tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31880510730091494502024-03-13T11:10:46.695-07:00Deborah Deetales My journey writing for, about, and laughing with the LordAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-65797572177990280142017-10-26T17:00:00.000-07:002017-10-26T17:55:56.955-07:00Laughing with the Lord #6<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to Laughing with the Lord #6! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Sometimes I wonder if my purpose in life is to make God chuckle. I do so many
ridiculous things on a regular basis that I’m beginning to feel like a fourth
Stooge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Take this
for instance. I was filling the salt shaker, and this is what it looks like
when you fill it from the bottom and turned upside down, then forget to put your fingers over the holes—a
big ol’ pile of salt. I wondered why it was taking so long to fill that little
bluebird shaker. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn8hGDMgGQk/We_pmbuDa3I/AAAAAAAAqCc/pvbXyGX6i5EPCbabFYU4Kcd4ku5S-SspgCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_6154.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn8hGDMgGQk/We_pmbuDa3I/AAAAAAAAqCc/pvbXyGX6i5EPCbabFYU4Kcd4ku5S-SspgCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_6154.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">I once washed a drinking glass with
a load of laundry. (Don’t judge me. At least </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">one</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> of you has done that at one time or another. Right? Please? Am
I right?) I don’t know how I missed it when I tossed the clothes in the washer,
but I sure didn’t miss it when I was transferring those same clothes into the
dryer. Took me an hour to gather every last sliver (and I </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">do</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> mean sliver). On the bright side, they were the cleanest,
shiniest, and freshest-smelling glass slivers I’ve ever seen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">And
this little kitchen accident occurred when I mistook my plastic salt and pepper
grinders for glass. I baked a cake while they were sitting on the stove. Looks
like something Salvador Dali would create, doesn’t it?<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wdl_UmN4A_Y/We_sgMeHWGI/AAAAAAAAqCo/PVhLh6MZ_LwG1AwzTD9M7RWXyskvWvB7gCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_5626.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wdl_UmN4A_Y/We_sgMeHWGI/AAAAAAAAqCo/PVhLh6MZ_LwG1AwzTD9M7RWXyskvWvB7gCLcBGAs/s200/IMG_5626.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">At
least I give God plenty of reasons to chuckle at the silliness of His daughter.
And for me, that’s a good enough reason to be silly! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Until
the next time…<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-64585239663532078242017-10-24T18:20:00.000-07:002017-10-24T18:20:05.024-07:00Laughing with the Lord #5<h2>
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: normal;">Laughing
with the Lord #5</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Welcome! A
while ago I wrote about my standing in the rain to get pictures of a rainbow on
the way to the school my granddaughter attends, then backing into a parking
spot and stepping into five inches of icy water. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; mso-no-proof: yes;">The view outside Molly's school</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Apparently,
I didn’t learn the first time around. Last week our area experienced its first
snowfall (aside from the snow atop the mountains which has been falling for the
past month). The roads were slick, and I was running late—again. I skidded into
the parking lot and backed into a spot against that same incline. I dashed into
the school, retrieved my granddaughter, and apologized profusely for being five
minutes late. Just as we were about to get into the car, Molly stepped on a slab
of ice, cracking it (five inches down, of course), fell to her knees, and in
the process dragged me down with her. I performed a dandy geriatric tango/hip-hop/boogie
routine and finally pirouetted into a full-fledged body spasm that must have
resembled a cow being electrocuted.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">I think
it’s clear that God wants me to stop backing into parking spots, don’t you?
It’ll be less entertaining for the other parents, but I must do what He wants
me to do, even if it means depriving Him of a huge belly laugh once in a
while.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-23235675164865724892017-10-16T20:13:00.000-07:002017-10-18T14:09:54.133-07:00Laughing with the Lord #4Welcome to #4 of Laughing with the Lord!<br />
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Wondering what makes God smile has long been a burning question for me. I know He smiles and laughs because He gave us the same abilities and imbued each of us with a sense of humor. Why wouldn't He join us?<br />
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<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XnLkJw4x8KA/WeVtFfe-O4I/AAAAAAAAqBQ/2wDvSSoEKDIVbddOZfn38A_U3DQoah7QQCLcBGAs/s1600/IMG_4150.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XnLkJw4x8KA/WeVtFfe-O4I/AAAAAAAAqBQ/2wDvSSoEKDIVbddOZfn38A_U3DQoah7QQCLcBGAs/s320/IMG_4150.JPG" width="320" /></a>When I raised my children I was too busy and tired to even wonder about it. But now that I'm older, wiser, and the grandmother of one lovely granddaughter and five handsome grandsons, I've witnessed time and again many things that surely make our Lord smile. Here are a few:<br />
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1.) I'm convinced God smiles when His children appreciate the beauty of the world He created for us.<br />
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2.) When Dustin, my oldest grandchild, was just a little guy--maybe a year old or so--we were at a restaurant and my daughter put a lemon slice up to his lips. He obliged her and chomped down. You can imagine the look on his face as he, for the first time in his young life, experienced what is probably the sourest taste on earth. We, of course, being the loving people we are, laughed until our sides ached. Hunter, her second child came along a short while later. Dennae did it again, and while Hunter shuddered at the first taste, he loved it! From then on, we made sure to ask for a slice of lemon with our water so Hunter could munch to his heart's content. Surely God smiled at the reactions of both boys. The Lord knows lemons are sour, and sooner or later everyone has to take that first taste. Nobody was hurt, nobody cried, and we were able to witness those precious first experiences.<br />
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3.) ... when He watches little boys (or girls) pick dandelions-gone-to-seed and then blow their seeds all over the place ensuring their existence the following spring (and keeping Round-Up in business).<br />
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4.) He loves it every time a child brings Mom that inevitable bouquet of the bright yellow flowers, and sees that both mom and child are as pleased as if it were a bunch of the most expensive orchids. <br />
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5.) I believe He smiles each time children find such pleasure playing in the same material He used to create Man.<br />
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6.) I believe our Father grins each time he sees a child experience snow for the first time, watches the wonder on his or her face as they feel how cold it is and how it covers everything, making their yard and neighborhood a magical world of white. If they're lucky, it's good packing snow, and they can make snowmen, igloos, snow forts and snowballs. Surely God is pleased.<br />
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And if He sees you standing on a glacier, thrilled to have made the hike and to have conquered the vast pile of snow and ice, He chuckles.<br />
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Until the next time ...<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-45964843826349141552017-10-12T11:14:00.000-07:002017-10-12T11:14:36.808-07:00Laughing with the Lord #3Welcome to Laughing with the Lord #3!<br />
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Every one of us has had experience with children who bring us to tears with laughter by their innocence and utter lack of guile. Here are some examples of the way I think little ones bring a big smile to God's Face.<br />
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1. Many moons ago when my children were about 6, 7, and 8, a co-worker and I took a trip one evening to the Grand Rapids International Airport in Michigan to view the landing of Air Force One with President Jimmy Carter aboard. I nearly missed the whole event as it was raining so hard and the crowd was so huge I barely noticed the plane landing or the president disembarking. Nevertheless, the next morning I was eager to tell my little ones about Mommy's great presidential experience. I tried to build up the excitement by asking them who they thought I'd seen. Their guesses were typical of kids that age and nowhere near correct. Eventually I took pity on them and said, "I saw ... the ... president ... of the ... United States." Darice, the 7-year-old looked up at me, milk from her bowl of Cheerios dripping from her gaping mouth, and summoning all her presidential expertise, said, "You saw ... <i>George Washington</i>?"<br />
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2. One of my children's favorite quotes was one used in the fairy tale, <i>Jack and the Beanstalk. </i>They were close, but not quite accurate. "Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an English muffin."<br />
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3. I was a single mom back then and money was scarce. One of their favorite things to eat, though, was something I could afford (and coincidentally, something they recognized from another children's story). I called it fruit cocktail; they called it fruit cottontail.<br />
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4. This one is embarrassing. You know you have morning breath when your three-year-old grandson sits on your lap early one day, and while you cuddle him, he sniffs the air and says, "I smell poop."<br />
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I can see God chuckling at the beauty of His little ones' innocence. How about you?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-81813254652601864652017-10-09T00:30:00.000-07:002017-10-09T00:30:28.214-07:00Laughing with the Lord #2Here's a random list of things I think make our Heavenly Father smile, chuckle, or laugh out loud:<br />
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<li>the look on a baby's face when he/she sneezes</li>
<li>the many ways a baby can find to smear food all over his/her face and still manage to get chubby</li>
<li>Molly's idea of playing hide and seek</li>
<li>a porcupine's face</li>
<li>a flotilla of sunbathing sea lions</li>
<li>a butterfly hiding in a profusion of flowers</li>
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How about you? What do you think makes Him smile? </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-48105235364943102452017-10-05T00:30:00.000-07:002017-10-05T00:30:10.587-07:00Laughing with the Lord #1<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome to my entirely new and twice-weekly <i>Laughing with the Lord</i> post! Maybe some of you know that <i>Laughing with the Lord </i>is my brand for the books I write, and I thought it was high time I shared some of the things (aside from what I write in my books) that I think makes our Lord and Savior smile, chuckle, or laugh out loud. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As I state on my website by the same name, I firmly believe the Lord has seen fit to give us all the beauty, glory, and awesome diversity of His creation for our pleasure and survival. As if that weren't enough, He also gave us (among countless other gifts and abilities) a sense of humor with which to appreciate those aspects of human behavior we can't quite explain any other way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To that end, let me give you today's example. I pick up my granddaughter, Molly, from kindergarten each afternoon, and today I was running late. As I dashed out the door and backed the car out of the garage, I noticed that the sun was trying to break through the ever-present (at least for the past few weeks) rainclouds. I knew there would be a rainbow closely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sure enough, as I rounded the corner to the road on which the school is situated, there it was behind me in all its stunning glory. I rolled to a stop at the side of the road, jumped out with my phone, and got thoroughly soaked as I took pictures of this glorious spectacle. Of course, that put me even further behind, and as I skidded into the parking lot of the school and backed into a parking space against a grassy incline, I failed to notice I'd parked in six inches of icy water--until I stepped smack-dab into it. By that time it was too late, so I plowed through trying to look as though I'd planned the whole thing--the running behind, the wet hair, the soaked shoes and socks. Yep, all planned to perfection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I'm pretty sure I heard God chuckle. But aside from the joy it gives me to think I made God happy, it was worth all the sogginess to gaze at His covenant with His children. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Until tomorrow ... </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-50139250699800010482017-10-02T19:16:00.000-07:002017-10-02T19:16:22.088-07:0012 Points to Consider Before Becoming a Writer<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: 1.5in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-list: l0 level3 lfo1; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: 83.0pt 1.5in; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -1.5in;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">At some point in our lives, or maybe at several
