by Nicole | Mar 5, 2012 | Writing
At this past OCW conference and ACFW meeting last Monday, author Lauraine Snelling spoke on the stories of life and how those play into making your writing real. This lead me to stop and think about my own life and my own writing. The drafts I wrote in high school are...
by Nicole | Mar 2, 2012 | Book Reviews
Description: Ostracized by her tribe because of her white father, Lizzie Dawson lives alone in the mountains of Alaska, practicing the ways of her people even as she resides in the small cabin her father built for her mother. She dreams of reconciling with her...
by Nicole | Feb 29, 2012 | History
I officially started “dating” my now husband. It was Leap Year, 2004. I now believe good things happen on Leap Day. On Leap Year Day, 2008, my then-boyfriend proposed to me. Yes. Good things happen. (But no, we did not think a four-year long engagement to...
by Nicole | Feb 27, 2012 | Horses, Writing
Horses defined me long before I was even born. As a child, my mother was a horse owner and my father…sometimes was forced to clean his sister’s horse’s stall. (One of my favorite family stories is of him getting frustrated at having to clean the...
by Nicole | Feb 24, 2012 | Book Reviews
Description: The last thing Libby Sawyer and her father expected upon their return from their summer home was to find strangers inhabiting a house that had been in their family for decades. Widower Michael Dobrescu brought his family from Romania to the town of...
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