Someone sent me a humorous list of reasons we “owe” our mothers. It made me laugh and cringe because I’ve been guilty of a few sayings that were under fire. When one of my three children threw a tantrum in a public place (which didn’t happen often), I would lean down and say, “Do you …
I didn’t go to the Fourth of July fireworks display this year. Tired, I stretched out on the downstairs sofa. It was almost ten o’clock before the distant pop of fireworks came. I went outside and stood in the cool night air watching the sparkling fire-flowers going off over the fairgrounds a mile away. Sometimes …
Rick and I recently returned from an amazing Princess cruise-and-land tour of Alaska. Fantastic! Before sailing away on the Diamond Princess, we had a day to ferry over to Victoria and see amazing Buschart Gardens. I hesitate to check it off my bucket list because I’d love to go back! Check off one more experience. …
The last section of Her Daughter’s Dream (before the epilogue) takes place in a house on the California coast. Rick’s parents lived on the hillside of Jenner-by-the-Sea over-looking the Russian River as it flowed into the Pacific Ocean. This is the house I describe in the story. Our family gathered in Jenner as often as …
There will be a book signing Saturday, October 23rd from 2-4pm at Family Christian Book Store in Santa Rosa, California. Hope to see you there!
Rick and I had a wonderful time in the south with friends from Tyndale as we visited book stores and met readers in Birmingham, Huntsville, Cleveland, Knoxville, Pigeon Forge, Asheville, and Spartanburg. It was our first time in Alabama and Tennessee and our second in the Carolinas — and we loved the southern people, hospitality, …
When I finished Her Mother’s Hope and Her Daughter’s Dream, I was exhausted. I had enjoyed the work, but felt in desperate need of a rest. It’s my nature to want to jump into another project, and I had three ideas swimming in my head, like frogs in a race to a single lily pad. …
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This is Francine’s daughter, Shannon. As you may know, my mom is on a book tour right now. She asked me to give a great big “Thank You!!!” to all of her readers, because Her Daughter’s Dream is a New York Times Best Seller!!! She couldn’t have done this without you.
Tomorrow is a big day for me. The second half of Marta’s Legacy – Her Daughter’s Dream — will be released and the rest of the family saga will be told through the eyes of Hildemara’s daughter, Carolyn, and Carolyn’s daughter, May Flower Dawn. Marta, of course, is still a central influence in the continuing …