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It Was A Sit-In

It was the late 1960s, so there was nothing new about a sit-in. They'd been on the news for a few years. They disgusted most people I...

A Life-Changing Decision by Kathleen Buckley

Have you ever made a life-changing decision? How did it work out?  Many of us are descended from people who were immigrants from...

Things That Remind Me

I'm comfortable with being old. I like having a huge quiver of memories to carry around, that our house is long paid for, that I can...

Chance's Return by Lucy Kubash

What can I say, my heroes have always been cowboys. From the time I first watched the older-timers–Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and the Lone...

What Do You Do When...

You write a whole blog post ... yes, a whole one complete with title, several paragraphs, a funny line or two, and the weekly wrap-up. You're on your way to Canva to create a cool picture to go with the title, paragraphs, and funny lines when you think maybe you should proofread it first. Just because you know you're a terrible typist doesn't mean you shouldn't even try not to be. So you read it and realize you have written 500-and-some words of crap.

So you delete it.

And I don't mean you...

Vision Boards, Vision Words, and Affirmations by Christine Columbus

Do they work?

Do you get anxious, excited, afraid, laugh, or cry when reading fiction or

watch a movie? Things don’t have to be “real” to have a physical or

emotional reaction.

In 2002, I attended a one-day class, “Achieving Your Potential.”

On the first vision board is the graphic from the class.

Based on the research on the brain and its potential done by Herrmann

(HBDI) and others, here is a summary of the amazing ability that we have to

create our lives.

Visions + Passion = Reality

Whe...

Welcome, Lynda Rees

I'm so glad to welcome Lynda Rees here for Writer Monday to talk about her newest releases! She has a giveaway for you, too!

ROCK STARR BABY DADDY

A Flip or Flop Mystery

by Lynda Rees, The Murder Guru

Female rehabber, Charli Owens’ spicy grandmother, Irma, is retired rock singer, Starr Bright of the Terrestrials. Irma’s baby daddy appears at their doorstep, unaware he’s Charli’s grandfather and is accused of homicide. Authorities have their man and fail to search further. Charli and fiancé, ...

Then and Now

When I was a kid, I wanted to be popular. I also wanted to be thin, pretty, and well dressed. I wanted to have enough money to shop at mall stores and I wanted good hair. I wanted to buy bunches of books when the Scholastic orders were sent out from school, go on vacations to faraway places, and sit by the window in the back sometimes instead of in the middle. I wanted to get a leg every time we had chicken instead of just when one of my brothers wasn't home.

I wanted to move away from here, ...

So Long, Joann

In 1968, I needed a white dress to wear under my white graduation gown. Either that, the gown-rental person advised, or just wear a white slip underneath. (We all wore slips then.) However, wearing a slip under a very loose gown seemed all too much like going out in front of a chock-full gymnasium in my underwear. I fought with my mother on it, and I lost. No new white dress that I might never wear again.

So I went to Joann's. I didn't sew all that much then, but I knew how, and I had a patte...

After All These Years by Lucinda Race

Enjoy this small town, later in life, romance by award-winning and bestselling author, Lucinda Race.

A breathtaking story of love, loss, and the extraordinary courage it takes to open your heart a second time.

Arielle Clark thought she had made peace with her solitary life: a successful artist living by the lake with her heart carefully guarded after loss. But when her long-lost first love unexpectedly reappeared in her life following a car accident, everything she thought she knew began to u...