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I'm delighted to introduce my friend Jennifer Major to you today!  She's funny, genuine, and wonderfully supportive of all her writer friends.  She also happens to be a redheaded Canadian who loves to read and write Native American stories.  Today she's sharing about her journey toward publication and inspiring us all in the process to work toward our own dreams.  -Becky There was this … [Read more...]

Visiting Hemingway

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While vacationing in the Florida Keys recently, my family and I visited the Key West home of Ernest Hemingway, one of the most famous and influential American writers of our time. He received the Nobel Prize for literature and won a Pulitzer Prize. He wrote The Sun Also Rises at age 27, followed shortly by A Farewell to Arms. As my younger brother and I toured his former house, we teased each … [Read more...]

Close Encounters of the Best Kind

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Every five years or so, the family I married into holds a reunion, and my husband, his mom, three brothers, "baby" sister, and as many of the grandkids—and now great-grandkids—as are able, gather at the designated place for a week of fun and adventure. After forty-plus years as a Raney myself, I'm here to testify that the Raneys have a corner on the "adventure market" and when you get twenty-five … [Read more...]

Through the Gates of Splendor, indeed

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As I'm sure you've heard, Elisabeth Elliot passed into glory yesterday morning. Through the Gates of Splendor, indeed. Bless you, Elisabeth Elliot, for enriching our lives and deepening our longing for Home, and for challenging us to trust in God even when trusting seems next to impossible. Can you imagine what that homecoming must have been like? Elisabeth finally seeing her Lord face to face, … [Read more...]

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