Fiction Friday: The Conclusion of Sarah’s Final Letter
Last week I shared the beginning of Sarah’s final letter from my novel Endless Chain. Are you new to Fiction Friday? You can read an explanation plus all the letters by going to “Categories” on the right on this page, clicking on Fiction Friday, and scrolling down to March 21st, which is when these selections began.…
Read MoreThe Top 25 Weirdest Laws in the U.S.
Source: Top-Criminal-Justice-Schools.net I first saw this infographic on Lee Lofland’s The Graveyard Shift, a terrific blog for anyone interested in police work or in writing about it. I met Lee at a Writer’s Police Academy event in Ohio some years ago when I was working on my Ministry is Murder series. Since that time he’s moved the…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Mom & Son Q & A
I discovered StoryCorps.com recently and found many inspirational stories about how people cope with serious illness. StoryCorps collects and records oral interviews, and some, like this one, are put to animation but with the real voices, which I find to be a fascinating technique. This is a very touching conversation between a mom and her…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Sarah’s Final Letter
For the past months on Fiction Friday I’ve shared the historical portion of my novel Endless Chain. The novel is set in contemporary times, but the story hearkens back to an incident in the past, told through letters from Sarah Miller to the man she loves, Amasa Stone, who is in Lynchburg caring for his father. You…
Read MoreThe Write Way: Fifty Shades of Beige
I live in a small housing community in Florida, ungated and maintenance free–which means someone else mows my lawn and trims my hedges. Whatever I choose for my yard must be easy to maintain. Our community is situated beside a state park so we must also abide by their rules when it comes to invasive plants. Within those limits…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Heartwarming Veterans Stories for Memorial Day
In honor of Memorial Day, I want to share these 7 Heartwarming Veterans Stories. They are all incredibly inspiring and hopeful, but my favorite is the one above. Marine Corporal Juan Dominguez lost three limbs in Afghanistan, but he didn’t let that keep him from marrying the woman of his dreams. I love his words…
Read MoreFiction Friday: The Conclusion of Sarah’s Fourth Letter
Last week we began Sarah Miller’s fourth letter to the man she loves, Amasa Miller, from my novel Endless Chain. These letters are the brief historical portion of a novel set mostly in contemporary times. But the events of 1853, as described by Sarah, have their counterpart in the lives of the contemporary characters. Endless…
Read MoreReaching Out To Help, Even When It’s Not Comfortable
Recently CBS News had a particularly thought-provoking story, and I’ve included the video here for you to see. There’s a short commercial at the beginning, but it is short. Three years ago members of a gym in Nashville, Tennessee, began to talk among themselves about the slowly disappearing body of another member, a college student named…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Pay It Forward
I’ve seen several of this kind of videos but they always give me goosebumps. And it’s so true that kindness and generosity is contagious, like a virus for goodness. Don’t you want to do something good for someone else when someone does something good for you? I’m going to look for a chance to pay…
Read MoreFiction Friday: Sarah’s Fourth Letter
Today’s Fiction Friday is the fourth letter dated 1853 that Sarah Miller writes to the man she loves, Amasa Stone, about the events that’s happened on the Miller farm in rural Shenandoah County, Virginia. This letter is written on the same day as the last one, which I featured in two parts beginning two weeks ago.…
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