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My friend Denise Hunter posted this week over at Girls Write Out about things that are priceless to her. Then she challenged all of us to think about the things that are priceless to us. Here’s my list: Family: I’m blessed that my immediate family growing up was much bigger. A husband who loves me, foilables and all Children who …

Here is the November 2007 line-up of new Christian fiction releases! Time to add a few books to your Christmas wish list or find a great gift for a loved one. Also this month, Jill Eileen Smith has a new Spotlight interview with award-winning author Nancy Moser author of the newly released Just Jane. Be sure to stop by and …

So I’ve been working on my list. Here’s the update 🙂 Mosaic by Amy Grant: Finished. Great book! Bygones by Kim Sawyer Vogel. Fantastic book! Once I picked it up I couldn’t put it down. Also read the sequel Beginnings— both in about 48 hours total. I honestly didn’t think I’d enjoy books that deal with the contrast between Mennonite …

The winners of Mosaic are: SusieJennifer AlLeeAndrea Please leave a comment with a way to reach you to this post. I’ll redraw on Monday if necessary. Congratulations to the winners.

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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!

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. …