This is going to be a loooooong one, folks! Because to me the words “quarantine” and “social distancing” translate to “guilt-free reading time.” So here goes for March! First, a couple of dense but fascinating history/biography books: My brother-in-law, who lives with my sister and their boys in Kurdistan (Iraq) left this book for me […]
In spite of the hopeful nature of my previous post, in general I am an anxious person. I stress over things way beyond my control. It’s something the Lord and I have been working on for many years. So when Coronavirus hit the level of closures, I had to find a way to keep […]
In my normal Bible reading time I found myself in I Chronicles the other day. I confess, this is one of my least favorite books of the Bible. The whole first half is genealogy and the second half is a recap of everything we just read in Samuel and Kings. But this day, in one […]
I’m on the Inspired by Life … and Fiction blog today. I’ve got a documentary and a book you might want to check out if you enjoy the mysteries of history–as well as a little bit of mystery from my own family history! Come visit me over there!
It’s my day on the Inspired by Life … and Fiction blog today. Come on over and read about the three book to movie adaptations I’ve seen recently and what I thought of them!
This month I tended to go back to authors I know and love. In fact, the only new-to-me authors this month were my non-fiction read, so let’s start there. Bored and Brilliant by Manoush Zomorodi I think this is definitely my most important read this month. This book is based on the Bored and Brilliant […]
We started meeting about a year and a half ago. We knew each other from our home group through church. And we were friends. But each of us also had another connection—a desire to write. And so we began meeting weekly, the three of us, to encourage each other in that endeavor. But six months […]
My friend and fellow author Rachelle Rea Cobb in posting in my place on Inspired by Life … and Fiction. Come read about her and her new historical novel that released a couple of weeks ago!
I never thought I’d be happy living in a place with little or no winter. I’ve always liked the cold. Or rather, liked that I could hole up in my warm house in front of a fire with a warm drink while the cold raged outside. Not that Dallas has bad winters. But it has […]
