“Nice shot.” That was the last phrase my dad would ever speak. He and my brother-in-law had taken advantage of a warm, sunny, Sunday afternoon after church to play a round of golf at dad’s favorite 9-hole golf course in the town where he resided. They walked up to the…
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What’s So Good About Friday?
4 families, 1 day. And all they want to know is, “What’s so good about Friday?”
Tales From an Active Imagination: Part 3
Chapter 3 of The Rose Garden is here! If you are new to this story or need a refresher, you can read the beginning, or chapter 2, before moving on to the post below. “Y-you’re the other driver?” I can’t believe what I’m hearing. I thought something awful had happened…
Book Review: We Hope for Better Things
We Hope for Better Things, by Erin Bartels, was published in January, but I didn’t purchase it until March when I published my post: Hot Off the Press: 5 Fiction Books on My ‘To Read’ List for 2019. According to Goodreads, I started reading this book on March 13th. I…
Tales From an Active Imagination: Part 2
I’m in the rose garden again. How did I get back here? It’s still so beautiful, still smells so sweet. But there’s another smell I hadn’t noticed before. Are there Crown Imperials somewhere around here? The odor of sulfur starts to overtake the sweet smell of the rose. It’s almost more…
Hot Off the Press: 5 Fiction Books on My ‘To Read’ List for 2019
Okay, so 2019 started two months ago, so I’m a little behind, but here are 5 books that I plan on reading that are brand new this year.
Tales From an Active Imagination
Everything is a blur. The only thing in focus is the other car; the car I hit. No, the car I smashed into. Stupid. I’m so stupid. What was I thinking?
Fiction Fridays: Excerpts from a Very Rough Draft
This excerpt is from a book that I started working on almost 10 years ago. At the moment I call the book ‘A Work of Heart.’ Perhaps that title will remain, perhaps not. It still has a lot of love to go into it before it is done, but it…