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Creativity Friday – #3

How many of you are starting to feel the release that summer brings? Vacations are being planned, kids are excited to be out of school, the weather makes it easier to be anywhere but inside the house. Everything changes! So what have you been working on

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Numbers or Friends – It’s Both

The Bellingwood Facebook page crossed another milestone the other day and so, of course, because I like round numbers, we’re celebrating a little. You know, I can easily get all caught up in numbers. Metrics make the left side of my brain purr. And trust

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Creativity Friday #2

It’s another Friday and time for you to share your talent! Reply in the comments on the Bellingwood Facebook page with a picture of something that you have been working on … no matter the media. Gardening, painting, crochet, knitting, sewing, beadwork, illustration, quilting, needlework,

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Which Character is Your Mom?

One of the most difficult things I’ve dealt with in the last 28 years is that friends and family never had the opportunity to get to know Mom in all of her wild glory. My brother’s wife met her just before she found out she had

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Mother’s Day, Pt. 2

Last year, right about this time, I wrote a post about Mom and in it, I shared an article that she had written on being a minister’s wife. To be honest, what I wrote last year says it all and there are so many new people

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Bellingwood Vignette – 07

Book 10 will be published on June 25, but until then, here’s a little something fun for you. Happy Mother’s Day! This little vignette actually occurs just prior to Book 10. It doesn’t affect anything in the overall story, but is a look at a

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Mother’s Day, Pt. 1

I’ve waited years to tell this story because I wanted to make sure I didn’t embarrass anyone. My sister says the people involved have probably forgotten about it, and besides, I haven’t seen them for a couple of decades anyway (wow, how time flies.) Mom died

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Exercising New Brain Cells

I wish that somewhere along the line, my extremely artistic mother would have spent more time with me helping me to become a better artist. That’s a regret. But she didn’t and at this point, the regret is complete silliness, nothing I can do about

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Post-Writing Randomness

Well, Book 10 is written. The first draft is finished and now comes the hard work … the re-writes. I introduced a character that I don’t particularly need, so he needs to come out. But that’s okay, he’s unimportant in the whole scheme of things.

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May Challenge – Visual Arts

Apparently, I had more to say on this, so yesterday’s blog post wasn’t the last you’ll see from me in a while. This morning, while trying madly to fall back to sleep, my brain was running on high octane for some reason. So, I just

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