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Feels Like the First Time by Kimberly Packard. Review and giveaway.

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FEELS LIKE THE FIRST TIMEBy Kimberly Packard Romance / Time-Slip / RomComPublisher: Abalos PublishingPublication Date: 16 June 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS *** Blink and your life’s halfway over. What if that happens literally? College party girl Emily Murray bounces through majors and boys until an ill-advised art major leads her to a rebellious relationship with […]

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The Missing Cherries

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Keeping up with the daily news is like watching an intense tennis match. One could get whiplash with the extreme back and forth in national and world events: The peace deal is on. Oops, the peace deal is off. Bombing has stopped. Oops, rockets are flying again. Gas prices are down a little. Oops, they

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Book Blast -A New Fatherland

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A NEW FATHERLAND: PEACE TREATIES & SHATTERED HOPES BOOK TWO By Natalie Bright & Manuela SchneiderHistorical Fiction/ Immigrant Fiction Publisher: EK-2 PublishingPublication Date: April 30, 2026 *** SYNOPSIS *** Texas, 1840s: Drawn by the promise of land and freedom, German settlers venture into the New World—only to find themselves ensnared in deception, power struggles, and

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Book Review: Up From Hell by Joan Moran

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UP FROM HELLEchoes of the Past: Crimes in Central Texas, Book 1 By Joan MoranCrime ThrillerPublisher: Next ChapterPublication Date: April 7, 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS *** Growing up in Las Vegas, Neil Dixon’s future looked bleak. The son of a drug-addicted mother, he didn’t have a lot of options until a police officer, Sergeant Finch,

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On the Bayou – Review and Giveaway

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ON THE BAYOU By Sean Bridges Suspense, Thriller, Mystery Publisher: The Wild Rose PressPublication Date: 25 May 2026 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ *** SYNOPSIS*** A stake-out at a trafficker way-station ends with Special Agent Jennifer Nash placed on forced leave. Until a government insider offers her a chance at redemption. All she has to do is accompany an

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Fun with Words, Politics, and More

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I thought it would be fun to share some interesting slang words I recently saw on the Word Smarts Website. There are just a few here on the blog, but you can find more on the Word Smarts site, as well as more detailed information about them. “Wicked” is a word common to the northeast,

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Double-Header of Humor from Slim Randles

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Before turning the blog over to Slim so we can smile & relieve some stress over what’s happening domestically & on the world stage, I can’t let all things pass without pointing out a couple of truly absurd items in the news. Sometimes it’s a challenge to pick just two out of the tangled mess,

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Happy Mother’s Day

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Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms and grandmoms and special women in a child’s life. First off, I want to pay tribute to my mother, and send her some virtual roses. The following is a blog post I wrote about her in 2015. Ours was not a storybook relationship for many years, and it’s

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A Reflection

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One of the requirements of Clinical Pastoral Education is writing and leading a meditation that can be used as the prayer to start the class sessions. At least that’s the way it was in the training program I went through in Omaha NE be a hospital chaplain, but requirements may vary from place to place and

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