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The Plot Thickens | Vickie McDonough

March 29, 2015 By Deborah Raney

Each Sunday "Inspired by Life...and Fiction" shares a Christian novelist's newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration. Bestselling author Vickie McDonough grew up wanting to marry a rancher, but instead married a computer geek who is scared of horses. She now lives out her dreams in her fictional stories about ranchers, cowboys, lawmen, and others in the Old … [Read more...]

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A Cheap Date

March 23, 2015 By Deborah Raney

Not long after my husband and I moved to Wichita, we decided it would be fun to explore the city's coffee shops. Living for most of our marriage in small towns, our options for places to eat or get a cup of great coffee were very limited. Still, through our forty years of marriage we've tried to always make time for dates with each other. But since Ken started his new business, our budget has … [Read more...]

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The Plot Thickens | Gail Gaymer Martin

March 22, 2015 By Deborah Raney

Each Sunday "Inspired by Life...and Fiction" shares a Christian novelist's newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration. Gail Gaymer Martin is an award-winning novelist with over 3-1/2 million books in print and more than fifty novels and novellas. Her non-fiction book, Writing The Christian Romance, is from Writers Digest Books is available online. Gail gardens with … [Read more...]

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The Plot Thickens | Creston Mapes

March 15, 2015 By Deborah Raney

Each Sunday "Inspired by Life...and Fiction" shares a Christian novelist's newest book and the garden spots where they find inspiration. When Creston Mapes isn't writing contemporary suspense novels, like his upcoming Sky Zone, he works as a freelance writer for clients such as Coca-Cola, The Weather Channel, Focus on the Family, ABC-TV, and many others. Creston and his family have … [Read more...]

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Get Your Game Face On!

March 9, 2015 By Deborah Raney

One of our family’s favorite things to do when we all get together is to play games. Board games, card games, word games, puzzles… You name it, we probably have the game. We’ve always played table games since our kids could first hold a deck of cards in their chubby little fists, but when our daughter-in-law joined our family, she introduced us to a whole new collection of board games. I don’t … [Read more...]

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