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You read a paragraph in my book and it just seems to flow effortlessly across the page. What you don’t see is the work behind it. I may have ripped that paragraph apart several times. Torn out words. Visited thesaurus.com multiple times to find just the right shades of meaning. Rearranged the sentences again and Read more
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Every year at the beginning of Advent I ask the Lord to give me a new point of view for the Christmas story, and every year He faithfully answers. In 2023 my fresh perspective came quite literally by accident. It was the beginning of December and I was getting ready to go somewhere. I was Read more
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(Spoiler Alert: you might not want to read this if you haven’t read Lies and Deception yet!) Personally, I’m not fond of Halloween and don’t really want to do anything to promote it. But I wanted to post about Night Terrors at some point in time and Halloween seems to be a good day to Read more
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In the first week of July, I had just gone through the first of two cataract surgeries and was resting at home with a patch over my right eye when I received the phone call telling me I had breast cancer. The mammogram and ultrasound I had gone through the week before had shown something Read more
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I had been given two characters for a story, the two old hags Unloved and Unwanted. I have always been a writer and I’ve always wanted to write a book. The story began forming in my mind. So I began writing. Originally I imagined a little fairy tale, thinking it would be a short story. Read more
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It all began with Unloved and Unwanted. Or maybe it really began as far back as junior high and high school. Or even further back to before I was even born. Whenever it began, The Rose In The Fire has really been the journey of my lifetime — and very much a God-ordained thing. Sometime Read more
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There are days when I hear the enemy of my soul whispering in tones that cannot be ignored. I hear him accuse, “Failure! You are such a failure!” And then, “You aren’t doing anything good in this world for anybody. Not one single thing – not one single person.” And finally, “Nobody loves you. Nobody Read more
The Rose In The Fire 