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Join me each Wednesday for this virtual reading experience as I read a selection from Redefined: A Year of Poetry. By the end of the year, I will have read 52 of the 366 poems contained in this collection. I encourage you to subscribe to this blog in order to receive these readings and other […]

Instruction Manuals: When in Doubt

I learned something (actually, more than one thing) last week when I was using the self-clean cycle on my new oven. Replace what no longer works. The first oven in our home functioned nearly twenty years. I cannot say the same for our other major appliances. We have replaced the refrigerator and the dryer twice. […]

Planning: Getting Ahead?

The other day I sent my husband a link about a program to help with plotting a novel. Actually, I was thinking a series of novels. (Slow down! Let’s not get too ahead of myself.) He studied it for a few minutes, but I could tell by his face that he was less-than enthusiastic. “I […]

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Planning: Getting Ahead of Ourselves

As is true for me each Sunday evening–but perhaps more so at the beginning of a new year or the start of each month–I begin planning. Not only do I plan for the week ahead, but I map out my monthly goals. Most of what I plan influences those closest to me because of the […]

Books of the Month: December 7, 2020-January 2, 2021

Here are the titles I read in December. It was a relaxing month of simply reading books for fun. To Darkness and to Death and All Mortal Flesh by Julia Spencer-Fleming: Five Stars. I enjoy the character juxtapose of chief of police, Russ Van Alstyne, and Reverend Clare Fergusson. These are books four and five. […]

25 Years of Christmas Poetry: New Year’s Eve

This is the twenty-fifth poem I have written for my mother’s Christmas card. It marks the end of another year, and one we are unlikely to forget. May we remember Who makes all things new according to His will and for His glory. Behold, I am doing a new thing;     now it springs forth, do […]

Redefined: A Virtual Reading Experience

In case you are wondering, the background noise is one or both of my Labrador Retrievers snoring. My guess is that they will make themselves known throughout these readings in one way or another. I could not have completed this book without Kingsman Editing Services and DRIVEN Digital Services. I highly recommend them for editing, […]

25 Years of Christmas Poetry: Christmas Eve

25 Years of Christmas Poetry: Fourth Sunday of Advent