Is there anything more romantic than a guest book? Those decorative journals in beach homes, mountain houses and B&Bs that record days and weeks and years of memories, thoughts, vacation highlights, and even drawings by kindred spirits from all over the world who have spent a few days in the places that we love. My grandparents used to own …
Dinnertime Conversation Starters Week 3 – Who’s In Your Guestbook (From Lisa Wingate)
Happy Monday everyone! This week, we’re continuing with our series of Table Talk conversation cards. If you missed the previous cards and want to go back and print them out so you can use them at your family table, or with your book club, or at your next meeting or holiday party, you can get them here: — Conversation Card …
What No One Tells You About an Empty Nest by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
Have I had to choose between a dream and a loved one? Yes, no, and all the time. That’s going to need some explaining, isn’t it? If we’re talking ultimatums from those I love to choose between them or my writing, the answer is no. For starters, my husband could not be more supportive if he tried. He trusts …
Dreams are big with me. Maybe not so much dreams, but destiny. God has a dream and destiny for all of us, but sometimes the roads of life knock the wind out of us, push us back and down, and we forget to dream.We forget God dreams for us.When I started writing with a serious intent to become a published …
Table Talk
We’re in week two of our Table Talk series, discussing questions prompted by our books. Here’s ours for this week: In SUNRISE ON THE BATTERY by Beth Webb Hart, Mary Lynn is climbing Charleston’s social ladder when her husband derails her dreams. Have you ever chosen between your dream and a loved one? I had to think a little harder …
The Intersection of Love and Dreams by Beth Webb Hart
Everyone has a dream or two. Usually, they are tied to an innate gift or a passion. Dreams like these are – I believe – God-given and while they take a lot of hard work to achieve, they bear the sweetest, richest fruit. Other dreams are born out of wounds. If someone had a painful or tragic childhood, they may …
Diary of a Writer: Deadline
Deadline. Deadline. Dead. Line. Working on substantive edits and rewrites for “Once Upon A Prince” coming to you April 2013! Look for the cover soon! It seems no matter how and what I plan, or all my valiant efforts to avoid deadline crunch, I wind up in it anyway. Oy. Power recliner! Keeps me leaning against Jesus. Random Fact: I …
Dinner Time Conversation Starters Week 2 – A Time For Dreams (from Lisa Wingate)
Happy Monday everyone! This week, we’re continuing with our series of Table Talk conversation cards. If you missed last week’s card and want to go back and print it out so you can use it at your family table, or with your book club, or at your next meeting or holiday party, you can click here to get that card. …
Blog Tour: Mackinac Island with Cara Putman and Melanie Dobson
Mackinac Island. It’s a magical place that allows you to step back in time from the moment you first step off the ferry. Authors Cara Putman and Melanie Dobson have teamed up for a tour of the island, now and then. Comment at each stop for a chance to win a copy of one of their books set on Mackinac Island. You’ll find the list …
A Lesson in World Peace and Warring Siblings by Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
World leaders could learn a thing or two from my mama. She had this thing she did whenever she caught her stair-step girls squabbling. The offending parties would have to sit under the kitchen table with our arms around each others’ shoulders as if we would not have much preferred choking the other party down to her knees. We were expected to …