My birthday and Fourth of July mini-vacation was going great until I heard the news late Monday night about the mass shooting in Illinois during a Fourth of July parade in the city of Highland Park. Seven people were killed and dozens injured. I almost got whiplash as I went from extreme happiness and joy […]
Normally for the Fourth of July I post something fun and patriotic, but my patriotism is really lagging right now. After a week of stunning Supreme Court decisions taking away women’s rights to their own body, hampering the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to control power plant emissions, reducing the separation of state and church by
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Since I’m still in recovery mode from my shoulder surgery and some complications that popped up – literally as in swollen feet and legs – I’m pulling a post from July 2015. My friend Slim Randles wrote about what the Fourth of July holiday means in this thoughtful essay about parades, flags, and Independence Day.
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IN HONOR’S DEFENSEHanger’s Horsemen, #3byKAREN WITEMEYER Fiction / Christian / Historical / InspirationalPublisher: Bethany House PublishersDate of Publication: June 7, 2022 ** 384 pages Scroll down for Giveaway! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ He’s Faced Countless Perils on the Battlefield, but Nothing so Dangerous as Falling in Love Luke Davenport has been fighting all his life–for respect, for country,
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One of these weeks, months, I’ll get back to a regular working routine. As of today, time on the keyboard is still limited. Some things I can dictate, like work on my book, but I’ve always needed to punch the keys for updating the blog. Goes back to my newspaper days when I wrote columns
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Police in my little city are going down the street ticketing cars that are parked on the grass. Not the grass by the street, mind you, where it could be considered a traffic hazard, but the grass in the people’s own yards. Apparently there is some kind of ordinance here that says a car has
Sending a warm greeting to all my friends and family members who are celebrating the day. It will be a quiet one for me as the two most important men in my life, my father and my husband, are now playing Euchre together in heaven. Being by myself is okay, though, as I’m still in
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***** I’m so excited to see another book coming from one of my favorite authors. Can’t wait to read it. ***** DEADLY KEEPSAKES A Tori Winters MysterybyANITA DICKASON NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! MYSTERYPublisher: Mystic Circle BooksComing July 10, 2022 *** 360 pages ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Scroll down for Giveaway! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The past becomes the future. Secrets that
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Tomorrow it’ll be two weeks since the surgery to repair the rotator cuff in my shoulder. Before the surgery, I was hoping to be doing much better by this point, but I still have quite a bit of recovery to go. I’m sure that has something to do with old bodies and old bones. 🙂
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AMONG THE INNOCENT byMARY ALFORD Fiction / Christian / SuspensePublisher: RevellDate of Publication: June 7, 2022 *** 304 pages Scroll down for Giveaway! When Leah Miller’s entire Amish family was murdered ten years ago, the person believed responsible took his own life. Since then, Leah left the Amish and joined the police force. Now, after
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