One thing I have learned in my 70 plus years on this Good Earth is that life is often played out in great contrast between things that make you excited and happy and things that bring great sadness. That was the case last weekend when I spent two great days out in the country with […]
SINCE YOU’VE BEEN GONE Restoring Heritage Series #3 by TARI FARIS Genre: Fiction / Christian / Contemporary Romance Publisher: Revell Date of Publication: September 7, 2021 – 336 pages Scroll down for giveaway! With her vision and his know-how, this thing just might work . . .Leah Williams is back in the quaint
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HOLDING ON LOOSELY by DANA KNOX WRIGHT Genre: Narrative Nonfiction / Memoir / Self Help Publisher: Carpenter’s Son / Clovercroft Publishing Date of Publication: August 24, 2021 * 208 pages Scroll down for giveaway! Helicopter parents. Control freaks. Perfectionists. Intolerants. Over-consumers. Social media junkies. We all fit in there somewhere. Read one woman’s stories of
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ONCE UPON A CAMEL By Kathi Appelt Categories: Middle Grade Fiction / Historical / Friendship / Ages 8-12Publisher: Atheneum / Caitlyn Dlouhy BooksPub Date: September 7, 2021Pages: 336 pages Scroll for the Giveaway! Zada is a camel with a treasure trove of stories to tell. She’s won camel races for the royal Pasha of Smyrna,
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It’s not Wednesday, but any day is a good one for a guest post from Slim Randles. But first this picture, which has nothing to do with the subject of his post, I just thought it was an interesting photo I took the other day. I’ve been coloring again, now that the quilt project is
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My wish for all dads is that this is a great day of relaxation and family fun. Kick back and enjoy it. You deserve the rest and the accolades. I’m missing my father this day, as well as my husband, who was a wonderful father, too. Not perfect. Just human. But both were men of
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Help me welcome Slim Randles as today’s Wednesday’s Guest. The pandemic sure is taking it’s toll on folks, a fact that Janice and Annette can testify to. Sometimes it makes us say the oddest things, and it’s hard to recognize a joke when we can’t see a smile. Before turning the blog over to Slim,
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In addition to the books sent to me for review, I do occasionally get to read just for my own enjoyment, and today, I want to share a bit about a couple I just finished reading. I’ve been lucky to have two in particular that I wholeheartedly recommend for your reading pleasure. First up is
AT CLOSE RANGE: A MEMOIR OF TRAGEDY AND ADVOCACY By Leesa Ross Publisher: Texas Tech University Press Pages: 192 Pub Date: April 15, 2020 Categories: Nonfiction / Memoir / Personal Transformation / Advocacy *** Scroll Down For the Giveaway *** Leesa Ross did not expect to write a book. Neither did she expect the tragedy that
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I think we’re finally seeing the backside of the winter storm that has caused so much havoc across Texas and parts north and east of us. Well, at least here it will warm up within a day or so and the snow and ice will melt. Today, as I write this, most of the power
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