“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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The Week After
My heirloom Christmas Cactus is blooming! The bud looks almost artificial, but that is the real thing, a particular way the camera caught it. This one bloom was open by Christmas, but the plant is covered in swelling pink buds that I expect to open this week. My husband’s Granny gave me the cactus–dug it…
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Claiming Christmas Joy
A friend was talking to me yesterday. She had struggled through an abusive marriage, painful divorce, trying to keep a roof over her head and raise three children. She has health problems, too, and it seemed that for twenty years all she could see were pieces of shattered dreams at her feet. She said something…
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Keeping Joy (and Sanity) in the Holidays
Are you in the thick of things now? I am–baking, finally getting up the tree, ordered online gifts at the last minute! My friend Carolyn kindly shared with me her wise plan to stay healthy, joyful, and sane through the holiday season. We thought we would share it with you. I even printed it out…
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High Praise!
I just have to share this with you. I received this gift from Kathy Lynn Sherburn, who said this photo was her idea of the perfect way to end the day. My thanks to both Kathy Lynn and her Molly, who honored me by posing with my book, At the Corner of Love and Heartache!…
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Tis the Season…to scurry
Congratulations to Billie, who has won the copy of Miracle On I-40! Thank you all for your kind comments about the book. Are you scurrying around, as I am? Yesterday I meant to get some Christmas cards written, but baking a cake to take to a church women’s Christmas party took an inordinate amount of…
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Christmastime is Here! Book Giveaway
Like you did not know. Back on November the first, a reminder popped up on my email for me to begin getting ready for Advent. All those weeks, and when the first day of Advent came yesterday, I had done, well, nothing. Doesn’t matter. I was ready in Spirit. And today turned out to be…
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