History, Real Life and Faith
The Western Front was the site of the worst fighting of the First World War. It refers to Germany’s western front, even though it’s located in southern Belgium and northeastern France. A fertile farmland that rolls to the English Channel, the western front remains scarred by the activities of 100 years ago. My husband and I were there on Monday….
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What sort of third grade teacher would take her students on a field trip to a nudist colony? None that I know. It was my idea. In a box belonging to my now-college student daughter, I recently found thank you notes written by classmates after an infamous field trip we took into the wilds of Mendocino County. It was the reference to keys that triggered my…
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How much cultural sensitivity do you need to have while writing a novel? My friend Kathleen read “The Gold Rush Christmas” and wrote me a note of appreciation, however making an interesting observation: “I was leery of the totem pole, when I heard you had one in the story. However, I appreciated how it was used and the fact that it…
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I had no problem writing the section of “The Gold Rush Christmas” about sailing to Alaska. I put my heroes, Samantha, Peter and Miles, on a steamer and sent them off. It was easy. I’d been sailing to Alaska myself, and like them, I slept on the top deck, ate miserable food, struggled with sea sickness, and rubbed elbows with my…
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I had no problem writing the section of “The Gold Rush Christmas” about sailing to Alaska. I put my heroes, Samantha, Peter and Miles, on a steamer and sent them off. It was easy. I’d been sailing to Alaska myself, and like them, I slept on the top deck, ate miserable food, struggled with sea sickness, and rubbed elbows with my…
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Do you have a floppy disk lying around your house? Whether they’re actually floppy or not, are you depending on those floppy disks to save all your information forever? Do those floppies house photos? Letters? Your tax records? Do you keep them in a fire-proof safe? (Have you got one big enough?) Worse. Are your old manuscripts safely tucked away…
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