points, we're faced with deciding what direction we want to take with our
profession or if we're ready to take on a second livelihood. We might be tied
into a particular job for multiple reasons--great pay, pension, healthcare--and
those are all legitimate reasons to stay. And if that job takes twenty hours of
your day, each and every day of the week, perhaps you shouldn't be thinking
about moving into another career, or side job, or hobby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But if it doesn't or if you're considering a
change in career, and if you feel the tug to be a writer, now or sometime in
the future when the kids are grown, you're retired, or you just feel you have
the time, then think about some of the following points to see if you're suited
for the writer's life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">1. If you think nothing of carrying
on a conversation with the people in your head, you might be a writer. If you
find yourself eavesdropping on those same people in your head, even if <i>you're</i>
not conversing with them, you <i>certainly</i> could be a writer. While it
might sound silly, it's a common practice for writers to rehearse scenes in our
heads as we test dialogue, see how characters interact with one another, or just
plot out a certain part of the book. It's as natural to us as practicing the
piano is to a pianist. I imagine they sometimes rehearse in their heads; we're
no different.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">2. If watching people around you,
checking out their mannerisms, how they stand, sit, walk, converse with others,
how they discipline their children or talk to their spouse or friends, is
comfortable and natural for you, you could be a writer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Smooth sailing toward my goal of successful author! Wait... <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">to make: author-otter. Yep. </span></div>
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<o:p><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">3. If you see someone and think to yourself, "What a great so and so (name of character in your manuscript/short story he/she would be!" then you could be a writer. Ditto if you run home and write down his/her description for future reference.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> </span></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">4. If everyday events trigger ideas
for a story, then you might consider becoming a writer. If you can't get
through a day without coming up with story ideas, you could very <i>well</i>
become a writer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">6. If you find yourself taking
notes (physically or mentally) while reading a book, you might have the stuff
to be a writer. And if you find yourself correcting someone's grammar,
punctuation, or other aspects of a book, you should think about being a writer
(or even an editor).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">7. If you don't mind working by
yourself for sizable chunks of time, you could be a writer. Yes, writing is a
far less solitary endeavor than it was even twenty years ago, but for the most
part the actual writing--sitting down at the computer and pounding out
words--should be done while you're alone or with very quiet people... except
for #8, that is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">8. On the other hand, if you can
concentrate well with chaos all around you--kids, pets, spouse, television,
maybe the neighbor's kids--you could also be a writer. It depends on how much
noise and distraction you can filter out while thinking clearly and actually
writing something worthwhile. I spent many an evening writing my first
manuscript with the ruckus of three teenagers all around me. In fact, for a
while there it was difficult for me to write when it was quiet. I needed the
background noise.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">9. If you don't mind starting at
the bottom of the heap and working your way upward, paying your dues, working
hard and taking direction, accepting constructive criticism (mean-spirited
criticism should never be accepted), constantly straining forward to learn
more, write more, accept rejection (because it will come), read, read, and read
some more, and write every chance you have to get better and better at your
craft, you might just have what it takes to be a writer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">10. If you have a natural talent
for writing, you should definitely consider becoming a writer. If you don't
seem to have an innate ability, try taking some college courses to see if it
can be drawn out of you or if you even enjoy it. A lot of writing, at least in
my experience, seems to be intuitive. If you feel you have the ability to
honestly view your writing as either good and in need of more work (and all
writers, successful or not, have to keep learning and striving to become
better), or hopeless and no amount of work will change that fact, it will take
you a long way to making the final decision. A lot of what makes a good writer
can be learned. Some of it cannot.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">11. If you can live with the fact
that you probably won't be the next J.K. Rowling or John Grisham, you could be
a writer. If you're bound and determined to hit the bestseller lists first time
out you're either deluded, optimistic, incredibly driven, or ... right. You
just might be right! Just because most of us won't reach the pinnacle of the
bestseller lists on a regular basis doesn't mean you won't. Perhaps you'll be
that one in a million. If you can accept those odds, go for it! (And that's not
to denigrate those who won't reach the top of the heap. There's only so much
room up there or else we'd all be there and there'd be nobody below us to keep
those mid-lists warm.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">12. If you think writing a book
will make you rich and that's the reason you're doing it, you're fooling
yourself and should probably drop the idea of being a writer. If, on the other
hand, you want to write whether you make a dime or not, if you can't help
yourself from writing, then you have what it takes to be a writer. A few of us
get rich. Many of us write and eventually get published. Some of us, rich or
not, make a mark on our fellow human beings. Frankly, as much as I'd enjoy
making more money writing books than I do, I'd opt for influencing fellow human
beings in a positive way any day of the week. If you can live with the idea
that you might not make enough money in a year to pay for your internet access,
but you have readers who love your work and tell you what a difference you've
made in their lives, well, you're definitely writer material.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-84411712703554535892017-09-08T17:41:00.000-07:002017-09-08T17:41:00.400-07:00Help! I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up! (Or something like that.)
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Here are Molly and Darice in a much more comfortable
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</v:shape><![endif]--><!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We were living on Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage,
Alaska. Darice’s husband was an Air Force firefighter and worked twenty-four
hours on, followed by twenty-four hours off. He was at work defending his
country that night, the big chicken, so that left the following cast members: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">My
daughter, Darice (still fresh [and tender] from a C-section)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">My
granddaughter, Molly (the reason for the C-section)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Me,
(the old mom and grandma)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our
black lab, Maestro<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Four
cats—Scully, Graham, Deucy, and Maple<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our
rabbit, Birch, and <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">a
handful of hermit crabs. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">You’ll
need a little background on our pets. Scully, a gray tabby, had household
seniority and as such, scorned everyone else in the house (me included). Her
mother, Darice, was the only one she listened to. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maestro was next. She usually
kowtowed to Scully, but had little patience with the riff-raff that followed
her own arrival to the household. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Deucy, our black cat, was Darice’s cat from
long before she married Ron and had actually lived with Darice the longest. She
joined our blended household when I did. Deucy was pretty much out of it as far as
hearing anything or doing much besides sleeping. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Maple, a beautiful calico
kitty, was my kitty and joined our family a few years before when we lived in
Mississippi. Maple was (and still is) the quintessential scaredy cat. I once
dropped a candy wrapper on the floor, and we didn’t see her for four days. We
found a new rug for the kitchen, and Maple jumped four feet from the dining
room carpet to the tile beyond the rug for the rest of the time we lived there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The rabbit, Birch, lived in his own little habitat, and had a fairly good
relationship with everyone else, but hated noise. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">The hermit crabs were
incredibly quiet, but ugly as all get-out when naked. </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">Don’t ever look at a naked hermit crab. </i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14pt;">They’re bad enough in their
shell; without it they’re just pitiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Then
there’s Graham. We found Graham in a drainage ditch on base. It was springtime
and the bears were out from their winter hibernation and hungry. If we hadn’t
brought him home, he’d have made a tasty treat for one of the black bears that
wandered around base. Trouble is, we had no idea of Graham’s history. He
appeared to be a loving, sweet little gray tabby, much like Scully (without the
loving and sweet part), and we had to learn about his idiosyncrasies as life
went on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
lived in base housing, and this particular house had the kitchen toward the
back of the house, and two bedrooms and a bath upstairs. The stairway from
upstairs spilled out into a front hallway that also housed a half-bath and
entrance to the living room and dining room through which you had to pass to
get to the kitchen and bonus room in the back of the house. Now about the
half-bath: you know how Barbie has that motorhome? Yeah, the pink one. Remember
that little bathroom in the back? Take the actual size of Barbie’s bathroom--you know, that area about 3" by 3"--cut it in half, fill it with cold, hard, head-breaking porcelain stuff, and
you’ve got an idea what our half bath was like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Anyway,
that night I was in the kitchen when I heard a never-ending shriek followed by
baby wails. I dashed from the kitchen, took a left at the dining room for the
straightaway through the living room, and just as I was in the left turn to get
to the finish line, Maestro, the black lab, slammed into me. I fell to the
floor and rolled around like a bowling ball. In the meantime, Darice is still
hollering, the baby is screaming, and I’m trying to figure out what happened.
