Today I’m headed to Mackinac Island for a booksigning Saturday. This week, in anticipation of returning to the island, I read Melanie Dobson’s historical Love Finds You on Mackinac Island. I loved stepping onto the island as it existed in 1894, a nice dovetail to my contemporary A Wedding Transpires on Mackinac Island. Elena Bissette is playing on the stage of the Gilded …
Book Explosion at the Putmans & Giveaway
It’s the end of the week and I’m still coming off jet lag so I thought it was time for one more fun post. Here are the first three books I read. When we got back from Germany, here is one category of things that waited for me. I was like a kid at Christmas! (And you cannot imagine how …
Pleased to Present the Carol Award Finalists for Christian fiction
So excited to bring you this list of Carol Award finalists. I won a long time ago in short historical… and it is always fun to see who makes the list each year. If you’re looking for a summer reading list, here you go. The ones I’ve read (about half) are fantastic! Winners will be announced during ACFW’s annual conference …
Few more photos…Humor me?
As I write this, I have photos on the brain. Since our trip to Germany was a once in a lifetime, I got a new camera. As a result, I have 1800 photos I’m sorting, tagging, and getting ready to do something with. That doesn’t count the ones my husband and kids took. So here are a few. While we’re …
A few photos from Germany
Today we’re jet-lagged and our eight-week adventure is over. I hope you’ll humor me if I share a few photos from last week. These are from a city park in Hannover, Germany, our homebase for the last eight weeks.I was writing a guide to Hannover for GISMA and uncovered more information about a park we’d heard about. The Stadtpark was …
Do You Trust God with Your Secret Dreams
Today I’m going to direct you to an article I wrote for MTL(More to Life), an online magazine. It’ll give you a glimpse into my family’s summer adventure…one that ends as we board the plane for home in the morning. And as you read, consider your secret desires. Is God big enough? Involved enough in your life to make them …
Exercise: I think I can, I think I can
I don’t know about you, but I often have grandiose dreams about the exercise goals I can accomplish. Then reality sets in and I have to acknowledge I am a mother of four – two of whom are small. And I don’t have a gym membership. Even so, physical fitness is important to me. When I don’t find a way …
Celebrating Freedom
Happy Fourth of July! I don’t know about you but every day, I am so grateful to be from the United States. There are things I don’t agree with (Mandatory health care), but I am always thankful that I was born and live in the United States of America. As you celebrate with family, friends and fun, I wanted to …
E-Books: Still not convinced..
Within about a week in May I purchased a refurbished iPad2 and found myself with an iPhone (courtesy of my husband). I dutifully loaded them with the Kindle app and books determined to give reading on them a try. I love to have books with me everywhere, but when I had a Kindle, I really didn’t use it. For some …
Learning New Skills: German Anyone?
Don’t ask me why…but I must have been bored because in January I decided to learn some German. This from the girl who at one time didn’t want to learn any languages then took ten credits of Spanish and twenty credits of French in college…don’t ask! The kids and I have been working on it together. After lots of research …