Small-Town Christian Romance Author Julie Arduini
Weaving faith, family, and chocolate in stories that feel like home
Finally, the weekend. I think this week went on forever. Sure felt like it. Here’s my Character Confession for the week. I think my confession is why the week felt so long. I’m 41 and there are days I’m absolutely consumed by hopelessness. Sometimes it’s hormonal. Sometimes it’s by my own choice and the consequences.…
Julie’s note: Laura Hodges Poole is a great writer and a fellow ACFW Scribes critique group member. She writes on a subject I know well, people pleasing. When I share my story I talk about how my rock-bottom moment came when I whittled an eggplant at 2am for a perfect Christmas penguin centerpiece no one…
The A2Z meme continues with the letter B. His name even begins with a “B” but I won’t reveal it here for his privacy. But he’s my firstBORN, a BOY, and definitely a miracle BABY. If I listened to man, he wouldn’t even be here. Because of a severe case of PCOS, my doctor was…
Wishing you a wonderful day off if you’re able to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. day today. It’s time for Marriage Monday. Join e-Mom and women from around the world, I suppose, as we blog twice a month about marriage. Today is a prompt for women only where you take the following prompts and…
It’s a new year, time to work on those goals, themes, and for some, resolutions. But for too many, it’s a time to not just look back, but stare and wish for the clock to turn back and stay there. If you’re here today, it isn’t by accident. Every Sunday I share a thought or…
Saturday! I hope it means sleep in day, but it also means I share my Character Confession. Back in September I wrote about “Second verse, same as the first” because I continue to face situations that seem an awful like other things I’ve been through that I didn’t want to endure…