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How Horses Changed Me, Defined Me
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 stall and slamming...
Book Review: Rose of Winslow Street
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...
Of clear plastic and chance encounters
Looking back, it is easy to see the movers and shakers in your life. Those people who have affected you for the better {or for the worse.} Sometimes, you can even see how if you had diverged from your path in even the slightest way, you might have missed out on all of...
The love of horses…
"An inborn love of the horse is instinctive, quiteunreasoning, and one cannot recall any beginning of what seems to have always been there, together with a craving for perfection in the object of interest." ~Lady Ann Blunt~
Book Review: A Necessary Deception
Description: When young widow Lady Lydia Gale helps a French prisoner obtain parole, she never dreamed he would turn up in her parlor. But just as the London Season is getting under way, there he is, along with a few other questionable personages. While she should be...
Snow and sickness on Valentine’s Day
Snuggled with two 70-pound dogs on our (thankfully) new and soft couches, I guess you could say my Valentines Day wasn't typical. No strength to cook a fine meal, no groceries at all, even. But I've said it before and I'll say it again...Valentines Day shouldn't be...
Legend of the Bedouin
It was said the Creator had taken a handful of South Wind and given each newborn Arabian the power of flight without wings.
Book Review: December 1941
Description: December 1941 traces, day-by-day, the most important 31 days in the history of America’s participation in WWII, which snuffed out the lives of millions and changed history forever. From December 1, 1941, until the morning of December 7, 1941, America was...
Story Behind the Story: Fay Lamb
I've brought back the "Story Behind the Story" Series and am happy to share Fay Lamb's story about her novel - Fay is a fabulous volunteer with ACFW and I'm excited to have her on my blog! - Nicole I met Michael Hayes one cool autumn day while sitting on my porch. I’d...
“And now, the end is near…”
"And now, the end is near, and so I face, the final curtain..." - Sinatra "My Way" I'm referring to my latest manuscript, of course. This project that I started for November's Novel Writing Month has been a roller coaster of sorts - It is a book I began back in high...