Tag: inspiration
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Sunday at Middlemay Farm
“To love our neighbors as ourselves means to see that we are worth loving, and those around us are too.” Jonathan Merritt The Tenafly Road Series
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Are You a Phony?
Megyn Kelly the former anchor turned morning show host recently recalled a conversation with Roger Ailes who told her she had an “authenticity problem.” Whether you agree or disagree with her perceived politics is not what I care about here. What troubled me instantly was the sense that a growing number of people (including myself)…
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COVER DESIGN: Interview With Samantha Hennessy (part one)
One of the joys of independent publishing is finding a cover designer who “gets” your work. Samantha Hennessy at SAMANTHA HENNESSY DESIGN is the IT GIRL for me. Her cover for my latest novel THE DEW THAT GOES EARLY AWAY is a lush, velvety dream (I’ve had people at book fairs gush over it). A…
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“Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.” J.S. Bryan
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.” William Butler Yeats “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” George Bernard Shaw
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Who says women couldn’t do anything in the 19th century? Not Isabella L. Bird. Ladies and gents, listen up. Here’s a story full of spirit. Dear Miss Bird was a sickly soul, but despite her weakness, she charged ahead endeavoring to see the world and write about it. And so she did. As simple as…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
Don’t you just love finding musty old paperback treasures for fifty cents? The American Western Novel drew me in since its title has two of my favorite words in it–American and Western. Both words often get a bum rap and I tend to like anything that’s undervalued or misunderstood. Yeah, our government sucks, but I…