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Some Much-Needed Fun…and Prizes!

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During these serious times, I'm thankful for fun friends like Erica Vetsch, who dreamed up a creative promotion and invited me and Michelle Griep to participate with her. All three of us have written Regency-era novels and we all live in Minnesota. Getting together to film the video segments was so much fun! I hope you enjoy watching them (and I hope the three of us will be able to get together … [Read more...]

How are you doing? Really.

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I'm so sick and tired of posts and articles and newscasts about you-know-what. I'm guessing you are too. But it is what life on this planet has become all about...for a while at least. And I really do want to know: how are you doing? I mean really? It's overwhelming to think of all the needs out there, but my prayer for you today is that you have everything you need, that you know your loved ones … [Read more...]

Writing Through the Distractions

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Many of us have had our routines disrupted due to the coronavirus. My college-age daughters had to leave their university and have transitioned to online school. While having them home is a blessing (and I love it!), inevitably the house gets noisier and messier, and I have more responsibilities. In addition to the added chaos of having more people living at home again, the constant barrage of … [Read more...]

“Shelter in place”

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"Shelter in place." "Lock down." "National Emergency." "The worst should be past us by June or July." These are crazy times we're living in, aren't they? And it would be easy to give into the sense of panic rising around us. But those who are clothed with Christ know better. He is our security and our firm anchor always. Always. When theologian Martin Luther was faced with the bubonic … [Read more...]

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