“What’s wrong?” “Are you hurt?” “Is Molly hurt?” and on and on in that vein.
Darice stopped hollering long enough to holler at me and said (at the top of
her lungs), “I fell down the stairs!” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">“What?”
(More out of incredulity than not hearing her, although Molly’s squalling and
Maestro’s barking weren’t helping any.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Darice
answered, “I. FELL. DOWN. THE. STAIRS!” (What I didn’t hear, but what I suspect
she was trying to tell me was, “You moron. I’m at the base of the stairs with
Molly in my arms. She’s screaming. I’m screaming. What do you <i>think</i> happened? And quit rolling around
on the floor like a bowling ball.”)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Okay,
now we’re getting somewhere. Apparently, she fell down the stairs, and took
Molly with her. Not the best plan, but nevertheless, that’s what happened. I
stumbled upward with Maestro hopping around like a jack rabbit in front of me,
regained my balance, and started toward Darice. She was clutching Molly close
to her, who, aside from yelling her head off, looked perfectly fine. Just as I
was about to reach them, Graham took it upon himself to settle the dog down by
jumping up onto her back, claws extended, to … you know, kill her. Okay, we
discovered our first idiosyncrasy. Graham doesn’t like it when people scream.
Go figure. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
attack wasn’t looked upon kindly by Maestro, who started to howl and buck like
a bronco. I was afraid they were going to jump on Molly, so I took the humane
and thoughtful pet owner path and stuffed them both into the half-bath, not
easy considering its size and their fury, slammed the door, and let them sort it out themselves.
There was blood—lots of it—on me, on Maestro, on Scully. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Darice
(who is now a licensed vet tech, but has always loved animals) was horrified.
She knew that when cats get into that “kill” mode, it literally means they will
fight to the death with the first breathing thing they happen upon. Maestro was
the unlucky thing in her path. We still don’t know who would’ve lived and who
would’ve died, but Darice didn’t wait to let them figure it out themselves. I
took Molly, and Darice went into half of Barbie’s half-bath, and pried them
apart. Once she tore Graham off Maestro’s back, she tossed him into the laundry
room (directly at the base of the stairs), slammed the door shut, and ran back
to inspect Maestro. She had puncture wounds, but they weren’t fatal, and she
was able to wash and disinfect them. We let Graham stew a while in the laundry
room. When we finally released him, he meandered out, meowed for food, rubbed
against my leg (and did <i>not</i> apologize
to me or Darice for our multiple cat gashes), with nary a thought of killing
anyone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Maestro
visited the vet the next day for a shot of antibiotic. We didn’t see Maple for
a week, an Birch the rabbit thumped his back legs in displeasure throughout the
following day. Deucy, being deaf, had missed it all, and Scully didn’t lower
herself enough to have an opinion one way or the other on the behavior of the
peons that shared the house with her (animals and humans). The hermit crabs survived,
although all but one have since died. We’re not sure just how much the trauma
of that night contributed to their eventual demise. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Molly
didn’t have a scratch on her, and survived her first tumble down the stairs
beautifully. Darice, though covered in cat scratches, horrified at what
happened, and suffering from a nearly-opened-up C-section scar, also survived.
Maestro never held it against Graham, who seems to have completely forgotten
his appalling behavior. That leaves me. I’m fine, although I’ve noticed I tend
to fall down and roll around like a bowling ball more than I used to. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-76299087727545495352017-08-10T13:28:00.000-07:002017-08-10T13:28:44.277-07:00 Pizza Party Was a Real Gas<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">It’s
been almost a month now, and I still haven’t figured out why we’re not dead. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">My
daughter’s a licensed vet tech, so when she was asked to stay after hours for a
surgery, she said yes. This was the first time they’d ever asked, and frankly,
I don’t know how often it happens. But it happened that night. Darice works
four 10-hour days per week, so she’s gone from the house from about 7:15 AM (or
earlier) to round 7:30 PM on those four days. On this evening, she arrived home
about 10:00 PM. Her friends at the clinic invited her to join them for a bite
of food and a beer (craft beer is big up here in Alaska), but she was tired,
and knew she’d been gone far longer from home than she normally is. She missed
Molly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">While
Darice was in surgery, Molly and I prepared our pizza party. We put my
gluten-free pizza in the oven after loading it down with extra pepperoni, and
after about twenty minutes it was done. I pulled it out of the oven, switched
the oven to off (I’m ultra-careful about things like that, particularly since
this is a gas stove), and we sat down to a movie (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Clifford the Big Red Dog</i>) and ate. Not once did Molly enter the
kitchen. That’s important to remember. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Since
Molly had slept in that day, and because it was a Friday night, Molly and I
were both awake when Darice walked in the front door. The first thing she said
was, “How come I smell gas?” I answered, “What gas?” and it was on. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">She
couldn’t believe I couldn’t smell it, and I couldn’t believe she could. I
walked out on the front porch, took a breath of fresh air, and walked in. She
was right. The house was full of the smell of natural gas. What’s the matter
with my nose? Why weren’t Molly and I complaining of headaches and nausea? Why
were we still conscious?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Now
this is where we got crazy. In our attempts to figure out what was wrong, I
took Darice to the stove and turned on all four burners to show her the pilot
was lit. That shows how smart <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I </i>am. I
showed her that the knob for the oven was turned to “off,” just as it had been
the last time I was in the kitchen. She called Codie, a friend who lives nearby,
who urged her to call the fire department. She did. Darice ran to the
landlord’s house, which is connected to ours, to tell them their tenants were
in the middle of trying to blow up the entire duplex so they might want to
evacuate. They did. Codie arrived, and before the fire department got there,
Darice and Codie tried lighting the oven pilot. That shows how smart <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">they </i>are. They heard it “whoosh!” and
knew they had it relit—or assumed so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">It
was time to evacuate. Molly needed shoes and a jacket, so I ran to her room,
switched on the closet light (another no-no), found what I needed, and we
headed out the front door. We stood around for a couple of minutes until we
heard the sirens. They pulled up—two huge trucks, the EMT truck, and the
chief’s car. Firefighters in full battle gear spilled everywhere. And there I
was: chic as ever in my jammies, robe, and slippers, while Darice looked at
least presentable in her scrubs. Not surprisingly, the chief chose to
communicate with Darice. I think my jammies were too distracting for him to do
his job correctly. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Somebody
checked the gas levels with a device of some sort (I need to get me one of
those things), and then one at a time the firefighters entered the house, gas
mask and all, for five minutes each. One came out and another one went in.
Finally, the chief went over to Darice, explained that the gas levels were off
the charts, and that we needed to get away from the house. We couldn’t sit in
our car in the driveway for fear of an explosion, but down the road to the
corner and across the highway was deemed safe enough. We traipsed down to the
corner and across the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">It
started to rain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">So,
there we stood at the side of the road, getting wetter by the minute, when a
kind neighbor from farther down the road and up a steep hill came to check on
us. She trudged back to her house (a good quarter mile away) and brought back
coats. Then she walked back and returned with folding chairs and bug spray. She
offered refreshments. She did everything but go over and help the firefighters.
