I’ll admit, after growing up reading Janette Oke’s prairie romances, I didn’t think a fresh perspective on those tales existed. I am delighted to report I was wrong. Waiting for Summer’s Return, Kim Sawyer’s debut novel, shook my preconceptions. From the first page of this delightful book, I journeyed back to 1894 and the windswept plains of Kansas. Sawyer does …
Cheaper to Settle?
A recent article in the Indianapolis Star, It’s Cheaper for Mom and Pop to Settle by Regan Morris (June 5, 2006), pointed out a rising trend in the legal field. Due to the rising costs of litigation, it is often cheaper for small businesses to settle lawsuits than to defend against them. Even when Mom and Pop know they have …
The beginning
All things have a beginning. In the beginning, God carved the world out of a void. My beginning occured when my mom caught my dad’s eye. Life is filled with beginnings. School. Marriage. Family. Career. One beginning morphs into more, followed by something new to take its place. And so this blog has a beginning. This is a place for …