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Our Sufficient God

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I recently started a Beth Moore study entitled "A Woman's Heart, God's Dwelling Place."  One of the verses we read during the first week focused on God's call to Abram in Genesis 12:1: The Lord said to Abram, 'Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.' Well, yikes.  That's a lot of leaving.  God was asking Abram to give up a great … [Read more...]

Reading Getaways and a Reading Giveaway

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My kids are still grieving the loss of summer. With school back in session, there is less time to play computer games, watch Netflix, and get together with friends. I've warned them that when they enter the real world, summer as they know it completely ceases to exist. They are appropriately devastated by this news and do whatever they can to appreciate their easy life while they have it. Yet … [Read more...]

What to leave behind

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As I'm writing this, I'm keeping an eye on the weather. Hurricane Irma is fast approaching the state of Florida and we could receive a direct hit. The storm could take a turn and go straight up through Florida or it could hit the eastern coast of the US. We don't know yet. It might change and give the panhandle where we live, a run for our money. So today, I've been washing clothes, buying … [Read more...]

“Editing” Life

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I'm currently heavy into writing the first full-length Carnton novel (title yet TBD). Each day when I begin writing, I reread what I've written the day before. It's part of my routine. It helps me to get back into the flow of things, plus I have a pretty wicked editor inside me that I have a tough time shutting down. I tweak here and there. Remove sentences. Move things around. … [Read more...]

Nearly Half A Century

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Last week, my husband Ken and I celebrated our wedding anniversary, and it was an almost-big one—47 years. We are inching our way toward half a century. And what a crazy, exciting, 47- year ride it has been! When Ken proposed to me he said, “If you marry me we’ll probably never be rich, but we’ll see the world.” And he was right. We met while attending college in Michigan, got married in my home … [Read more...]

A Half Empty Nest

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This past summer was a challenging one for me in many ways. I shared about some of my earlier difficulties in this post here. After experiencing torrential rainfall in our town and almost two feet of flooding in our basement, I can empathize to a small degree with the Houston flood victims. It’s tough and the drying out and rebuilding is very time-consuming. Most recently, we had a couple … [Read more...]

An Audiobook Giveaway!

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Hey friends! Do you love audiobooks? Then this GIVEAWAY is for you! In celebration of the recent release of To Wager Her Heart, the third and final Belle Meade Plantation novel, I'm holding another giveaway. This time, for Belle Meade audiobooks. If audiobooks aren't your thing—which please don't tell me that because I love them and have always considered us kindred spirits … [Read more...]

Reading Challenge

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I'd love to talk about what you are reading this year. I've always been an avid reader, sometimes reading more than 50 books a year. But since I started writing over twenty years ago, my reading has suffered (at least reading for pleasure). Of course, I'm always reading for research, I read as a freelance editor, and I read what I'm writing myself. But it's a real treat to choose a book simply … [Read more...]

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