• Home
  • Our Authors
  • Blog
  • Events & Giveaways
  • Privacy Policy

Inspired by Life ... and Fiction

Novelists bound by the pen, sisterhood, & more

Faith, Hope, & Love (and a giveaway)

October 3, 2024 By Karen Witemeyer

This past weekend proved to be a wonderful time of fellowship, learning, and mental and spiritual renewal. Writers need to get out of their offices every now and again, and a writer's conference is a great excuse to do so. Nearly 100 of us gathered in Phoenix for the Faith, Hope, and Love Christian Writers Conference. The picture above was taken on the first night when our very own Dani Pettrey … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Friendship, Writing Tagged With: Renewal, Writing Conferences

A Mustang Tradition

July 4, 2024 By Karen Witemeyer

. Happy 4th of July!!! The holiday for family barbeques and thanking God for the country we live in. Last week, we traveled to the Oklahoma City area to deliver my youngest son to the Air Traffic Control Training Center they have there. Peter will be training to be an in-route ATC for the next three months. It felt a bit like we were dropping him off at college, even though he's already … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Friendship Tagged With: Bookmark Giveaway, Fireworks

A Cotswolds Caper

July 2, 2024 By Tamera Alexander

If you've watched the show All Creatures Great and Small, you've likely been captured by the beauty of the Cotswolds and the Yorkshire Dales in the UK. Joe and I recently returned from ten days in the Cotswolds with some dear friends, and it was a wonderful trip! Here are some glimpses . . . We stayed in Burford and took day trips into the surrounding countryside... Joe and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Friendship, History, Nature Tagged With: Cotswolds, Tamera Alexander, travel

In Memory of Mandisa

May 7, 2024 By Tamera Alexander

This is a post I originally published on August 30, 2011, long before I had the joy of meeting Mandisa in a Bible study we both attended in a friend's home here in Nashville a handful of years ago. As everyone says, she was—and still is—the real deal. I'm heartbroken over her passing, but her openness and transparency encouraged me then, and still does today. I originally entitled this August … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Assorted & Sundry, Faith, Family, Friendship Tagged With: A Lasting Impression, God Steps, Mandisa, Music, Tamera Alexander

Mary Had a Little Lamb . . . and so did I!

May 6, 2024 By Angela Hunt

I don't know if you saw the hilarious picture of lamb cakes that was going around on Facebook . . . This photo makes me laugh every time I look at it. But because I love baking, I decided I had to make a lamb cake this year. Only I wouldn't make it at Easter, but at Passover . . . and I'd bake a cake with no yeast, baking powder, or baking soda, so there would be no leaven. (Pound cake fits … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Family, Friendship, Recipes

  • « Previous Page
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • …
  • 31
  • Next Page »

Search Site

Monthly Archives

Blog Categories

Recent Posts

  • Deb’s Favorites May 25, 2025
  • A First! May 23, 2025
  • Book Recommendations in Time for Summer and a Giveaway May 22, 2025

Disclosure

Disclosure of Material Connection: Some of the links in the pages on this site may be "affiliate links." This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, someone will receive an affiliate commission. We are disclosing this in accordance with the Federal Trade Commission's 16 CFR, Part 255: "Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising."

Copyright © 2025 Inspired by Life & Fiction | Website Design by Robin