...]
The Art of Reading
One of the things that I love about Victorian era portraits is that many of them show the connection between women and books. One of my favorite artists from this time period is Charles Edward Perugini. He was an Italian artist who moved to England to study under Lord Leighton. He started painting classical scenes then turned his talents to the more profitable work of portrait painting, … [Read more...]
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