Published on June 25, 2020
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One of the Christmas cards caught my attention. It depicted a giant ornately decorated snowman standing in the center of a snow covered path. I live in an apartment building. Next door, there is a forest with a path that has been deliberately cut though the trees – just like that in the card!
Published on June 18, 2020
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Learning Feng Shui, writing a book, and opening a company reflecting energy-work was my formula for success.
Published on June 18, 2020
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Creative flood gates had opened within me and all I wanted to do was WRITE!
Published on June 11, 2020
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I began writing for “traditional” Catholic publications, and asking questions. I did not like the answers I received…
Published on June 11, 2020
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I never had any intention of becoming an author or speaker. But somehow, the words and stories found me. It all started when I had some thoughts about giving that began bubbling up in me. With sheer terror coursing through my body, I presented my brief message to our church congregation and…
Published on May 31, 2020
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My journey to writing was not a “Light Bulb” moment, but was, instead, a series of lanterns set beside a very long path. Lantern No. 1 was a bored 9-year-old girl who, instead of playing outside in the mosquito-laden Minnesota summer, sat at her grandmother’s wooden farm table, and wrote story after story in her […]
Published on May 21, 2020
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If it hadn’t been for a property dispute, I probably wouldn’t have written the book…
Published on May 21, 2020
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Learning all that I did from watching the downward spirals of alcoholics, I became passionate to write Drunkenland.
Published on May 17, 2020
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Becoming a published author was an unusual journey for me. At the beginning of September 2018, my parents’ dog, Toby, died. I was his primary caregiver and he died alone with me in my room. I grieved his loss for only three weeks. The dog in my life before him, Farley, was a different story. […]
Published on May 14, 2020
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My book started out on a gorgeous, sunny beach overlooking the Pacific.