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Picture Book Illustrator Spills Secrets and Offers Tips
Hi, friends! My newest picture book releases Monday! Yep. June 1st. Can’t wait! In the meantime, I thought it might be fun for you to meet the illustrator for I Can Talk to God. ORDER YOUR COPIES...
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New Book Release Day
Drum roll please . . . Book #43 for me was released today! ORDER YOUR COPIES NOW Friends, it feels fantastic to be back writing books, sending out e-newsletters, posting on my Facebook Author Page,...
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News and Ways You Can Help Spread the Word
Hello Friends! I have a personal update as well as NEWS about a book giveaway and ways you can help: My cancer surveillance scan last week showed no new tumors! Grateful, relieved, and...
View ArticleThe Good Shepherd is For You
Hi, friends! In my Bible reading, I’m revisiting the book of John in the New Testament. Some mornings when I read it feels like I’m walking side by side with Jesus on dusty roads or sitting on grassy...
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Do you need a writing coach?
You had children. You have grandchildren. You teach children. You’re a favorite aunt or uncle. You know children. Children live in your neighborhood. Writing a children's book is pretty...
View ArticleBook Birthday Sale and Free Resources
Friends, I’m celebrating the one year anniversary of the release of my picture book about prayer, I CAN TALK TO GOD. Prayer is the language that lifts us out of the mire of the mundane and connects us...
View ArticleRevival in Verse
With the reluctance of a nested fledgling testing her wings, I turned the final page in Brown Girl Dreaming. The poetic memoir born of Jacqueline Woodson’s days, her remembering her seeing her...
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Delight, a Dicey Word
Hi, friends! I’m one of those folks who choose a focus word for a new year. Then I sit with it, turn it over and around as if it were dice with magic numbers on it. I had been chatting with God about...
View ArticleWhy I Hang Out with Older Women
Hello, friend. Turns out I grew up surrounded by a treasure trove and I didn’t know it. Grandmothers, aunts, women in the church. Sunday school teachers. Camp counsellors. The youth pastor’s wife....
View ArticleTilda’s Lemon Snowballs
A favorite teatime treat in the Sinclair sisters’ home in Portland, Maine. In Two Brides Too Many, they were snacking on the lemony goodness when Father broke his news and turned their world upside...
View ArticleNell’s Peanut Cabbage Salad
Nell’s Peanut Cabbage Salad It’s time for a picnic in Two Brides Too Many, and Nell is bringing the salad. 1 head of cabbage, chopped fine 3 tablespoons vinegar 2 tablespoons sugar 1 cup of chopped...
View ArticleMiss Hattie’s Lemon Scones
A signature treat at Miss Hattie’s Boarding House in Two Brides Too Many. Ingredients for scones: 2 cups Flour ½ cup cold butter, cut ½ cup heavy whipping cream ¼ cup sugar 2 teaspoons lemon juice 1 ½...
View ArticleMiss Hattie’s Shortbread Cookies
On the trail west in Prairie Song, Miss Hattie received her recipe from Rhoda Kamden, a Scottish woman in the Boone’s Lick Wagon Train Company. Ingredients 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 ½ cups butter,...
View ArticleMiss Hattie’s Vanilla Pound Cake with Berry Sauce
In Twice a Bride, Miss Hattie drew her Cripple Creek friends into a celebration of new beginnings with her vanilla pound cake. Don’t forget her berry sauce. Ingredients for Pound Cake: 3 cups flour 2...
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Do You Need to Feel Sheltered Today?
Friend, if you need to feel cared for, protected, and sheltered today, I have a story and a word of encouragement for you. So far this summer, early mornings (as in 6 am) here in Arizona remain cool...
View Article10 Liberating Soul Care Practices
Hi, Friend! Maybe grab a cup of your favorite. Can we sit for a minute and chat about some resetting soul care practices? I’m not sure you and I can accurately count the various hats we wear on any...
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When Expectations Bite
Hi, Friend. Ever experience the pinch and bite expectations can deliver? Assuming you’re human, I’ll answer for you, yes! We all have. Some of us on a regular basis. Gathering with eight women for a...
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Three Wise Women, Advent Devotions
Hi, Friends! Autumn, my favorite season, is upon us, and the cooler temps and colors displayed on limb and leaf will soon usher in the holidays. Thanksgiving next month, and then on its heels,...
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9 Psalms to Boost Spiritual Stamina on a Sour Day
Raise your hand if you could use spiritual stamina as you face your day. Yep, me too. Sweet and sour sauce on our chicken or pork is one thing. Days drenched in a sour sauce is another. Bad days...
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An Easter Two Books Giveaway
Here we stand–on February’s welcome mat. You may or may not know this but evergreens, various pine trees, populate Arizona. We do host myriad cactus too, however, we also see our share of deciduous...
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