Happy Monday everyone! Have you recovered from your turkey coma yet? I hope it was a big Thanksgiving where you are. We traveled over the river and through the woods to the mountains of Arkansas, where we gathered the relatives, ate ourselves into oblivion, blew all the diets, and narrowly avoided the eight p.m. black Friday rush at Walmart. While …
Would You Like to Be a Firefly Island Book Ambassador?
Do you love to books? Do you enjoy tweeting about books, sharing through Facebook, putting customer reviews on websites like Amazon.com and Goodreads? My publisher is ramping up to give away 100 early copies of Firefly Island… FREE!If that sounds interesting to you, keep reading below for more information. — What is a book ambassador? Why… someone who spreads the …
Just Enough, More Than Enough, and a Gracious Plenty by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
Let me tell you a story about three men I know… Just Enough, More than Enough, and A Gracious Plenty. Just Enough has a decent paying job but he spends all his time making sure the money doesn’t run out before the month does. Just Enough goes to church but he has a hard time getting there regularly. He tries …
Being Thankful
I’m grateful for… Peanuts, Charlie Brown and the Gang. And oh, for peanuts wrapped in chocolate. For sweets. For ice cream and frozen Snicker bites. For friends Family Songs of praise My little green convertible The squirrels I feed every morning Neighbors who ring my door bell so our dogs can visit Writing Novels Those who read them! Southern Belles. …
A Year of Thankful Thoughts
2012 has been a big year for our family. It’s also been a hectic, no-second-to-spare whirlwind trip around the sun, so it’s nice to pause for a moment and count our many blessings. Let’s take a glance back across the months. January: My daughter turned 14, and my son turned 11. I’ve seen too many loved ones lose children at …
Homeless in the Big Apple (and a Thanksgiving memory) by Beth Webb Hart
Hope you’ll enjoy this true-story vignette. It took place in 1996 and remains one of my favorite autumn and thanksgiving memories. Homeless in the Big Apple When I landed in LaGuardia Airport with two suitcases and an acceptance letter to graduate school, I had no place to call home. My plan to live with a friend had fallen through …
Write for Relief Winners!
A big thank you to everyone who bid for critiques for Write Now Relief! Your generosity added up to $2,300 for the relief efforts for the victims of Superstorm Sandy! Well done and congratulations to all the winners! On this site Jeanne Takenaka and Charity Hawkins were the winner with their last minute bidding war. Thank you gals so much! …
A Writer’s Thanksgiving (from Lisa Wingate)
Happy Monday everyone! Today on the porch at BelleView, Thanksgiving is starting just a little bit early. But it’s never really too early for Thanksgiving, is it? Thanksgiving deserves a month of its own, don’t you think? These days, it’s easy to get so busy with the rush of life that we roll right through this season of gratitudes. Is …
“Making it Fall, Y’all” by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
I’ve had to smile at the common thread that’s been weaving its way through the porch this week. In short, the prevailing wisdom here at SBV suggests that sans the dropping temperatures signaling its arrival elsewhere in the land, southerners have learned to approach fall as more of an attitude. If the calendar says it is fall, then by golly, …
How Can You Tell It’s Fall in Florida? Football!
Maybe one of the reasons I love college football so much is it’s the one indication I have in central, coastal Florida that fall has arrived! The temperatures in September are the same as in July. The temperatures in October mirror June’s. So how can a girl tell it’s fall in Florida.Thinner air. Yep. And football.Saturday’s change for me in the …