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Remember: Keep Them In Your Heart

When my mom was diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimer’s 2003 her life drastically changed and so did the dynamics of her family. Every holiday, every important event she handled, invited everyone and had a house full of company. Nothing was ever too hard for her to do for anyone and if it meant driving hours alone in her car to help a sick relative, friend or neighbor she did. My mom was a rare person who put others before herself. Never [...]

May 31, 2011 | Posted in Articles | Read More »

In Defense of Scripture, Reason and Tradition

[1] In defense of Scripture. Un-arguably the Bible as a set of ideas predates the Bible as a written text, no one can argue otherwise, at least not reasonably. BUT – the reason we hold the Bible as “sacred” is because we believe (rightly or wrongly) that it is the best and the most accurate presentation of the Word of God possible (in our corrupted and fallen world). We have no other text: (a) as complete; and as (b) currently used [...]

May 31, 2011 | Posted in Articles,religion | Read More »

A Plea to Self Published Writers

Whether you publish your book in hard back, paperback, or in one of the many eBook formats currently available, unless you take more care, it won’t be long before you become ignored as a writer, or worse, totally forgotten. What do I mean by this? It’s simple, so simple in fact that I’m surprised so many of you seem to totally ignore it! No discerning member of the reading population of this world likes to see a book chock [...]

May 31, 2011 | Posted in Articles,Creativity,Language & Grammar,Publishing,Storytelling | Read More »

Review: The Road

When I picked up Cormac McCarthy’s The Road I didn’t really look at the “#1 National Bestseller” on the cover. Heck, it seems like all the books on the shelf at Wal-Mart say that, or some similar claim. And I didn’t even notice the “Winner of the Pulitzer Prize” blurb beneath the author’s name. I had no idea who Cormac McCarthy was. I’d never even heard of McCarthy. These last years as a stay-at-home mom, I was [...]

May 31, 2011 | Posted in Reviews | Read More »

Review: White Sleeper

Are We Alert and Ready? Can you cheat your way to the top and not get caught? Using another man’s thoughts and work can you make it your own? Agent Ryan Conley was at the bottom of the pole working as an ATF agent. He needed a break to increase his pay scale and get a better position. When one of the agents published a book and left and his cases were dumped on his desk, at first he seemed upset. But, reading through the files Conley [...]

May 30, 2011 | Posted in Reviews | Read More »

Spook – Pizza For Two

My newest spy thriller story about death, destruction and regret. (Of course this story is labeled as fiction. No one would ever believe it was true!) * Foreword * At the end of a great world war in a dilapidated three room house, a little boy peered through the ice covered glass of his bedroom window and counted the boxcars of a passing train. It was, at least to him, a splendid view. The street was narrow, two lanes at best, with [...]

May 30, 2011 | Posted in Excerpt,Fiction,Thriller | Read More »

Excerpt: The Island of Whispers

The Island of Whispers (available here) has been called Watership Down with a difference. The difference is that there are no cuddly rabbits. Just rats. They live on the little island that’s tucked under the world-famous Forth Railway Bridge in Scotland. They’ve been there for centuries. Then a group of them attempts to flee to the mainland. They just happen to go in the middle of the bridge’s centenary celebrations… ~ Chapter [...]

May 30, 2011 | Posted in Excerpt,Fantasy,Fiction,Stories | Read More »

Deep into Reminiscences

Back through the years on a winter day Hand in hand following the walkway Till we reached a picturesque bay We sat so close that we looked as a bouquet We went beyond words as they could not say How deep our love was or how much it might weigh It was our eyes’ job to go through the heart-ways With joy, they announced the beginning of the soiree The dusk almost inhabited the valley The wind veiled the external eye [...]

May 30, 2011 | Posted in Poem | Read More »

Expressing Ourselves Can Be Exciting & Medicinal

Just as Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung knew so long ago, “…language was not always adequate to express what we’re feeling but often, our hands know how to solve a problem with which the intellect struggles in vain.” When it comes to expressing ourselves creatively, there is nothing more exciting than repurposing old books, tools, egg cartons, bottles, light bulbs and clothes pins into starting points for something new and artful. [...]

May 30, 2011 | Posted in Lifestyle,Spirituality,Women's Interest | Read More »