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No Mystery about Pie
“Everyone has a favourite cake, pastry, pudding or pie from when they were kids.” ~Paul Hollywood Okay, so plenty to you like cherry pie as much as I do. Linda, Connie, Karen, Amy, Susan, Betty, and...
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The Mystery Continues with a New Mystery Picture
“Oh how I’ve missed you, Hidden Springs! That warm feeling when you see a friend that you haven’t seen in a while and just know that you’re going to enjoy your time together. That’s how I felt when I...
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Mysteries, Fun, and Books
Life is a mystery that unfolds its story to each of us in a different way at the right time. (Hermann J. Steinherr) I’m sure you’ve heard people say that life is a mystery. But is it one we are...
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No Mystery about the Winners
“As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only...
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Book Party Time
Back in 2005 when my first Christian novel, Scent of Lilacs, was published, I decided to have a book launch party to celebrate. While that was my fourteenth published novel, it had been several years...
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April Fool Fun a Day Late
This full-disc image of Jupiter was taken on 21 April 2014 with Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). April Fool’s Day Plus One Have you ever spotted the planet Jupiter in the night sky? Jupiter has...
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Q & A Time
My favorite part of any speech is the question and answer time. Sometimes I talk to a curious bunch who are ready with questions and sometimes I don’t. I’ve discovered if I’m visiting a book club and...
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Time for Chickens
Did you ever raise chickens? Maybe you’re one of the many backyard chicken owners right now. I’m not, but when I was a kid we always had chickens. You had to if you lived on a farm. It must have been...
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Questions, We Get Questions
I asked for more questions and got some. Emily came up with varied ones. So here goes. Q 1 – Do you have any funny stories about raising chickens when you were growing up? I could come up with lots of...
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Wildflower Weekend
A busy time here at the farm for Easter weekend. While all the family didn’t get to come, some of them did. My daughter and her husband and their German shepherd went wildflower hunting with me on...
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Growing Up on the Farm
The last couple of weeks I’ve invited you readers to ask questions about my books, writing, or whatever. I answered most of the questions about writing last week on Wednesday. Hop back a couple of...
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Earth Day
The earth is what we all have in common. (Wendell Berry) Earth Day April 22 is the day designated as an unofficial environmental holiday since 1970. And that day was last Saturday. We have days for...
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So How About a Cow Story
All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow. (Grant Wood) I’ve been inviting readers – that’s you – to not be shy and ask me some questions. About writing. About my books....
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The Queen of Cold Blooded Tales
I met Lonnie and Roberta Simpson Brown at a book event many, many years ago. And then at more book events as the years went by. The more I got to talk to them, the more I liked them. That’s the way it...
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Q & A Time Again
An expert knows all the answers – if you ask the right questions. …Levi Strauss I don’t presume to know all the answers because I’m no expert at anything. That might be a fun question to ask yourself....
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Want to Know Why God Made Moms – Ask a Kid
Why did God make Moms? Well, we know all the loving reasons, but how about some practical reasons as figured out by a few kids? This is sort of a rerun of a post from 2008 but that’s so long ago, I...
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Swinging Bridges and Granny Em
I just finished doing the final edits on my upcoming historical novel, These Healing Hills, set in the Appalachian Mountains in 1946 with the background history about the Frontier Nursing Center. My...
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Mom and Me
“But kids don’t stay with you if you do it right. It’s the one job where, the better you are, the more surely you won’t be needed in the long run.” (Barbara Kingsolver, Pigs in Heaven) Today is...
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The End Holds Hands with The Beginning
“The beginning and the end reach out their hands to each other.” (Chinese Proverb) One more time I have written those two oftentimes elusive words. The end. I’m not sure I’ve written the right words...
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Angel Sister – Kate Meets Lorena
“Like a Kentucky summer, Angel Sister starts slow and easy but by the end, roars along, leaving the reader breathless and wanting more.” (Lauraine Snelling, author of the Red River series and Daughters...
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