History, Real Life and Faith
Davalynn Spencer returns to 1886 Colorado with The Columbine Bride in The 12 Brides of Summer Collection. The Columbine Bride is a sequel to her Christmas novella and features a character who demanded his own story. “While I wrote The Snowbound Bride, I became intrigued by a secondary character, Buck, the uncle who helped raise my hero, Nate Horne. Buck…
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Even though I grew up in Southern California, I never gave a thought to wearing a sunbonnet. In those days, we frolicked in the sunshine and watched our hair sun-bleach and our skin turn brown. Some of us got freckles but no one would be caught dead in a sunbonnet. It was different long ago. My first introduction to the…
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For romance lovers, The Honey Bride by Diana Brandmeyer is a sweet addition to The 12 Brides of Summer. Set in the spring following Diana’s The Festive Bride, it follows the fortunes of a young couple in 1887 Trenton, Illinois. Kate’s life spirals into difficulties when her father is killed during a severe storm. She and her brother and grandmother try to make…
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With summer upon us, I’m remembering the year my husband scuttled his submarine career to play with his children. He’d been out to sea for long periods of time as chief engineer of the oldest nuclear submarine in the Atlantic Ocean. Our boys were young, but he was conscious of the passage of time. A successful engineer in a challenging…
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With the publication of The 12 Brides of Summer in book form, you can now read Michelle Ule’s The Sunbonnet Bride on an actual page. Instead of in pixels! A sequel to her 12 Brides of Christmas story, The Yuletide Bride, The Sunbonnet Bride revisits the community of Fairhope, Nebraska during the summer of 1875. The players are all the same, except for…
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I spoke on May 21, 2016 on how to be blessed at a local luncheon of the Lutheran Women in Missions League (LWML). Here are my remarks based on Luke 11:27-28: “Blessed is the mother who gave you birth and nursed you. He [Jesus] replied,’blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and obey it.’” Context: In the verses preceding this…
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