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Decade birthdays

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Today is the first day of my last week in my current decade. It's honestly a little hard to believe that I'm as ancient as I am. On Friday I'll enter the decade that I've always thought of as "officially OLD." Ouch! But I'm not going to fret. I did that my last decade and it turned out to be for no good reason. On my 20th birthday I was a newlywed living in New York with Ken, but we had … [Read more...]

Deb’s Favorites

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We hope you are enjoying these weekly feature posts from the authors of Inspired by Life…and Fiction. We're sharing some of our favorite things to help you get to know us a little better—and we’d love to hear your answers to these “favorites” questions in the comments below. Favorite Beverage (whether hot or cold): I love a piping hot Americano with heavy cream. (And no, I don’t … [Read more...]

A First!

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For the first time ever, a series of mine is available as an ebook "box set"! In other words, readers can purchase the whole series HERE on Amazon in one fell swoop. To create the set, I began by combining all three books inside Vellum, the formatting software I use. Check out this cute title page I made using the illustrated couples from the three covers... Then I went on the website … [Read more...]

Graduation Throwback

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This month marks 40 years since I graduated from high school. How is that even possible? So in honor of the occasion, I thought I’d show all the young ones out there what the mid-1980s were really like, at least in Texas! (Forgive the photo quality. It was a long time ago and they’ve been in photo albums for 40 years!)  Big Hair Yep. Big hair was even bigger in Texas! And when your hair … [Read more...]

Someone should do something about this

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Have you ever read a passage of Scripture or heard a sermon—and it just stays with you? This past Sunday's lesson at Church of the City Franklin, where Joe and I attend, was that kind of lesson for me. One of the phrases Darren repeated in this lesson was, "Someone should do something about this." Meaning when you see a particular situation and you keep having this recurring thought, "Someone … [Read more...]

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