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Bellingwood Boxed Set 1 – FREE

April 25 – 29 The Kindle Version of the Boxed set containing the first three books in the Bellingwood series is free right now. “Delightful … charming … captivating … addictive.” Meet Polly Giller, a young woman who comes home to Iowa after living in

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Tell Me the Stories

My Kindergarten Sunday School teacher’s name was Eulalie Bryant. After all these years and multiple churches and towns, I still remember this amazing woman. Every Sunday, she gathered her little class around – Mrs. Bryant on a chair and all of us on the floor

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Welcome, Morning!

We’re all friends here, right? I had all sorts of good intentions yesterday. There is so much to do before the newsletter comes out on Tuesday morning (have you signed up for it yet?). I wanted to hang out with people on the FB page

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Patience … Learned

There was a day when I was young and naive about what to pray for when it came to asking God how to be a better person.  I was a pretty good kid. I didn’t fight with my parents, I didn’t drink or do drugs,

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Happy Easter Weekend

I do my very best work when it comes to avoiding things that break my heart. Stories that make me not just cry, but weep with pain and agony are hard for me. Some might attribute this to a Pollyanna-ish attitude toward life, but truth

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Moving Past Fear to Ship

Seth Godin is one of my inspirational authors. He pulls no punches when he writes. In his book, Linchpin, he addresses one of the biggest problems with moving forward. You have to not only finish whatever it is you are doing, but you have to

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To Clean or Not to Clean … That is the Question.

Okay … confession time. I started writing the Bellingwood series as a diversion from writing papers in my Master’s Degree courses. When I needed to procrastinate, I wrote the story. Rather than clean or do any number of things around here, I soon discovered that

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Moving Forward and the Lizard Brain

Some days you look out and see several different futures in front of you. The first future is normal. You’ve been doing it this way for a long time. Familiar colors and people. It’s quite comfortable; really doesn’t take much more effort than you’re used

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Oh Words, You Vex Me

For the last week I’ve been head down in an online course taught by a Brit. Consequently, the pronunciation of words that ramble around my mind is a bit off-kilter. I may never be able to say some of these words correctly again. I’ve also

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Of Coffee and M&Ms … or

The Care and Feeding of Your Favorite Authors A week ago, this post had an entirely different focus. But then, I was coming off a rather intense period of twelve – fourteen hour days and a book release. I might have been more than a

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