Lily Dale: Mediums and Messages at Spiritualism’s Center
Readers who want to be writers sometimes tell me that they’re at a disadvantage because they’ve never lived anywhere interesting enough to set a book. Where Can I Set My Novel? Aren’t we glad Agatha Christie, who set all her Miss Marple books in St. Mary Mead, a provincial village in England, never thought that…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Conquering Fear
“I learned that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he would conquers that fear.” -Nelson Mandela It’s been a scary week, not only in our world but here at Chautauqua Institution where The Nature of Fear has been the…
Read More23 and Me: Classifying Fictional Characters
While I’m taking time off this summer, I’m also working on my next novel for Mira Books. You might not know I’m working if you watch me. Days pass without my opening my computer. But inside my head, I’m slowly working through what I know and don’t know about the four major characters who will…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: The Joy of Laughter
“A life full of laughter is a life well spent.” -Sophie Scott When we celebrated my husband’s Big Birthday last weekend, the moments I enjoyed most were hearing the laugher of our four children and four grandchildren as everyone shared stories on our porch. The joy of laughter is one of the greatest of blessings…
Read MoreWhen Bloggers Nap
After a busy weekend hosting all my children, spouses and grandchildren, I need to nap more than I need to blog. You’ve all been there, right? So I’ll be back next week. In the meantime. . . ZZZZZZ. . . .
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Happy Couples
As you may know by now, I’m fascinated about what makes good relationships, not just personally but professionally, since I like to write about how people overcome obstacles in their relationships. I ran across an article recently that added to my wisdom, and I wanted to share it with you. Happy Couples Focus On Each…
Read MoreHarry Potter: Do Fictional Characters Impact Our Lives?
Proman (short for Project Manager aka my beloved husband) has a big birthday coming up. You know what I mean, don’t you? One of those birthdays with a zero? Luckily he’s not adverse to flaunting it. To celebrate, all our children are arriving this week, along with their children, and by the weekend our little…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Making a Difference
This is either a frightening message or an exhilarating one. But no matter how it strikes me on any given day, I always know it’s true. We leave a footprint, how large, how small, how welcome, how menacing? It’s up to us. What impact have you had today? What impact would you like to have?…
Read MoreThe Swallow’s Nest and Dr. Seuss
How many of you read Dr. Seuss to your children. Oh, I’m looking at a sea of hands out there. Do you remember Horton Hatches the Egg? Horton, an elephant, is conned into hatching the egg of a lazy bird named Maysie who wants it back many days later when it begins to hatch. Horton,…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: How To Be A Rescuer
“A drowning person doesn’t rescue herself.” -Julie Schumacker Talk about inspiring, did you see the story last week about the family at the Panama City Beach that was carried out by a riptide and were desperately in need of being rescued? Check out this link and be sure to look at the video. Two boys…
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