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Susan Gregg Gilmore

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Susan Gregg Gilmore was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1961. Although her artist mother bought her daughter her first easel and box of paints when she was five, it was her fathers love of family storytelling that captured their young daughters attention.

Gregg Gilmore knew at an early age that she wanted to write but was soon drawn to journalism not fiction. While at the University of Virginia, she wrote for the student paper, The Cavalier Daily, and held an internship at the Nashville Banner. But after graduation, her interests shifted to museum work and she took a secretarial position with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.

A year later, she entered graduate school at the University of Texas at Austin where she earned a Maste...more

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Spring Brings Asparagus To The Table

Ah, yes, spring has sprung here in the South. In fact, I think it began springing back in February. But with the dogwoods and redbud in bloom, my cooking always takes on an even lighter touch, and of course I look to one of spring's best and first vegetables, ASPARAGUS.

Rebecca has done it again and come up with a wonderful dish for us all to enjoy.

Asparagus Salad

You Will Need:

2 pounds asparag...

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Books by Susan Gregg Gilmore

Average rating: 3.58 · 2,684 ratings · 686 reviews · 2 distinct works

	Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen 3.56 avg rating — 2,216 ratings — published 2008 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove 3.71 avg rating — 468 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	My rating:

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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Quotes by Susan Gregg Gilmore

“It's a funny thing, how much time we spend planning our lives. We so convince ourselves of what we want to do, that sometimes we don't see what we're meant to do.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

tags: destiny , life , planning

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“I didn't really think Jesus cared what I wore to Cedar Grove Baptist Church, or to see the governor for that matter, considering the fact that in every picture I ever saw of the King of Kings, He was wearing sandals and bundled up in nothing more than a big, baggy robe.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

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“Now I know my father was a certified man of God, but at a fairly young age, I decided that when it came to my destiny, he did not know what he was talking about.”
― Susan Gregg Gilmore, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen

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