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A Top Pick Sunday. Color me grateful…
Tomorrow, look for three blog posts (and a newsletter, if you’ve signed up for that list): A second much asked for reader’s guide discussion Contest winners announced for both October and November’s...
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I dwell in possibility…
“All of me will want all of this forever.” She looked up at the clear, nearly night sky already bright with icy stars. Her breath misted in the air, frosting everything with a hint of unbelievability....
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Amazon’s 100 Books… COML a $1.99 Daily Deal!
Shameless plug time. Gratitude time. Christmas on Mimosa Lane has been picked up as a $1.99 Amazon Daily Deal, as part of their December 100 Books promotion, and it’s an amazing thing not just for...
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USA Today Spotlight!
I owe the blog a Publishing Isn’t for Sissies/How We Write update, but it’s a USA Today Spotlight morning. Back soon with more from the “work” side of this beautiful ride we call publishing. But for...
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Publishing Isn’t for Sissies…When the work and creative and “other” sides...
Samantha Perry was all dressed up with someplace to go. Yet it was closer to midnight than dawn in her winter world. Amidst what wouldn’t be a flowering garden for several months, as if a July...
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What does it mean to be safe? Grab hold of your security, BELIEVE it into...
We all grapple with finding our secure place in this world. Some of us are forced to live the reality that NOTHING is guaranteed to us in this life–security, first and foremost–more in our faces than...
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The Soul of the Matter: “I am not a teacher but an awakener…”
The words of Robert Frost have long been a muse for artists. He is one of my literary heroes. His words, even just a few of them, inspire thought and creativity and memory and vision for the future....
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The Soul of the Matter: Balancing Piles of Tribbles…
I’ve just taken a week off. To be honest, I need more time away. Does that sound familiar–the lure of distance and silence and being still? Haven’t we all lost ourselves somewhere like that–nowhere–a...
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“Real” Family… Real sacrifice. What’s that about?
What wouldn’t you sacrifice for the ones you love? What makes family real? Small communities are so beautiful and picturesque…but what’s going on under the surface? When I create and explore...
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The Soul of the Matter: The trees are raining…
You wait, a storm’s chaos beyond your night window. The long summer, an overly-warm fall, cling fiercely. A thunderstorm in October. It feels like forever, as if there will always be more. Steamy...
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The Soul of the Matter: Listening…
New beginnings aren’t just about action. In my case, there’s no real action yet. But I’m definitely beginning again. A new story in the works, a new release to plan for, a new PR team, a new season...
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‘Tis The Season… To feel alone?
“For unloved daughters and sons, the stress of the holidays sweeps in much more than the nuisance of crowded stores, piped-in joys, worries about money or pleasing everyone with the right gift…”...
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What’s a heart made of?
Holidays are for hearts. Whatever we celebrate this time of year, images of families and loved ones and friends and memories surround us. The season lifts us up, makes us homesick, sometimes brings...
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What opens your heart?
Holiday cheer? Holiday giving? Holiday spirit? I want those things mean to me the same as they would any other time of the year. I listed my “heart happy” goals yesterday, for the holiday and beyond,...
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