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Unanswered Prayers

I'm grateful for answered prayers. I'm even MORE grateful for unanswered ones!I think, dear reader, that if we could actually see what we've been spared, when God said "No", we'd be jumping up and down and shouting hallelujah. Those disappointments and set-backs? What...

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Here comes…

That Man from Stone Creek.Sam O'Ballivan will be riding in on fast horse, real soon. In some places, as early as next Tuesday. Maddie Chancellor will be on hand to give him plenty of trouble.You and I? We get to sit back, with our feet up, and enjoy the adventure.

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Update!

The lost dog's name is Scrappers, and he's the beloved and much cherished pet of a lady who had the wisdom to have a microchip implanted. He and his mama are visiting from Las Vegas, and he wandered off during a backyard celebration of some kind. After certain...

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Bunny the Divine

This is a tribute to a friend of a friend--Bunny, the Divine Dog, who 'belonged' to my good friend, Sandi. (She would tell you, I'm sure, that the reality of the situation was quite the reverse: she belonged to Bunny.) A black Lab, he died last Friday, at the age of...

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Leaving a Day Early!

I'm off to Washington D.C. tomorrow morning, bright and early, so this will be my last blog before next Tuesday morning.I am very excited to be making this trip. As I said yesterday, it's one of the perks of being a writer. A break in the long chain of mostly ordinary...

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Swamped

To those friends sending forwards--I'm deleting them. I'm up to my eyeballs in the new book, and getting ready to fly off to Washington, D.C. on Thursday morning, to attend Book Expo America. BEA is one of the perks of my job--lots of fun, wining and dining, and...

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Choice-Points

For being 'one of those days', yesterday turned out pretty okay.My daughter sent me a lovely bouquet of yellow roses in anticipation of Mother's Day, and we had a long schmooze on the telephone. She's about to graduate from UCLA's extension program in screenwriting,...

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One of Those Days

Surely you've had them.The sky is a bit overcast, and your energy is running a little low.You know nothing spectacular is going to happen, but you've still got responsibilities to fulfill.This is one of those days for me.I've decided to let that be okay.No great...

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Wild Horses

My brain is like a herd of wild horses sometimes, rushing off in every direction. Like many creative people, I am impulsive--likely to barrel ahead first, and think about it later.Resolved: I will stop, when I start feeling that wild-horse urge, and ask for the power...

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Cups and Hearts

I read the most uplifting thing the other day, in Beth Moore's "Praying God's Word". She compared the human heart to a cup--one all of us are trying to get filled.We hold it up to jobs. To alcoholic husbands. To people who are as needy as we are.Cups get broken, and...

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It’s Working!

Six and a half pounds gone, the first week on Weight Watchers! This is such a simple way to eat. No forbidden foods. Just a certain number of food points per day. I can DO this!The blog was patchy over the past week, and I apologize. It's just been wild around here,...

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Back to Basics

When I stepped on the scale Saturday morning, at Weight Watchers, I was appalled to see that I had gained back half of the weight I lost a couple of years ago. The trauma quickly passed, however, because I know I can DO Weight Watchers. I'm back on the magnificent...

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