Okay, Here Goes, My Lucky Seven Post…
This is how much I love Kimberly Brock. I am posting some of my novel-in-progress and you are the first ones EVER to read anything from my novel, I swear. Okay, I swear a lot so that doesn’t hold much water. I promise you are my first! (Ha, never thought I would say those words…again.) Keep in mind this 2nd draft material. Which to any non-writers reading this, that means it still sucks and it has a long way to go before it gets not sucky. These are the seven sentences seven lines down from the top of page 77. (Hey, I have a page...
read moreEaster Tears and Saying Goodbye
Easter always gets me. Yesterday, during the OPENING hymn, my eyes welled up. I couldn’t even tell you the damn song but it’s always the music as I look at the altar, draped in white and Easter lilies. During the second verse, one of our pastors and another member of the congregation came from the back of the sanctuary with long poles that swayed in the air with gold and white streamers. Visions of the movie Passion of the Christ always rattle around my brain during the Lenten season and all of the emotion I felt while watching...
read moreBook Review: A GOOD AMERICAN by Alex George
A Good American by Alex George, 387 pgs., published by Amy Einhorn/Putnam Books. Frederick and Jette are two German youth in love in early 20th century. Things happen, ahem, and they find themselves on the outs with Jette’s mother. Worried about what drastic measures her mother might take for the sake of the family’s reputation, Jette urges Frederick to go to America where they can start a new life. They end up making their way into America through New Orleans rather than through New York, which sets the course of their lives...
read moreKansas Has the Top Spot in Basketball’s History
In honor of last night’s NCAA Men’s Championship basketball game and because I live in Kansas, I thought I would enlighten some of you on what Kansas has to do the very beginning of college basketball. James Naismith, a Canadian born in 1861, played a made up game as a child called “duck on a rock” where he attempted to knock a “duck” off the top of a rock by using another rock. He had learned that lobbing a rock with an arc did the job better than a hard straight shot. That ingenuity became part of...
read moreMy Sibling Rivalry With Food, My Guest Post
Good morning everyone! I am over at Writing up an Appetite this morning talking about food and my lifelong rivalry with it. Come by and say hi. Tell us about your own relationship with food; was it healthy, obsessive, supportive, whacked? Read my post at Writing up an Appetite here… Thank you...
read moreThe Winner of BRIDGE OF SCARLET LEAVES Is…
Jennifer Lyn King! Congratulations Jennifer! You are my first overseas winner*! Well, you are probably my ONLY overseas blog follower but still! I feel very worldly being able to send a book to you over the ocean and through the woods to you. If you don’t know Jennifer, check out her stunning blog and website at http://www.jenniferlynking.com. She is living the international dream over in Prague. She paints, she writes, she photographs, she raises three boys, she is tall [sigh], and she is as humble as she is beautiful, inside...
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