Just as she was returning from yet another trip up and down that hill she lives
on, the paramedic invited us into the EMT truck. Poor lady did all that for
nothing. (We thanked her profusely the next day.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">When
the fire chief felt it was safe enough for us to return to the general vicinity
of the house, he came to the EMT truck and explained to Darice that the levels
of natural gas in the house were lethal. They’d opened every window in the
house and used fans outdoors to blow the gas out. Darice asked what would have
happened if we’d gone to bed and she’d stayed out late. He said she would’ve
more than likely found us dead. Yikes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">And
then he did what Darice, Codie, and I had been dreading. He looked at us and
said, “I want to know who lit the match.” He’d seen it on the counter beside
the stove with the box of matches all waiting their individual turns at blowing
us to kingdom come. The look on his face when Darice told him what she and
Codie had done was priceless. He said the simple act of flicking a light switch
(gulp) could have triggered an explosion. I’m sure our pictures are somewhere
on that firehouse wall with a “Stupidest Dummies in Alaska” caption beneath
them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">The
fire chief requested that a representative from Enstar, our gas company, pay us
an emergency visit. He arrived and checked every inch of the house and every
gas appliance we had. Nothing was wrong, he said. We told him about Darice and
Codie’s ill-advised relighting of the oven pilot, and although he was nice, he
didn’t seem to think the reason for the gas was a blown-out pilot light. What
was the reason then? I <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">know </i>the oven
was turned off, Molly didn’t go into the kitchen and accidentally nudge it to
“on,” and I know that for certain because I was afraid she’d burn herself on
the pizza pan and forbade her entrance. She sat on the couch like a good little
kid about to blow sky-high. Darice and Codie both heard the pilot relight, but
despite their best attempts to convince him, they couldn’t. It’s our
non-provable opinion that somehow the oven pilot blew out when I turned the
oven off. How and why that would happen is unknown; besides the professionals
disagree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QH7wUIOZTNM/WYzAY3MpRrI/AAAAAAAAp_s/PDU4FYPmLUUckPSS9iyzFeOOlFTZHbYqwCK4BGAYYCw/s1600/IMG_5825.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-QH7wUIOZTNM/WYzAY3MpRrI/AAAAAAAAp_s/PDU4FYPmLUUckPSS9iyzFeOOlFTZHbYqwCK4BGAYYCw/s320/IMG_5825.jpg" width="240" /></a><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">So
here we are, stuck with a mystery. We won’t use the oven because we’re afraid
of the same thing happening, and since I can’t smell the darned stuff I’m
afraid I’ll start the whole debacle over again. I miss baking things. I miss
not being worried about exploding when I light a candle. I miss going to bed
and not worrying about not waking up the next morning. Darice does the same. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">What
we <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">are </i>grateful for, though, is the
fact that Darice was asked to work late because she arrived home later than
usual after the gas had had enough time to fill the house and arouse her
suspicions. If she’d been home at the normal time and we’d gone to bed at our usual
time, perhaps all three of us would’ve succumbed to it. Darice reminds me she’d
have smelled it, but the fire chief said I probably grew accustomed to the
smell gradually as it filled the house, so perhaps she would have too. Don’t
know what to think about that. I’d like to think old age hasn’t taken my sense
of smell, but who knows? Also, had she gone out with her friends, she’d have
arrived home too late. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">We’re
also grateful that my clicking on the closet light switch didn’t detonate the
gas, that my lighting the four burners didn’t set it off, and that Darice and
Codie didn’t do the same when they lit the match. In asking a firefighter
friend in the Air Force about that, he said that there probably wasn’t enough
oxygen in the house to detonate the gas. Makes sense, except two cats, a hermit
crab, Molly and I all survived in a house so full of gas it left no room for
oxygen? And in looking for the cats after the firefighters left and allowed us
re-entry to the house, we found one of them hiding above the kitchen cupboards
in that little valley created by the wall and the cornice. Why didn’t he die?
He was right above the leak and should’ve been knocked out first thing and dead
a little while later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Perhaps
we’ll never know the answers. I wouldn’t believe it was as bad as it was if it
weren’t for having a professional firefighter (and his handy-dandy device) tell
us it was. Despite our curiosity and all those unanswered questions, we are
grateful beyond belief to be alive. (I imagine our landlords are too.) We will
take our stroke of luck (or divine intervention) and be happy for it. We have a
new appreciation for the brevity and uncertainty of life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">And a whole new dread of our gas stove. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Until the next time ...</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-77304333588639561562017-03-03T13:06:00.000-08:002017-03-03T13:08:45.316-08:00Old Friends, Good Times, and Belly Laughs<span style="font-size: large;">A dear friend of mine left my house this morning to return to her home in Michigan. After spending a couple of months in Gulf Shores, Alabama, she asked if she could stop by on her way back north. I jumped at the chance to see her again.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Karen and I met when we both worked at a Social Services office in Michigan. She was a raving beauty (still is, for that matter), with a raucous sense of humor and irresistible smile. We bonded for life during the little time I worked there before moving to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, after my husband returned from Vietnam. After that our lives took weird, yet similar paths over the years. We both were divorced from our first husbands when they left us for women eleven years older than they were and raised our children (two for her, three for me) as poverty-stricken, hardworking, frazzled, single moms. I spent a lifetime working for a school district as the superintendent's secretary (five superintendents over the years), and she joined the school board somewhere in there and is still serving on the board despite my telling her she's nuts. We faced many problems, some serious, some idiotic, during those overlapping years, and she still keeps me abreast of what's happening up there. Now we're both retired from our "day jobs," while she continues to serve on the board, and I spend my time taking care of my granddaughter, traveling to see my other children and grandchildren, and writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Karen is a skilled writer in her own right, and has authored a column for many years. Our political and religious views are about as dissimilar as possible, but we've always found a way to listen to the other's viewpoint and express our own without going for one another's throats. That's probably due to a couple of things: we both respect one another (and opinions, even though they don't mesh with our own), and our combined, wild and wooly sense of humor. I can always look forward to a belly-laughing, deep cleansing renewal of my spirit when I spend time with Karen. Our conversations are intriguing, spirited, enlightening, and inevitably expose me to views and causes I've never known about or considered. She seldom changes my mind, but she presents her points with passion, and I respect her devotion to what she feels is the correct way of dealing with topics as varied as family, school districts, bosses, leaders, and the nation. She's an intelligent, intuitive, educated woman who has helped innumerable people throughout her life.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I'm honored to have Karen in my life, and I look forward to many more in-person and long distance conversations in our futures. The world needs more women like her, women who are passionate about what they've learned from their life experiences, who love people enough to respect them even if she disagrees with their viewpoints, and who give of their time, money, and laughter to keep their friends on the straight and narrow and the world on its axis.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">It's a tough job, but someone has to do it. My someone is Karen. Love you, K.K. Wibesep.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Until the next time...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-60495821720637827762016-10-09T13:31:00.000-07:002016-11-11T10:17:19.148-08:00A Lifetime of Time<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2oaKJtXwS-U/V_qnxJDj73I/AAAAAAAApwo/tVeiFzx_rVU0ksGzKCgCpyikDtxDGzSJACK4B/s1600/IMG_9134.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2oaKJtXwS-U/V_qnxJDj73I/AAAAAAAApwo/tVeiFzx_rVU0ksGzKCgCpyikDtxDGzSJACK4B/s320/IMG_9134.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I doubt if this butterfly worries about the life already lived. <br />
He/She lives for the moment and that next taste of the sweet<br />
nectar God gives to His littlest creatures.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had two sobering occasions occur recently--my oldest child turned 44, and my oldest grandchild turned 15. That makes me at least 50 years old. Sigh.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, okay, I'm older than 50 years old. How much older isn't important. My point is that despite my best efforts, neither my children nor my grandchildren have remained babies. In the case of my son and grandson, they grew up just as they were supposed to and evolved from adorable infants to fine men. Derek is middle-aged (oh, my gosh, I can't believe I just typed that), and Dustin is on the verge of adulthood. From all indications, he too will turn into a fine young man.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I also have two beautiful daughters (both over 40), and in addition to Dustin, I have four other grandsons (13, 9, 9, and 5) and a 5-year-old granddaughter. All of them share the same compassionate, intelligent, and hard-working characteristics as Derek and Dustin. I'm surrounded by incredible people--and they're all younger than me.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">How on earth did that happen? Wasn't it just last month that I was the youngest in the office, the baby of the restaurant where I waited tables? Wasn't it last week that I was the youngest office manager in the state's social services system? What happened to those 40 or so years? How did I go from the youngest in just about every situation in which I found myself to being the oldest person in the room?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Well, if I stopped blathering long enough I'd realize that <i>time</i> is what happened. The passage of time--that slow, but inexorable ticking of the clock, second by minute by hour by day until the days turned to weeks and the weeks to months and the months to years. The years? Well, they turned to decades, and eventually, they'll turn into a lifetime.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">A lifetime of time. Sounds odd, doesn't it? But that's what life is. Time. God has given us the time to live our lives, and coupled with the gifts He imbues us with, the opportunity to live those lives, to <i>spend</i> all that time in His service. He desires that we become the men and women He intends us to be and to live out our time on earth glorifying our Heavenly Father.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">The older I become, the more clearly I see not only His Hand in my life, but the ways in which He wants me to behave, the paths He wants me to take and those He wants me to avoid. Of course, decades of experience helped make my vision clearer, but looking backward at more years already lived than I have before me can have the same sobering effect as a slap across the face with a large, wet fish. I've <i>already </i>lived many more years than I will live during my entire future on this planet. Not everyone can say that, so I'm careful to remember that I'm fortunate to be growing older. Some people never have that chance. Their lives are sometimes over before they really begin--or at least before they gain traction. The fact that God has allowed me to live this many years means He still has something for me to accomplish in His Name.