A lot has been happening since my last post and I’m super excited to share my exciting last few weeks with you, but I’ve decided to do it chronilogically backwards. Starting with the last (most recent) thing first and then working my way back in time to the beginning of September when I received a ...
I Have the BEST BFFs Ever!
Dearest BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever), These are some of the first reviews on Amazon.com for my new book, Bless Your Heart: Daily Devotions to Warm Your Heart & Feed Your Soul. In the words of William Shakespeare, “I can no answer make but thanks, and thanks, and ever thanks.” I would be totally THRILLED to ...
Launch Team Winners
As I hope you know by now, the book launch celebration for Bless Your Heart: Daily Devotions to Warm Your Heart & Feed Your Soul has been in full operation mode for the past three weeks. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of my BFFs (Blessed Friends Forever) who have put forth their energy, ...
Yours For The Pickin’
I spent some marvelously refreshing time with my grands up at our Smoky Mountain cabin over the past few weeks. It was thrilling for this dyed-in-the-seersucker, perpetually sweaty Floridian to hike through the 55-degree summer morning mountain mist and encounter not-quite-ripe wild blackberries just begging to be collected within a week or two for a ...
Bless My Soul – They’re Here!
What a sensational thrill and vast relief it was this week to see my author copies of my new 365-day devo, Bless Your Heart: Daily Devotions to Warm Your Heart & Feed Your Soul, piled up like a small mountain at my doorstep! The boxes are so heavy, Spouse said we need to rent a ...
Short, But Oh So Sweet
At 5 feet, 1 inch tall, I’m generally considered a short person. They always make me stand in front for group pictures because everybody else can easily see over my head. Growing up, I was the shortest kid in my class every year until fifth grade, when my boyfriend, who came up to my nose, ...
Buying Jeans is Like Speed Dating
Okay, okay – in full disclosure, I’ve never actually speed dated. But I’ve seen enough of it on TV (and we all know if it’s on a screen of any kind it must be valid!) and heard about it from friends that I feel that I’m well versed (enough) to use it in this metaphor. ...
Social Media Anxiety
I’ve noticed a lot of my friends have been posting lately that they feel like a slave to their feelings after extended exposure to rants, rippings, and constant “bad news” in their social media inboxes. I get that. I’m sure you do too – and we trust that our “friends” will be tactful, or at ...
3 Levels of Blessing
My furry buddy, Laz the Resurrection Dog (if you don’t recall how he got that audacious name, scroll back until you find the post about his miracle, called “Near-Misses”; you’ll be glad you did!) taught me yet another spiritual lesson this week. Isn’t it wonderful how often our little fur buddies do that if we’re ...
Finding the Trap Door
Ever since I first learned to read, I was never one to turn down a good mystery. In my elementary years, I followed The Bobbsey Twins (Nan and Bert, plus their younger twin sibs Freddie and Flossie) around solving mystifying mysteries like who let the dogs out and why did the spotted cow moo? (Incidentally, ...