My friend Crystal Miller tagged me with this question: Quick: What were you doing ten, twenty and thirty years ago? Ten Years ago: It was 1997. I was 23 and had just started my first semester of law school at George Mason Law School. I’d been married almost two years and lived in an apartment in Alexandria, Virginia with my …
Learning Styles
I know they’re important, especially now that I’m teaching my kids at home. It’s right up there with love language. I need to learn how to speak to and teach my kids in a way that is easy for them to grasp. So how do you figure out a child’s learning style? Take me for instance. Okay, so I’m not …
Football: life would be boring without it
Last week was an exciting one in Husker football. On Monday the athletic director was fired (with a nice multi-million dollar severance package to fall back on). On Tuesday, the university announced that Tom Osborne had agreed to come back as interim athletic director — woohoo! He won back to back national football championships in his last two years as …
Interview with Brandilyn Collins
Brandilyn Collins is one of my all time favorite suspense writers. She’s also become a friend through ACFW. As Crimson Eve was hitting bookstores, she graciously agreed to an interview. I hope you enjoy it, and don’t forget to run out and buy the book! It’s fantastic. 1. Crimson Eve is book three in the Kanner Lake series, and it …
Crimson Eve Review
WARNING! Do not pick up this book unless you have time to read it straight through. Brandilyn’s books have never disappointed me, but this one was simply impossible to put down. Even when I figured out one of the plot points with 100 pages left I…COULD…NOT…PUT…THIS…BOOK…DOWN. Crimson Eve is a classic woman in jeopardy story with plenty of twists ala …
It’s HERE!!!!
Canteen Dreams arrived half an hour ago! Isn’t this a great picture of the kids with the book! They are two of my biggest fans, and immediately asked for copies of their own — signed no less. And then they wanted to play book-signing. But the great news is I’m holding the fruit of a lot of labor. And she’s …
Review & Giveaway: Mosaic by Amy Grant
I’ll admit I’ve been a fan of Amy Grant’s since Age to Age was released way back in 1982. I was all of 8 I think. I also still vividly remember the two concerts I went to as a kid, both at the Nebraska State Fair. Awesome! And then while we lived in DC, Eric and I went to one …
I have a website!
Please go check it out at www.caraputman.com. And please let me know what you think. My friend Lisa Tuttle designed it for me and made it an absolutely painless process. I am thrilled with the site, but would love to know what you think. And if you’d like to link to my page, I’d love it! To think my book …
So Small & Baby Boomers
For those times when our focus gets skewed because our visions become so small, here’s a peek at Carrie Underwood’s video… More Videos On another note, Fox News reports that the first baby boomer signed up for social security. The first of 80 some million!
Celebrating the random in life
This has been a weekend of random — and oh, so good things. Eric tackled a couple jobs on our to-do list, and my heart is singing. Our shutters all look the same color! Woohoo! Sometime in the five years we’ve been here, they faded into three different colors. No more! Our house looks fresh, and the shutters look great. …