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Now I can either bemoan the years that have passed as if their passing were a bad thing, or I can rejoice that those years happened in the first place--that my children and grandchildren were born and grew into fine human beings. They have their paths to take; I have mine. Just because I started out on my path before theirs began isn't a bad thing. Mine will end before theirs, as well, but that will be because I've accomplished all I was supposed to. They still have things to do, places to go, people to meet and influence, spouses to marry, children to raise, jobs to work at. Lives are staggered that way for purposes that only God knows fully, but I know one thing. If we were all born at the same time, lived our lives and died at the same time, life would be one big train wreck.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">God knows what He's doing. Allowing me to celebrate the birthdays, anniversaries, births, joys, and triumphs of my children and grandchildren is a privilege only He can bestow. How dare I diminish that great blessing by bemoaning the fact they're growing older along with me?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I am blessed beyond comprehension and have joys that defy explanation all because of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Thank You, Lord.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Until the next time ...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-29839507589636911492016-09-09T14:10:00.001-07:002016-11-11T10:18:02.669-08:00Dropping the Devil's Bonds<span style="font-size: large;">It's been ages since I posted, and you'll never guess why! Ready? Here goes: No good reason. None. None <i>at all</i>. I just didn't know what to post and had that "deer in the headlights" look in my brain whenever I realized I hadn't posted in forever. So I just didn't do anything.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">Not a very good reason, huh?</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-size: large;">I know it's not, so I finally decided to simply blog about why I haven't blogged. I think this is a problem many of us face whether we're writers, moms, dads, employees, bosses, whatever. We don't know what to do next (because Heaven forbid we make a mistake), so we make the worst mistake of all and don't do anything. We're paralyzed by uncertainty, and instead of doing something--anything--we choose to do nothing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And yes, it's a choice. I <i>chose</i> not writing because I was afraid I'd write something dumb (like this post, perhaps?) and make a fool of myself. How's that for dumb? In my not-so-gallant effort to avoid looking like a dolt, I spent months doing nothing and looking more doltish (doltisher?) by the minute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But that's all behind me now. I've spent a lot of time lately evaluating why I do or don't do certain things. Most of it boils down to being afraid of looking bad/amateurish/dumb/ignorant/unkind and on and on. This applies to the rest of my life, by the way, not just my writing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Uncertainty is a tool the devil uses to bind us so we don't do what God created us to do. And he's been binding his evil heart out around me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">That stops <i>now.</i></span><br />
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Just because I'm not sure what to do about something doesn't mean that what I <i>do </i>choose to do will be wrong. Maybe it'll take me on a journey to what is right. Maybe it'll bomb. But in any event, I'll be actively seeking an answer rather than twiddling my thumbs and giving the devil something to grin about. Confusion, indecision, uncertainty, fear, prudence, whatever you choose to call it or whatever situation you find yourself in that causes any of the above will probably require some action on your part. Yes, some things resolve themselves without our assistance. There's nothing wrong with a "wait and see" attitude unless it's a "wait and see forever because I'm so darned afraid of doing something wrong that I'm tied in knots and basically useless." But if it's clear that action is needed, do your homework, make your best guess, and then take your best shot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My most recent conundrum has been how to best market my latest novel. Because I couldn't come up with a sure-fire way to become an instant bestselling author, I came up with absolutely nothing. Oh, I tried lots of stuff all right, so much in fact that it all became useless. You can take all the shots you want, but if you don't have a clear target you're shooting blindly. Rather like using a water pistol to put out as forest fire. It doesn't do any harm, but it doesn't do any good either. My mind was filled with ideas and although none of them seemed perfect, some were not so bad. I immediately eliminated what I couldn't afford, which was a good start. But after that, I had no idea what idea was the <i>best</i> idea for me, so I did the worst possible thing. <i>Nothing</i>. If I'd tried some of them back when I first thought of them, I'd have a good idea by now which ones worked and which didn't. As it is, though, I'm left with a brain full of ideas and <i>still </i>no idea which ones will work. The only way to rectify that is to try them out--one at a time, two at a time, it doesn't matter. What matters is that I <i>try. </i></span><br />
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I can feel the devil grinding his ugly teeth. His hold on me is lessening; his ropes of indecision and insecurity are loosening. I am almost free of his grimy, slimy bonds, and it feels so good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So very good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Until the next time ...</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-46047394119950447592015-10-19T00:30:00.000-07:002015-10-19T00:30:00.795-07:00Cynthia T. Toney and her "Bird Face" series!Today I have Cynthia T. Toney, author of the "Bird Face" series with us today to discuss how she started writing, as well as the first two releases of her series, <i>8 Notes to a Nobody </i>and <i>10 Steps to Girlfriend Status.</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cynthia, welcome to Deborah Deetales. It's great to have you here. To start things off, please tell us why and how you started writing. </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Thanks
for inviting me, Deborah. I tried different types of writing as an adult—advertising
and marketing copy, greeting cards, and nonfiction articles. The writing bug
latched onto me with its teeth and wouldn’t let go until it convinced me that I
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">When I
decided to write fiction, it had to be a novel for young people. There was so
much I wanted to show pre-teens and teens about how wonderful and powerful God
made them. They have the ability to overcome adversity and help shape their own
lives. But I knew I couldn’t lecture them. I had use story to entertain while I
demonstrated through the characters’ actions how they could react to, work
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<b><span style="font-family: inherit;">You have two books out now in the Bird
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In <i>8 Notes to a Nobody, </i>originally titled <i>Bird Face</i>,<i> </i>shy Wendy discovers that most of her peers have problems, some of
them hiding serious ones. The reader sees different characters react
differently to similar problems, with very different results. I hope it helps young people understand to
think carefully before they make some of the choices they make and to seek help
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Status </i><span style="font-family: inherit;">may sound like a teen romance, but there’s much more to it than
that. Wendy is now in high school. Two boys are interested in her: David, from
the first story, and Sam, the hearing-impaired grandson of Wendy’s surrogate
grandmother, Mrs. Villaturo. Her friendships with both boys and the start of an
innocent romance show girls that it’s best to get to know boys as people and
friends first. At the same time, Wendy discovers that Mrs. Villaturo suffers
from Alzheimer’s, and she fights Mrs. V’s son to try to keep him from moving
Mrs. V to Alaska. The mystery in the story has to do with a relative of Wendy’s
who disappeared in the early ’60s, and the mystery winds up involving two
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I drew
on my own memories of youth, my daughter’s life experiences, and some of the
insecurities and struggles I witnessed in the lives of many young people she or
I knew. We both were devastated by suicides among her peers, and because of
that, I chose to delicately address a teen suicide in book one, <i>8 Notes to a
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Wendy
remains a constant character because these are her stories now. David, Alice,
Jennifer, Gayle, and Sam appear, recede at times, and come back in force. In
book three, Wendy gets into some serious trouble at school. Jennifer, who was
Wendy’s best friend in book one but receded into the background in book two,
becomes a major character again in book three. And of course, there is another
mystery. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Write
Integrity Press has three under contract for now, but I would like to keep
writing about Wendy and have her advance in years until she graduates from high
school.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes,
thank you for asking. There are so many variables regarding that, anyone
interested should contact me through my website, cynthiaTtoney.com. (Be sure to
include the middle initial T.) </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The
first two titles are available on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com. I’d love
for ChristianBook.com to carry them. The more people ask ChristianBook.com for
them, the more likely they will carry them, so I’m counting on the public’s
demand to assist me. Of course, I’d love for readers to ask their local
bookstores, too. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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like to tell your readers? Any advice? Please tell them why you consider them
so valuable and why you devote so much of your life to writing about and for
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Never
give up on your dreams. Believe in yourself even if no other human being seems
to. God loves you. And authors like me who write for teens wouldn’t do it if we
didn’t care. </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Cynthia. Can your readers contact you for answers to questions or information
about your books? I’m sure they’d love to visit your website and your other
social media sites. Can you give us those addresses? </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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</span><a href="http://birdfacewendy.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: #386eff; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;">http://birdfacewendy.wordpress.com</span></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; mso-bidi-font-size: 16.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is a former advertising designer, marketing director, and interior decorator
who holds a BA in art education with a minor in history. While employed by a
large daily newspaper, she rewrote some ad copy without permission and got into
trouble for it. At that point, she knew she was destined to become an author. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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she’s not cooking Cajun or Italian food, Cynthia writes historical and contemporary
teen fiction containing elements of mystery and romance. Cynthia loves
animal-shelter dogs and the friendly South from Georgia to Texas, where she
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<i><br /></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-35259380643171267592015-07-12T15:35:00.000-07:002015-07-12T16:16:21.133-07:00Ever Had One of Those Days? (PLUS a big announcement!)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is joyous little Molly chasing bubbles.<br />
This is what I looked like that day--well,<br />
