History, Real Life and Faith
Writing about the Grand Canyon may seem random, but wait until you see the pictures! We flew OVER the Grand Canyon the other day and it was so fun, I want to share. I first saw the Grand Canyon as a child, with my mother anxiously trying to hold us back from getting too close. My father, typically, had already…
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Is naming characters for your friends a good idea? Many would argue no. But, if your friends are good-hearted and don’t mind, why not? That’s what I did in The Sunbonnet Bride, part of The 12 Brides of Summer Collection. I felt a little guilty naming characters after several friends, but when I showed them in the book–no one cared….
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The Fourth of July Bride by Amanda Cabot is part of The 12 Brides of Summer Novella Collection, and includes romantic fireworks! A sequel to her The Christmas Star Bride, the new novella returns readers to Esther’s bakery –the site of Esther’s Christmas romance with Jeremy, a portrait painter. Amanda enjoyed coming up with a summer romance to match. “I had so much fun…
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Where did the inspiration for one of my scenes in The Sunbonnet Bride come from? One of my favorite movie musicals: Oklahoma. In the movie, the townspeople indulged in a favorite money-raiser in frontier towns: the box luncheon auction. Plenty of variation on the theme are out there and I used a pie auction in place of a lunch–though the…
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How do you use a devotional book in daily devotions? (This is part four of a series of posts about Devotionals. Click on the numbers to read parts 1, 2 and 3.) For the first 25 years of my walk with God, I didn’t read a devotional book. I didn’t see a need to when I had the Bible and…
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Prayer is at the heart of my daily devotions. “Prayer does not prepare us for the greater work; prayer is the greater work.” ~Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest Prayer is conversation between man and God. Genesis 3 indicates God walked and talked with Adam and Eve in the cool of the evening after their work was done. He…
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