“Matlock has a gift for telling what she calls ‘the secret lives of ordinary people.’”
~Detroit Free Press
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Thirty-One Days of Celebrating–Pass it on!
Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Except for February alone, which has twenty-eight rain or shine, but on leap year, twenty-nine. It is that time again–my birthday month! Abundant life should be given abundant celebration. Certainly one’s birthday is a momentous occasion that is entitled to far more…
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An Abundance of Drought
The U.S. Drought Monitor has us in the Exceptional category. By my best recollection, so far this year we have had less than 4 inches of rain, 1 inch the entire summer. The following photographs are true miracles. He provides rain for the earth; he sends water on the countryside. ~Job 5:10, NIV Prayer for Rain Dear…
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Hoorah for the Red, White, and Blue!
Happy Fourth of July to all! When we got our flag out, it suddenly occurred to me that I am, somewhat, living in reality what my characters lived in my Valentine stories. If any of you have read my novels, you might remember Valentine was ‘flag town USA’, and everyone flew their flags proudly and…
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Water for Writing — My 5 Writing Practices
The past week I read several articles by writers offering their personal rules for writing. I decided to look at my own. I boiled them down to the following 5 practices that are essential to me, behaviors that ‘water’ me as a writer. I have to call them practices, because the word rules gives me…
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Making Peace with my Father
I ran a search for Father’s Day quotes. They are all tributes and warm descriptions of great fathers. You don’t find any that say, “A father slips away every night into the bottle.” Or “Thanks, Dad, for never being there.” Or, “I remember a great gift my father gave me: he passed out on the…
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Garden Bloggers Bloom Day–
We are in severe category of drought here on the Gulf Coast. You can see a map of drought in the US here. A map of global drought here. We have the roses heavily mulched, have only watered twice. The blooms have kept coming, although they whither quickly in the heat. There’s certainly no black…
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