not exactly, since I'm older, taller, a tad,<br />
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Some days are just better than others. Most days start out normally enough--I get up, get myself ready, drink my coffee, feed Molly (my 3-year-old granddaughter) her breakfast as her mom and dad leave for school and work, dress her in fresh clothes, etc. If it happens to be a day when my son-in-law or daughter are home, the Molly chores are relegated to them and I'm free to write, tweet, blog, email, edit, Facebook, and perform all the other myriad duties of a writer.<br />
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Yesterday was one of those days.<br />
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Once at my desk, I found myself once more wending my way through the mine-littered jungle of social media marketing that's taken its toll on me recently. I've been reduced to a whimpering, quivering, complaining ball of self-pity. Just when I think I've mastered one form of media, another pops up, and I'm forced to learn its particular ins and outs. My publisher and writing cohorts have witnessed my slow, but gradual introduction to Twitter, and if not for them, I'd have given up and crawled into a corner. I haven't been shy, either, about confessing my frustrations, but some days I find I learn a little more about "stuff" and a lot more about myself.<br />
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Yesterday was one of those days.<br />
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It occurred to me, fresh from yet another rant, that I was belittling something writers would've given their comfy computer chair for just a few years ago. In the 80s, I think email was the closest most writers could come to marketing their books without spending money, other than what they paid to have internet service. Once in a while, a writer would create a newsletter but for the most part those were read mostly by family and close friends. With the onset of the internet for <i>both</i> home and business use (gasp!), our reach expanded world-wide, but unless you had a website (and believe me, I didn't), there was little you could do but buy an ad on the internet or use your trusty email list. In the 50s, not that I remember them in any detail, mind you, computers were the stuff of science fiction and a computer or two in most homes (in countries where circumstances allowed it) was off-the-charts crazy. No way, no how. If you had a book published and your publisher didn't do all the marketing, you had to buy ads for newspapers or magazines. Some days I think about things a little more deeply.<br />
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Yesterday was one of those days.<br />
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I realized that as frustrating as learning (and in some cases, relearning) Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, blogs, websites and other media forms with which I'm not familiar can be, they are all free. Can you imagine how thrilled we'd be if after paying for these wonderful tools for marketing, advertising, creating relationships, making contacts, keeping in touch with friends, colleges, and family members, they were suddenly declared<i> free</i>? If after spending money on marketing--money that most of us don't have to throw around--the powers-that-be declared that from now on we could garner world-wide attention to our work at <i>no cost.</i> Some days I come to my senses.<br />
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Yesterday was one of those days.<br />
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To top off my victory against my fear of social media and the resulting pity parties, I was invited to appear on Atlanta's WATC, Channel 57, for an interview about my upcoming Christian novel, <i>Misstep. </i>Talk about one of those days! When I'd whooped and hollered and danced around long enough (please see above picture), my publisher, Tracy Ruckman of <a href="http://www.writeintegrity.blogspot.com/">Write Integrity Press</a>, and I talked about this God-granted opportunity. Fortunately, the edits for <i>Misstep</i> were nearly complete, so she was able to send them to me immediately. At long last, my book will be published! And following <i>Misstep, </i>will come the 2nd and 3rd books of the Road's End series--<i>Faux Pas</i> and <i>Misjudge.</i> Yes, some days are better than others.<br />
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And yesterday was one of those days.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-16503073789191763592015-06-22T00:30:00.000-07:002015-06-22T08:30:34.944-07:00The Only Thing We Have to Fear is... Getting It All WrongI know many of you long for the freedom (uh... nope), ease (yeah, right), and wealth (hahahaha) of all writers everywhere, and think the life of said writer is one long session of retiring to our garrets, drinking copious amounts of coffee and other caffeine-laden drinks, staring out the window at the scenery beyond, and making things up. Let me set you straight.<br />
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Aside from that freedom, ease, and wealth baloney, you're... absolutely right! That's exactly what we do. It's not so cut and dry for the non-fiction writers among us, of course, but for those of us writing fiction, it's just that simple.<br />
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Or is it? Let me explain.<br />
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Yes, we retire to our "garret," which in most cases is <i>not</i> up a long, winding, stone stairway to a tiny room at the top of a tall tower with a window that faces the east when we want to see a sunrise and the west when we want to watch a sunset (it's a magic window), but rather anyplace we can find to plunk down our computer. It might be one of those fancy "office garrets,' or a simpler "couch garret." It might be a comfortable "bed garret," or an uncomfortable "bathroom garret." Of course, there are the ever-popular "Starbucks" and "Barnes and Noble" garrets where you'll find several writers using the same garret you are. (Have I used the word "garret" enough, or would you like me to expound on that topic a bit longer? No? Okay.)<br />
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Moving on. Yes, we often drink coffee. Or tea. Or wine. That's why Starbucks and Barnes and Noble are so popular for writing. However, taking your computer to a wine-tasting event is often frowned upon, and you have to keep moving around to different wine stores because they won't let you come in a second time, but at least the drinks are free.<br />
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And we do stare out the window, unless we're in the bathroom and have to stand on the edge of the bathtub to look out one of those skinny, rectangular, frosted windows and find out we can't see anything anyway, so we might as well not try because sure as shootin', we'll break a leg trying.<br />
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Lastly, we do make things up. To a point. Our imaginations are our best friends during our writing sessions, but even making things up requires diligence and hard work lest we screw things up. I once attributed the quote, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself," to Winston Churchill, and was chastised (none too gently, I might add) and told it was actually Franklin Delano Roosevelt who used those stirring words. Using the wrong colloquialisms for the period is another problem historical book writers have to worry about. For instance, having your knight from the Crusades saying, "Hot dang, that was close!" isn't going to cut it. Even readers with little or no knowledge of ancient languages know that knights would more likely have said, "Hot dangeth, that was nearbyeth!"<br />
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In short, writers of any genre--with the exception of speculative or science fiction--have to stay true to the period, geography, language, dress, and historical events that were/are indicative of the location and period we're writing about. We don't want to jar our readers with a glaring inaccuracy... like a wrongly-attributed famous quote, for instance (not that I would know anything about that). We strive to make our job of making things up a pleasure for our readers no matter what or where we've placed our characters.<br />
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We just don't plunk them into the bathroom at a wine-tasting event.<br />
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Until the next time...<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-23197331548405061722015-05-18T12:24:00.001-07:002015-05-18T12:33:56.268-07:00Michael and MeWhat on earth, you ask, do Michael W. Smith (internationally-known musician, composer, and singer) and I (an author known to my immediate family, mother, and grandmother) have in common? (Well, maybe you didn't actually say it, but humor me.) Plenty, I reply, plenty. And here's the proof:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Michael W. Smith is as kind and considerate in real life<br />
as his songs are soul-inspiring and joyful when he performs them. <br />
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A picture!<br />
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Yes, that's me with Michael's arm on my shoulder. Even though I look like one of those life-sized cardboard cutouts, and I'm paler than most snow drifts, that's <i>me</i> standing next to the great (and incredibly handsome) Michael W. Smith at a meet-and-greet just before his concert on Sunday, May 10th. Since meeting him, I've been completely blown away by how much we have in common.<br />
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1. Michael and I were both at the <a href="http://www.wochurch.org/">World Outreach Church</a> in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on the evening of Sunday, May 10, 2015! Can you believe the coincidence? Yes, he was there to do a concert with the talented and insanely beautiful Amy Grant, and yes, I was there <i>for</i> the concert, but still... both of us there <i>at the same time</i>? What are the chances? (Pretty darned good, since we bought the tickets a millisecond after they went on sale.)<br />
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2. Michael is married and his wife's name is...are you ready for this?... Deborah!(<i>My</i> name is Deborah!)<br />
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3. Michael was born in October and I was born in November! (Just one month apart and maybe a year or two (okay, a <i>few</i> years) apart, but hey, it's still pretty weird.)<br />
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4. Michael is a composer, musician, and wildly-popular singer. I'm a writer, took piano lessons for two years, and I... get this...<i>sing along with Michael</i>.<i> </i>I know, I know. Pretty wild, huh?<br />
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5. He lives in Tennessee. I live in Tennessee. Just gets stranger and stranger. <br />
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6. Michael graciously accepted a copy of the children's adventure book, <i>Laramie on the Lam,</i> for his grandchildren. I <i>wrote </i>that book. Of course, I took two copies <i>with</i> me to the concert (one for Michael, and one for Amy) for the purpose of giving one to each of them. Still... seeing my book in the hands of Michael W. Smith and Amy Grant was a thrill.<br />
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7. And last, but certainly not least, Michael loves the Lord. I love the Lord. He composes, plays, and sings for the glory of our Father. I write, edit (and then write some more) for the glory of our Father. <br />
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You've probably figured out by now that I'm spoofing the things I have in common with Michael. Except for that last one. It was very apparent from the way he treated his fans at the meet-and-greet and his audience during the nearly 3-hour concert that his love for God is genuine. What a wonderful role model for younger generations and what a thrill for his older fans to know he's the real deal. We need more Michael W. Smiths and Amy Grants in our entertainment realm and in the world as a whole.<br />
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The love for God displayed in his music and during his concerts is also contagious. I dare anyone to sit through a concert of Michael W. Smith's (or Amy Grant's, for that matter) and <i>not</i> want to worship our Heavenly Father.<br />
