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If you love romances set in the old west, you’ll love this month’s free book, written by my friend, Keli Gwyn. Keli’s debut novel From the back cover: “Widow Elenora Watkins heads to California with her nine-year-old daughter, eager to become a partner in a mercantile. When the mulish owner withdraws his offer because she’s…
A Glance Back — Cedar Cove
At least once a day, my father goes through these doors with a smile on his face and an ache in his heart. He goes there because the love of his life is spending her last days being loved and cared for by the kind and competent staff at Cedar Cove Assisted Living. My mother…
May 2013 Free Book #1
Our first Free Book this month is a great suspense/mystery written by M.K. Gilroy. CUTS LIKE A KNIFE is a well-written edge-of-your-seat kind of read. From the back cover copy: “Kristen Conner goes undercover to catch a serial killer who chooses his victims in the most unlikely of places . . . only to discover…
FLASH
Wild Word Friday! The word FLASH comes to modern English from a rather unusual source, the Middle English word, flasken or flaschen, which means to rush along with a splashing sound. It’s somewhat of a mystery how a word that initially referred to the sound made by a rushing liquid, morphed into a word that…
AMISH
Wild Word Friday! You may have noticed that novels about the AMISH People are very popular. The AMISH lifestyle fascinates many people, particularly those who need a break from the fast-paced, hard-edged world we live in today. The AMISH people in the United States live much as they did 200 years ago, and refer to…
Small Joys–Family
Of course, family is anything but a small joy, but I can’t let March 23, 2021, go by without featuring my father in this blog series. Born just before the great depression in Arkansas, Dad knows what it was like to eat three meals a day of cornmeal mush. A champion high jumper, he knows…