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Turning Life Into Fiction: My Grandpa

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Honoring a Legacy of Love

Today, I'll be at the visitation and tomorrow at the graduation celebration for my 93 year old grandfather who went home to be with the Lord Sunday. It's been a bittersweet couple weeks as we prepared for him to leave us. The man has left an amazing legacy. He and my grandma were married 66 years. They had four children+ 1 in-law, 7 grandchildren + 7 grandchildren-in-laws, and 23

LFY in Glacier Bay, Alaska

My Review: I had the fun of hearing all about Tricia's trip to Glacier Bay to research this book. It was a hoot to hear her talk about Bud's rental cars, the rugged beauty of the place, and how everyone knows everyone. Hearing the details made me hungry to read the book and I wasn't disappointed. All those details and so many more were incorporated into the book causing Glacier Bay to come

Ashton Park Review

This week, the





Christian Fiction Blog Alliance





is introducing





Ashton Park





Harvest House Publishers (January 1, 2013)





by





Murray Pura



If you've become a fan of Downton Abbey (in spite of what happened Sunday night!), and you've wondered if a book existed that captured the same feel of following upstairs and downstairs in a large hall in England, then

4 steps to building solid relationships with extended family

This post is more poignant this morning. My Grandpa died last night after 93 good years on this planet. So grateful for him and his legacy. So glad we made time for extra stops over the years. Missing him though.





Shucking Corn with
Grandma

Ever have times where you think things were much easier 100 years ago? Families lived in close proximity and we didn’t have to raise our kids alone? It’s

Friday Countdown: Three ideas for winter weekends

This photo makes me nostalgic for the days my older two were the ages of my younger two. Ah...if only we had snow like that this year!

The weekend is upon us and one of the challenges when the weather is bitter is what can we do? Here are a few ideas and I'd love to hear yours, too:

1) Grab the heavy weather gear and move. Put all those mittens, hats, and scarves to good use. Find some snow

ACFW Board Meetings!

Today I'm in downtown Indianapolis for ACFW Executive board meetings. We're plotting and strategizing for the future. We're also setting the schedule for the fall national conference. Woot!

The conference is coming up September 13-15 in downtown Indianapolis. I am so excited. We already have editors and agents signing up to attend. This year I will be offering mentor appointments instead of

Review: Escape back to Smitten with Secretly Smitten

Secretly Smitten is written by four of my writing friends. If you've followed my blog at all you know I thoroughly enjoy Colleen Coble's romantic mysteries and I adore Denise Hunter's contemporary romances. With the Smitten novella collections these two authors pair with Diann Hunt and Kristin Billerbeck: both are brilliant, funny writers. With Secretly Smitten, these authors have returned to

Delighting in the Scriptures: Exodus 3:16

This year I have committed to read through the Bible. It's been a few years since I intentionally set out to do that, and so far so good. I've wrapped up Genesis and into Exodus. What's been an absolute joy to me is the way God is causing individual verses tucked in the midst of Scriptures I know well to pop to life. I thought I'd share some of those with you in the coming weeks. Is that all

Classic Hollywood Reviews: Arsenic and Old Lace

I'm neck-high in editing and writing this week, so I'm going to resurrect this post about one of my favorite movies of all time. It's the weekend, and if I weren't writing like mad, this is a movie I'd pop in and watch. My daughter watched it for the first time over Christmas. I LOVED watching her laugh loudly over the antics. It's a classic and Cary Grant is simply WONDERFUL. Insert happy sigh