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Thanks, Michael. Thanks, Amy. Thank You, God.<br />
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Until the next time...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-35719920064956608852015-05-05T11:50:00.000-07:002015-05-05T11:56:23.609-07:00Excellent news!My wonderful agent, Terry Burns of Hartline Literary Agency, has placed my Road's End series with <a href="http://www.writeintegrity.com/">Write Integrity Press</a>! I'm blessed and honored to be a part of this wonderful publishing house, its employees, and its family of writers.<br />
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Just when I thought my three books (<i>Misstep, Faux Pas,</i> and <i>Misjudge</i>) would never see the light of a publishing day, it happened. And just as quickly, I was made comfortable by the welcoming words of editor Tracy Ruckman who made me feel right at home.<br />
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I'm not quite sure when <i>Misstep</i> will be published or how soon the other two books, <i>Faux Pas </i>and <i>Misjudge, </i>will follow. I'll let you know when those details are worked out. In the meantime, what I <i>do</i> know is that I'm happy, excited, and proud to be a part of the Write Integrity Press family.<br />
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The Road's End series tells the stories of Pastor Hugh Foster (former Air Force colonel and chaplain) and his wife Melanie and how they deal with the ornery, lovable, feuding, patriotic, and well-meaning, but sometimes inept citizens of Road's End, Virginia. I can guarantee lots of laughter, adventure, shenanigans, love, inspiration, and perhaps some tears along the way. Please join me on a hilarious and touching journey with the good (and crazy) folks of tiny Road's End. You won't be sorry.<br />
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And before I forget, once again I find myself thanking God for Terry Burns, agent extraordinaire!<br />
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Until the next time...Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-14333027167902148682015-04-03T13:52:00.000-07:002015-04-03T13:52:53.618-07:00It is finished!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's been far too long since I checked in, friends. Life has kept me busy, but that's no excuse to stop communicating. I'm writing this on Good Friday at a little past 2:30 p.m. While I know I'm not in the right time zone and I may be a bit off on the timeline, I'm counting down the minutes until our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ cries, "It is finished!" and takes our sin and the punishment for that sin (death) upon His holy shoulders. It's more than I can comprehend, but God knows I'm struggling to understand the depth of His sacrifice for His children.<br />
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Perhaps I will never understand completely how horrible His death really was. I can imagine, of course; I can try to put myself in His place, but that's laughable in its impossibility. How a man, righteous or not, could tolerate the pain and degradation He endured <i>before</i> He was nailed to the cross is beyond belief. But to endure all that knowing that once He reached Golgotha, He would be <i>nailed--</i>not positioned with soft fabric, not even tied with ropes, but <i>nailed</i>--to the cross and left to hang in the sun for however long it took Him to die--well, that defies comprehension. And He was God. He was the Creator of all that was, is, and ever will be. He is the Alpha and the Omega. And yet, he died such a lowly death for <i>us.</i><br />
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It is now just after 3:00 p.m. My Lord has died upon the cross for me. He has taken my sin with Him and offered me His forgiveness and love and guidance and friendship and salvation and everlasting life with Him after my own death, which no matter how gruesome it may be, could never be as bad as His.<br />
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I often wonder how we humans would react if we were told we could have everlasting life in Heaven for only one million dollars per soul? You can bet there'd be a lot of panic, murder, thievery, embezzlement and other cutthroat activities in our scramble to secure a spot for our everlasting soul and those of our loved ones. What if God required His children to be crucified on the cross, just as His Son was, for the privilege of living with Him for all eternity? How many takers would there be to die in such a gruesome manner to secure your soul's forgiveness and an eternity with our Heavenly Father?<br />
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Luckily, none of us have to endure either of those scenarios, because in His divine love for us, God has offered salvation (forgiveness of our sins and an eternity with Him) to all of us for... absolutely nothing. He doesn't want us to equate money or other earthly goods with the Best of the best. He doesn't want us to die in our sins, so he offered His Son to die in our stead. Could<i> you</i> do that? Could you watch your son die so horribly for the sins of <i>others</i>? I don't know about you, but I couldn't. No way. But God did. And I'm sure it hurt Him immeasurably more than it would hurt us to see our sons hanging on that cross, bleeding, scourged, thirsty, broken, mocked. Can you imagine a hurt that great?<br />
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So if we admit our sins, recognize Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, and ask for forgiveness, He writes our names in the Book of Life! No strings attached. I don't know about you, but that's one book I want my name in! I could reach the top of the bestseller list everyday for the rest of my life and it wouldn't mean one iota as much as having my name among the other saved souls in this world.<br />
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Rejoice, for on the third day, He will rise! He has defeated death. He has taken our sin. He has invited us into His family. He has offered us an eternity in His Presence. Are you one of His children?<br />
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Until the next time...<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-37300739780693510612014-09-15T20:40:00.001-07:002014-09-15T20:40:55.774-07:00It's About Time! Okay, readers, take out a clean sheet of paper and a pencil. It's pop quiz time. (Has your stomach sunk to your ankles yet?)<br />
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All right then, can you tell me which of the following is the hardest part of being a writer?<br />
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1. Coming up with story ideas<br />
2. Plotting the book<br />
3. Researching the book<br />
4. Writing the book<br />
5. Editing the book<br />
6. Writing and editing the proposal<br />
7. All of the above<br />
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Time's up. Pencils down. And the answer is..... ready? None of the above! Yep, the hardest part of being a writer is the <em>waiting</em>. (I know I cheated by not giving you that option, but hey, it's my blog and I get to do what I want.) Back to my thoughts.<br />
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Waiting, as any writer will tell you, is without a doubt the hardest part of our profession, and it doesn't matter if the wait is twenty seconds or two years. Time slows down when you wait. (That's a scientific fact I just made up.) It also speeds up at the most inopportune times, but that's a topic for another day. <br />
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Time crawls like traffic on the Beltway on Monday morning after two semis tangle when you're waiting for your agent to tell you if your proposal and manuscript are ready (and worthy) to send out to prospective publishers. It might be seven seconds since you sent that email to him, but it feels like seven months. He might get back with you in ten minutes, but to you, it might as well be ten years because that's how much you've aged.<br />
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Time flows like frozen yogurt in Antarctica when you're waiting to hear if This Is the One Publishing House wants the full manuscript, or if it made it to this or that committee, or if they think it would make a great series.<br />
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Perhaps worse, though, is that time screeches to a whiplash-inducing halt when you're waiting for the contract to arrive before someone at the publishing house decides they really don't like your plot/characters/ writing style/pacing/humor/hair color/or homemade tomato soup after all and yells "stop the presses" (if anyone ever says that anymore) and the whole thing goes down the drain.<br />
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But all that zips by at warp speed compared to waiting for your book to be... published. Yes, when that happens, when we finally have a contract signed, and we know for certain our baby will see the light of day, somehow time is altered so that a day is like a thousand years.<br />
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Sound familiar? I don't think that's what Peter meant when he wrote, <em>"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day." </em>(2 Peter 3:8), and he almost certainly wasn't talking about writers. Still, we can take comfort in knowing that even in Biblical times, folks didn't like to wait. <br />
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It's nobody's fault and no one is prolonging the wait just to make us writhe in agony while we wait for that one special email with our edits or cover art. No, they're working just as hard to get our books published as we did to get them written. (And I know this is hard to swallow--I know it is for me--but there are<em> other</em> authors out there whose books deserve the attention of the staff at This Is the One Publishing House just as much as ours do. Yes, that's right. Odd, I know. You mean the publishing world didn't come to a screeching halt when my manuscript arrived? No, Deb, it didn't.) <br />
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For them, however, time flows much more quickly than they desire. There aren't enough hours in the day for the emails, phone calls, meetings, decisions, conferences, reading, and whatever else editors and their staff members do to make our dreams come true. They want to see our book in print with its pretty cover with our name splashed across it and glorious back cover copy smelling all booksy and inky paper-like and those glorious words that <em>we </em>wrote inside those covers just as much as we do. After all, their salaries (and the future of the publishing house) depend on how much that book and hundreds and thousands like them can bring in. They are every bit as invested in our books as we are. <br />
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But as with all good things, they do happen eventually. (Thought I was going to say "come to an end," didn't you?) They happen and we're thrilled and the editor and staff are thrilled and our agent's thrilled and the hard work of marketing gets kicked up yet another notch and we're so darned excited and yes, thrilled, and happy and so are all the others and then... it dawns on us that we need to write <em>another</em> one (which we should've been doing all along in-between checking our email seventeen times an hour). Because there's no reason why we can't writhe in agony and write the next best seller at the same time. It's what we <em>do</em>, folks. <br />
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When you really think about it, no matter how long it <em>seems</em> to take to see our book in print, it takes only as long as God allows. It's all in His timing, His <em>perfect </em>timing. We can writhe and wring our hands and moan and groan and second-guess ourselves and our value as writers and check our email all we want, but if it's not <em>in God's perfect timing</em> that our book be published at that particular day or week or month in time,<em> </em>then it's just... not... time. <br />
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Until the next time...<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-24065468622785368172014-08-07T14:38:00.000-07:002014-08-07T14:38:47.035-07:00A fairy tale come true...Finding time to be a writer--just a writer, not a mother, daughter, grandmother, friend, neighbor--is tough. That's not news to anyone who writes, or paints, or does any other creative endeavor, because being creative seems to be put on the back burner when it comes to our life's "to do" lists.<br />
