A treat for everyone who reads the blog today – two pieces from Slim Randles. Both deal with Spring and the joy of discovering new life in nature. Now is a time for planting and going outside to discover what treasures Spring is bringing us. Enjoy the read. Spring mornings are a lot like Christmas. […]
There is something very beneficial for a writer to go back to older books and do a rewrite. The first benefit is realizing how much you’ve improved as a writer when you start making adjustments and fixing mistakes. There is also a bit of a pat-on-your back feeling to be able to see how much
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So, tRump got us into this war with Iran on falsehoods and is now whining because the NATO countries won’t help him protect the Strait of Hormuz. And his buddy in Israel is bombing the hell out of residential areas of Lebanon, killing civilians much like he did in Gaza. Both world leaders got elected
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As an editor as well as a writer, it’s hard to push those two sides of my brain aside when I read a book for pleasure and/or review. Reading has been a passion of mine since I was a kid and devoured story after story from the local library, or even the Reader’s Digest Condensed
Turning the blog over to Slim Randles today so we can all smile a little and maybe even chuckle at some of the antics of the guys who gather at the Mule Barn Truck Stop on a regular basis. First up is a story about Delbert’s attempt to get Marvin to join the Chamber of
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Please help me welcome Cathy Miller to the blog today. She explains here a little about how and why she started participating in the 3-Day Walk For the Cure, and more importantly why she’s still involved. Last week I reviewed her book, Perfectly Imperfect, which is a memoir of her experiences in the years she’s
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Change of HeartJodi PicoultAstria PublishingReprintISBN-13 : 978-1416565604 *** SYNOPSIS *** One moment June Nealon is happily looking forward to years of love and laughter with her family. The next, she is facing a future as empty as her heart as she waits for a miracle. For Shay Bourne, life has no more surprises, and
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The title of this post will make sense in a minute. I promise. I hope. Please bear with me. The first side of the contrast is based on the fact that after a year of the start of the current administration, I still struggle to make sense of the shit-show that is our government in
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Last weekend I was gut-punched by the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis. That day, like any mother anywhere, I thought of his parents and their terrible grief. Grief is certainly their’s first. I freely acknowledge that. But there is a grief that many of us are feeling as well. If grief was a circle,
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Late last week I was going to do a post about this book I’ve been reading that has just blown me away. It was going to be part of my Friday Reads features, but then, well, life got in the way. I was simply numbed by the murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis and