I keep hoping 50s fashions will come back in style. Women looked like women and not starving refugees or sex-trafficked teenagers looking for a john. Fifties style showed off women’s hourglass figures without showing off a lot of skin. Dresses were mid-calf full skirts, belted waists (where waists naturally are) and fitted bodices often buttoned-up …
The Christian Writers’ Guild has pulled out all the stops for this year’s Writing for the Soul Conference, February 13-16 at the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs. Featured speakers are Angela Hunt, Brandilyn Collins, James Scott Bell, Randy Ingermanson, and many more. The conference offers 72 hours of classes in four tracks: Promotion & Marketing, …
These two issues have grabbed hold of me and tear at my heart. The first came upon me through my own personal experience with abortion. Oh, how a frightened girl will swallow lies that “it will be easy and you can just go on with your life”. Maybe for some. It took me years of …
“Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you’re just fair game.”
One of the ways I visualize my characters is to post pictures of people on a bulletin board that runs along the wall to the left of my computer. I found several pictures that fit my mental image of Abra. One is of an unnamed pre-teen girl with pale green eyes and wild red hair. …
Tomorrow I have to stop procrastinating.
Christmas is over. I’m always a little down when I take the ornaments off the tree and pack away the decorations for another year. The wheels of Christmas lights are stowed away under the house along with our nativity, the dried up noble pine is on our deck, lower branches cut off so it fit …
“A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.”
Rick and I were married on December 21, 1969. It rained all day and then cleared for the evening candle-light ceremony at a small New England style church in our hometown. I am still amazed at how many family members and friends came, considering the time of year. Who in their right mind plans a …