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Guest Post: Crystal Caudill

April 16, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

Hey y'all! My friend Crystal is posting for me today. If you haven't read her historical romance/mystery books, you should! Now here's Crystal: There is Only One Way to Do It If we’ve not met, you probably don’t know that in addition to being the author of “Dangerously Good Historical Romance,” I am a full-time caregiver for my mother-in-love. As the only child of his legally blind mom, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Faith, Family, Writing Tagged With: Crystal Caudill

Are you ready for some baseball?

April 2, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

I enjoy Major League Baseball. I’ve followed the Texas Rangers since around the time the franchise began in the spring of 1972. I was five. So many memories surround outings to games—from my younger years sweating in the bleachers with our cooler of food and drinks brought from home (you could do that then!) to listening to games on the radio during elementary school to celebrating my parents’ … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family Tagged With: baseball

A peek into my (very distant) past

February 19, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

This is a story of boxes lost and found. Or rather found, because I really didn’t know they were lost!  When we sold our house in Rockwall after our move to Austin in 2015, I found some things we’d forgotten up in our attic when we were checking over the house before closing. They were boxes of things. My mother graciously let me leave them in her attic.  This summer, my nephews … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Friendship, History Tagged With: elementary school, lost things found

From Start to Finish by (not Tamera) but Joe Alexander

February 18, 2025 By Tamera Alexander

A year ago, my husband, Joe, felt a strong nudge to begin writing down some of his—and our—family history for our grandchildren, Leo and Ari. As he wrote, he found himself sharing lessons he hopes to one day teach each of them himself, Lord willing. Yet knowing that none of us will be here forever, he was grateful for the opportunity to put pen to paper. Early on, I read his first few … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Books, Faith, Family, History, Inspired by Scripture, Reading Tagged With: From Start to Finish, Joe Alexander, New Releases, Tamera Alexander

Burns Night Supper

February 5, 2025 By D'Ann Mateer

So my husband and I did a thing we never in a million years thought we’d do.  We hosted a dinner party for twenty in our home.  And not just any dinner party, mind you. No, we had a full-on Burns Night Supper!  Do you know what a Burns Night Supper is? Well, let me enlighten you if you don’t!  Every year on January 25, Scots all over the world—and especially in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Friendship, History, House and home Tagged With: Burns supper, Robert Burns, Scotland

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