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Thank God It’s Monday?

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Ok, I realize it’s Tuesday (or later) as you read this, but it’s Monday as I write this! How do you feel about Mondays? Now that I work from home, I don’t get the Sunday-night-dread-of-Monday that I once did. But I admit I used to be guilty of the “Moan, it’s Monday” mantra. In our adult Sunday school class at church we are going through a series called, “The Monday Switch” and I am finding it … [Read more...]

Flawed and Beautiful

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I loved the analogy my pastor, Peter Vogt, shared in church this Sunday. He was describing how Michelangelo took a hunk of flawed marble other artists had rejected, and claimed it for himself. Then he dedicated years to chipping away everything that “wasn’t David,” and sculpting the breathtaking masterpiece we see today. But even after the sculptor was finished and paid for his work, he didn’t … [Read more...]

The Holly and the Ivy

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For some reason, the Christmas carol, “The Holly and the Ivy” has been going through my head for weeks, and for the life of me, I could not recall any other words of the song. Thinking of holly and ivy caused me to pause and wonder why we sing about it in the first place and how it relates to Christmas. I read that holly and ivy have been a mainstay of British Christmas decorations since at least … [Read more...]

Busy, Busy, Book Release Time

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Last week was BIZZ-EEE! First, I celebrated the release of my new book, The Secret of Pembrooke Park, at my local bookstore. This book launch is my big event of the year—my night to feel almost like a celebrity with a big crowd to cheer me on. If you were to study this crowd closely—or the photo slideshow I play while people are arriving—you would see that many of these same people attend year … [Read more...]

Release Time is Giveaway Time

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As I type this, copies of my new book, The Secret of Pembrooke Park, are finding their way onto bookstore shelves and into readers' hands, and the e-book becomes available for Kindle on this very day, 11/25! Release time means lots of publicity and promotion to get the word out, and one of the most fun kinds of promotion is offering a giveaway. I’ve teamed up with two other author-friends … [Read more...]

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