I like this weekend. The one right after Thanksgiving. It’s the beginning of the lovely holiday season and in our household December also includes birthdays. Thanksgiving weekend means the Christmas tree goes up and it’s rivalry weekend in football. Ohio State plays Michigan! So it’s a thrilling as well as tense weekend. But it’s tradition. And traditions are important. We …
Building Things
We’re building things at my house. Hubby decided to increase the backyard deck when arrangements were made for the church staff Christmas party to be at our house. He needed a project. After the addition is complete, we’ll clean and paint the deck. We love our backyard, even though in the summer it’s mosquito invested. I’m upstairs in the turret doing …
Love Covers A Multitude Of Offense
Ten years ago I attended my first local RWA conference. I knew no one! But an agent I’d been emailing with was to be in attendance and I would not miss this chance to meet her. So in one fell swoop, I joined RWA, the local chapter, and plopped down the money for the conference. A pretty big chunk of …
Fall Giveaway from friends and authors Susan May Warren and Rachel Hauck
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Just Where Is The Treasure?
We shortchange God. Not surprising, we’re human, we try to bring Him down to our level. We tend to relegate greater knowledge of Him to “the next life.” And yes, we are going to see a God of Glory we never imagined. But Psalm 31:19-20 hit me today as I was reading: Oh, how great Your goodness, Which You have laid up …
The Way Of God’s Favor
I’m working on a theory here. But I think I can back it up with the Word. See, we have favor when we follow and obey God. For example from Psalm 18:20-21 “The Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness; According to the cleanness of my hands He has recompensed me. For I have kept the ways of the Lord, And have not wickedly departed from …
There’s Always A Way
I started walking home from church today. Which is a bit daring since Noon on an Florida August day can be rather warm. But I was tired and ready to go. Hubby was in a meeting after which he had several details to tie up. He’d be an other 30 minutes. Normally I have wait for him but today I …
Are We Really Innocent?
I started Elie Wiesel’s “Night” a few days ago. I haven’t gotten very far. I read ahead and came across some scenes I’m not sure I want to read in detail. The Nazi’s treatment of prisoners is sickening. Haunting. The images his story, and others like his, create don’t dismiss easily from my mind. Hubby read an account of a …
Writing Process Blog
Serena Chase over at Edgy Inspirational Romance tagged me in her blog hop about the Writing Process so here I am, writing about writing! I did one of these recently but what the heck, let’s do it again. Here’s how it works: the blog hop proposes questions and I answer them. Fair enough? Okay, let’s go. Q: What am I …
Authors At Work
I was tagged by the lovely Dani Pettrey to participate in an author’s blog roll, writers talking about their books, their work space and motivation. Thanks for stopping by and seeing how we do things at the Hauck House. What am I working on? Funny you should ask? I’m finally finishing the rewrites on the third Royal Wedding Book, …