The view out my window is pretty despondent. Bare trees. Snow. Yesterday the wind took my breath away. After awhile, it gets to me.
I needed a smile, still do.
And I found it.
I’m at Christians Read this week, and I blogged about how to get a smile. Of all things, it comes from Amazon and is a product review.
You have to check it out.
Each year I try to set apart time to raise awareness for Rare Disease Day. This year it is on February 29, cuz that’s rare, and the National Organization for Rare Disorders, NORD, has asked professionals and families to show their stripes. From NORD, “The zebra, with its distinctive stripes, is the official symbol of…
August 2019 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website. Contemporary Romance: The Butterfly Recluse by Therese Heckenkamp — Lila finds solace in her sheltered world by raising butterflies and surrounding herself with their gentle beauty. They’re all she needs—until a motorcycle-riding stranger roars up her…
The Surrender of Life By Ginger Solomon Our society sees surrender as a dirty word. But is it? Imagine for one moment: What if Mary, the mother of Jesus, had been unwilling to surrender her body to the Holy Spirit and give birth to Jesus? Not only would she have deprived the world of…
November 2023 New Releases More in-depth descriptions of these books can be found on the ACFW Fiction Finder website Contemporary Romance: 12 Days of Mandy Reno by Regina Rudd Merrick — Law student Amanda Reno is stuck in her tiny hometown in Kentucky for Christmas and work part-time at the Clementville Café. Her parents are…
A Harvest of Blessings: The Story Behind the Story A Harvest of Blessing was inspired by a real life couple my husband and I met in Pensacola, Florida. Several years ago we were traveling and living in our RV full time. Since my husband is retired army, we generally stayed on military posts in their…
3 Everyday Lessons for an Alzheimer’s Caregiver by Kathleen Brown I discovered Mom had Alzheimer’s during a September trip. September. Its flower is the forget-me-not; its gemstone, the sapphire. Sapphires were once associated with clear thinking. As I began caring for Mom, in the house where I grew up, I hoped the clear thinking part…