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Bridges (Get the e-book FREE today only!)

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My novel, Bridges, set in the little town of Winterset, Iowa, home of the covered bridges of Madison County, is free for today only. Ken and I first visited the iconic bridges on a trip to visit our youngest son when he attended college in Iowa. That's where the idea for this book was first sparked, and we visited several times after that so I could research the area and the bridges. You might … [Read more...]

Babies, Bible Studies & Books, oh my…

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Will you consider it overindulging if I share a couple of quick pics (or more) of Leo, our precious grandson? I hope not, because we are in absolute love with this little guy! Here are three pics from a recent photo shoot but let's count them as one since they're small and "tiled." : ) [Photo credit: Snaps by Sally] I just love Leo in this little burnt orange onesie (below)—and might … [Read more...]

What You Can’t See . . . Matters

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Two weeks before Christmas, the water meter reader left a note on my gate--"Meter is moving at 12:00 p.m.," it said. Apparently the meter reader is a man of few words, but I grasped his meaning--at a time when a house should be relatively free of running water, mine wasn't. So I went out to the street to look at the meter, and saw that the man was right--the little triangular symbol that … [Read more...]

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