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The Geranium Story: What's it all about, anyway?

So what's this "Geranium Story" all about, anyway?



 

It's about Lillian Picoletti...
At fifteen, she's become adept at hiding her wretched home-life - at not getting too close to anyone outside her family - at bearing up under the tremendous emotional strain her papa puts on their family. She desperately presses to finish high school and escape the gutter in which she was born.

 

It's

I Love You More Than...

"Many waters cannot quench love,

Nor can the floods drown it.

If a man would give for love

All the wealth of his house,

It would be utterly despised."

Song of Solomon 8:7 {nkjv}





 
 

It really comes down to love in the end.

 

This week, I swept, swept, swept up the stray wisps of pug fur and tracked-in dirt and thought about it -

 

Thought about the particular area of my life in

I'm Looking for a Few Good Women {or Men} - Launch Team!

Would you like to receive my latest book - the "Geranium story" I've been talking about - for FREE... BEFORE it's released?

Does it sound too good to be true?

It's not!


Read on to find out how YOU can be a part of my "LAUNCH TEAM."





HOW DOES A LAUNCH TEAM WORK?

Here's What I Do:

Several weeks before I release my new book, I'll send you a digital copy via e-mail for free. You can choose

"Almost Glad that I Had Sinned:" A Reason for Regret and a Reason for Cheer

On a popular {food} blog I sometimes read, the writer mentioned that she had made many {non-food-related} "mistakes" in her life ... and that she was sorry for none of them. They made her, she claimed, into the person she has become, a person of whom she is very proud.

I blinked at the screen a few times and re-read the paragraph, wanting to ascertain that I'd read that correctly. She was proud

Onward Ho!

With The House of Mercy, I didn't set out with any goal, other than to write a story - a good story, the sort of story that I want to read. "The How" of The House of Mercy is a blog-post for another time, but let it suffice for me to say that I wrote the first sort-of-kind-of draft (though should I even call it that, as it was so different - practically unrecognizable - from the final draft?)

The Midnight Special {A Writing Update}

Folks, as the Justice of the Peace said in that fabulous Little House on the Prairie episode, "This is going to be the midnight special: short and sweet." :-)



{If you haven't seen this episode, I highly recommend it makes it to the top of your to-watch list.}



Did I meet my goal?
Yes! :-) Praise the Lord, I wrote slightly over my word-count goal that I set at the beginning of August ...

Cutting Out the Middle Man

"The child sees things as the Father means him to see them, as he thought of them when he uttered them. For God is not only the Father of the child, but of the childhood that constitutes him a child, therefore the childness is of the divine nature."

-George MacDonald


{The Prayer - William-Adolphe Bouguereau}


I have a 21-month-old niece who lives in the same house as I do. Her name is

I Don't Want a Half-Full Glass

"Do you see the glass as half-empty or half-full?"

"He's a glass-half-full kind of guy."


"She's just so joyful ... She always see the glass as half-full, you know?"

The tired, watery comparison makes me wrinkle my nose.

It irks me, especially since my favorite Winnie-the-Pooh character is Eeyore and one of my favorite Chronicles of Narnia character is Puddleglum the Marshwiggle {who shows

If You Want to Make God Laugh ...

... tell Him your plans. So says the main character in one of my favorite movies, Bella.

This is a true statement. Definitely for me. Perhaps for us all?

I, for one, am nowhere near where I thought I'd be ten years ago.

You know, to a tenacious teenager, life seemed pretty clear-cut: God had placed a desire in my heart for a particular career. Certainly, my path would be free of any

You Asked ... :-) Book Recommendations for Your Young'uns

"Do you know of any good books for {fill in child's name} to read?"



Those of you who are known to be avid readers probably get this question fairly regularly. Nota bene: If you publish a book AND are known as an avid reader, you will get this question CONSTANTLY - by e-mail, by message on Facebook, in person, by word-of-mouth-from-someone-who-knows-someone-who-knows-you.

Personally, I LOVE