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Recently, I was fortunate enough to attend a two-week residency at the Golden Apple Art Residency on Ripley's Neck in Harrington, Maine. This glorious place, comprised of nine and a half acres of the piney woods of Maine and bordered on one side by the rocky shoreline of the Atlantic Ocean, is devoted to the advancement of the arts in an environment that encourages and celebrates creativity. Each artist (there were four of us, all women) has his/her own private cottage and individual studio (in the bottom floor of the main house). Our meals were all included. Delicious breakfasts and lunches were delivered to the studio commons area and our evening meals were held in the main house. Together, the four artists and our hosts, Shelley and Greg Stevens, ate luscious, regional fare prepared by Shelley, talked, laughed, and formed bonds for life. </div>
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There was one other writer there, Yvonne Navarro of Arizona, who has 22 published books to her credit! The others were artists were Erin Overmeyer, an art teacher from Michigan, who painted beautiful pictures in acrylic of abandoned schools to showcase the downward spiral of neighborhoods and communities when schools close, and Anne Gochenour, Central Michigan University Art Gallery Director, who did gorgeous work in mixed media.</div>
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The scenery was gorgeous, the environment natural and inspiring, the food delicious, and the company wonderful. While our lifestyles, spiritual and political views, and backgrounds all differed, we respected the opinions of others. At the end of the two weeks, you'd have thought we'd known one another for years. Besides all the pampering I enjoyed, I worked hard. And I mean <i>hard.</i> Our studios were available to us 24 hours a day, and although I wore out long before I even approached the all-nighter stage, I accomplished everything I set out to do. I took over 1500 pictures, added several thousand words to my WIP (and edited the rest of it), and commuted with God--the three goals I set for myself.<br />
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But in addition to all the pampering and beautiful surroundings, I also experienced another advantage to getting away from it all. The encouragement and inspiration other like-minded individuals, artists of one kind or another who value creativity, was a shot in the arm. While I know, logically and through social and professional networking, there are others out there who share my passion to write for God, sometimes I feel alone. Apart. Rudderless.<br />
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And now I feel refreshed, part of something greater than myself, and anchored. Doesn't get much better than that! Many thanks to my hosts, Shelley and Greg Stevens of Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (when they're not in Harrington, Maine). If anyone is interested in applying to the residency, you can find out more at <a href="http://www.goldenapplestudio.com/residency">www.goldenapplestudio.com/residency</a>. Believe me, you won't be sorry.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The town landing just down the<br />shoreline from the residency, where the<br />lobster boats chug out every morning (early, <i>early</i> morning)<br />and return every afternoon with their fresh catch. </td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-19961514237454697322014-06-09T10:06:00.000-07:002014-06-09T10:06:26.788-07:00Blog Relay Day!<br /><br />
Today I'm participating in a blog tour via my friend, Donn Taylor (<a href="http://donntaylor.blogspot.com/">http://donntaylor.blogspot.com</a> and <a href="http://www.donntaylor.com/">www.donntaylor.com</a>), via Preslaysa Williams at <a href="http://www.preslaysa.com/">www.preslaysa.com</a>. I hope the questions below and my answers to them will give you a clearer idea of who I am as a writer, what I'm working on now, and how and why I do it. Here goes: <br /><br /><strong>What am I working on now?</strong><br /><br /> At the moment, I'm working on the first book of what I hope will become a series. I won't reveal much more than that, except that it's darker than my Road's End series and deals with the eternal consequences of sin and how the devil and his demons work day and night to keep us from being the Christians God wants us to be and to keep non-believers from coming to Christ. It's a departure from my other series, but I feel led by God to write this particular book. <br /><br /><strong>How does my work differ from others in its genre?</strong><br /><br />Although my work is inspirational and Christian in scope and context, I also use a lot of humor in my stories. I think God gave us a sense of humor to help us deal with one another and with life, as well as to forgive our own foibles. Being able to laugh at ourselves and see the absurdity of our actions (as well as in the actions of others) helps us to realize we are bur mere humans and as such, are going to mess up on occasion. My characters, although larger than life in some instances, will remind readers of a neighbor, friend, relative, classmate, co-worker, or maybe even themselves. Sometimes it's good to just sit back and laugh at the human condition.<br /><br /> That said, the series I'm working on now flies in the face of what I just told you about humor in my writing. Although there is a lighthearted aspect of this series in some parts, it's of such a serious nature, and I believe so strongly in its intended message, that too much humor would water down the eternal consequences of ignoring God (and the devil, for that matter).<br /><br /><strong> Why do I write what I do?</strong><br /><br /> I believe my assignment while I’m on this earth is to use my God-given skills (and every last one of us has our own set of skills) to write novels and hopefully bring others to Him. One of those skills is my sense of humor. Mixing laughter with the Good News of Jesus Christ might bring a reader to salvation who would otherwise turn his or her back on the message an author is trying to get across. It comes naturally to me to write what I do (and to write it the way I do), and fortunately, I love doing it.<br /><br /><strong>How does my writing process work?</strong><br /><br />Pretty much hit and miss, to be honest. I’d like to say I sit down at 8:00 a.m. and write until I’ve completed 10,000 words, but that would be a big, fat lie. Yes, I’ve been known to write through the night when a deadline looms after I’ve let it creep up on me, always thinking “I’ll tackle it tomorrow,” but that’s rare. I’d also like to say I’m continually energized, inspired, and feeling particularly creative. That, too, would be a lie. What I can say (without lying) is that the more I write, the more energized, inspired, and creative I become. Energy begets energy, being inspired begets more inspiration... you get the picture. It’s a matter of sitting down and hitting the keys no matter how drained or uninspired I feel. <br />
<br />The fact is, writing is the hardest work I’ve ever done. Nothing has messed with my self-esteem more than writing, yet nothing has made me feel closer to God than using the skills He gave me to glorify Him. God has given me the time, ability, equipment, and desire to write, and I can’t ignore those blessings. The fact is, I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. <br /><br />Until the next time...<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-47212495916793812702013-09-05T10:31:00.002-07:002013-09-05T10:31:47.260-07:00In His HandsAside from glorifying God with our work, a Christian writer's greatest dream is to finally hold that hard-earned, slaved-over, finally-published book in his or her hands. <br />
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Sadly, one of our fellow authors from Hartline Literary Agency, Dianne Price, never had that chance. She died just one week before <em>Broken Wings, </em>the first book of her World War II series, was published by Ashberry Lane. <br />
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I never met Dianne and knew her only briefly through the writer's loop of our mutual agent, Terry W. Burns. But one look at her smiling face told me everything I needed to know. She was joyous, hopeful, and God-fearing. She worked hard to finish her books and longed to hold that first one before she died. But God had other plans and I'm sure His were far better than any that mere humans could conjure up! Dianne (and her book) are now in God's Hands.<br />
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The first of Dianne's books is now available for sale. Please take a look at the following links to learn more about Dianne and find out how you and anyone else you know can hold Dianne's book <em>for</em> her. <br />
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Until the next time....Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-50841260599691198442013-06-15T13:56:00.000-07:002013-06-15T13:56:36.361-07:00Two down; one to go!Another milestone reached! I've now completed and submitted the second book in my Road's End series, titled <em>Faux Pas,</em> to my publisher.<em> Faux Pas</em> continues with the (mis)adventures of Pastor Hugh Foster and his wife, Melanie, and the rest of the residents of Road's End, Virginia, as they battle the worst nature can throw at them and juggle a wedding, an atheist for a future son-in-law, a new grandson, and the arrival of a very important guest. <br />
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I love writing about Road's End and can't imagine ever abandoning these folks forever. It's my deepest hope that readers, once these books are published, will feel the same way. I'll let you know when the first one, <em>Misstep</em>, is published! <br />
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Now it's on to number three. Wish me luck.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-85070231275796842013-03-21T09:45:00.000-07:002013-03-21T09:45:00.396-07:00It's on!Things are getting exciting around here. I've received the signed copy of my contract from OakTara and last night, I sent in my edited version of <em>Misstep</em>, along with my author picture and bio, dedication, and acknowledgments. I'm assuming they'll be in touch with lots of edits and changes (which I'll be happy to do!) and then ask for other things like cover ideas, endorsements, etc. <br />
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In the meantime, I need to continue with my marketing and promotion (which might be a little easier once I get a cover to use in those communications), as well as finishing up <em>Faux Pas</em>, the second book in <em>The Road's End Series.</em> While I've waited all my life for this opportunity, I'm afraid I feel like that poor, overused deer in the headlights. Where do I turn? What do I do first? Can I multitask to be more efficient, or are multitask and efficient an oxymoron? Do I schedule my time and stick to it or should I do things as they feel right or when I'm in the mood to do them? <br />
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This is as much a time for learning as it is a time for joy. I'm in unfamiliar territory, but thankfully I have the good team at OakTara, my agent, Terry Burns, my Burns siblings, and our Heavenly Father to guide me through this season of joy and confusion.<br />
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Until the next time...<br />
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09472786888020830249noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3188051073009149450.post-39625315852628969902013-03-03T10:01:00.000-08:002013-03-03T10:02:44.358-08:00A 3-Book Contract!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Since the first book is written, all that remains is--well, big bunches of stuff. Editing, more editing, followed by... you guessed it, even more editing. Once <em>Misstep </em>is ready for publication, I'll be turning my attention once more to completing <em>Faux Pas, </em>which is nearly finished, and we'll begin with the editing all over again. Last, but not least, <em>Misjudge</em> will go through the same process. The next few months will be busy ones; thank goodness, we've already made the move from Alaska to Tennessee!<br />
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Thank you to Terry Burns (my beloved agent) and Hartline Literary Agency, as well as to Ramona Tucker of OakTara Publishers. I won't let you down--or you either, my dears friends, family, and readers.<br />
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