Real Life is Better Than Fiction

To get you all in the Christmas mood this Flashback Friday, here is a little Christmas story from the past involving my brother and one of my sisters.   For some reason, Billy always held a special place in his heart for Sarah.   Maybe it was because she was the youngest and he was the oldest.   I really don’t know.             Anyway, Sarah loved it when M & M’s came in a new color:   green.   She would always pick out as many green ones as she could find.   We all let her because she couldn’t have been more than three or four years old.   She was cute then.             One day all the green M&M’s began disappearing!   It seemed like there were hardly any, if any at all, in the bags that Grandma brought us.   Most of us didn’t think too much about it; we just wanted candy.   Chocolate was a staple in our hou...

I hope you are all enjoying the Ruby Christmas story so far. I also hope you are following the picture contest where you can win a prize. All you have to do is compare the pictures and see how they are different. You can find all the details on the WIP blog. Here is my picture. Do any of you recognize the location? Read the chapter to find out where Ruby is today. My chapter is featured today on the WIP blog . Please follow the link to read the continuing story.

Of all the Christmas decorations in my home I think my favorite is a basket of books. These aren’t just any books. These are special Christmas books that we only get out at Christmas time.   When the kids were little we would buy at least one new Christmas book each year and each day in December we would read one of those books to help us celebrate the holiday season. If you look too closely at the picture you will see that some of our books are a little worse for wear. I guess that's a sign of a well-loved book! That basket has pretty much collected dust last couple of Christmases as the kids are all too old to sit on my lap or cuddle up on the couch with the quilt and read book after book. In time, as grandchildren are added to our family, those books will once again be responsible for hours of enjoyment. Until then, I want to share some of my favorites with you. I've made it convenient for you by creating links for all of the books. If you see one you like, simply...

Last year I had the privilege of being part of a Christmas story that was written by several different authors. We were Each given the basic premise of the story and that we wrote her chapters on her own. After that some amazing editors of the story altogether weaving the chapters making fit as if they had been written by only one author. That story was entitled "The Christmas Tree Treasure Hunt". You can find that story from Amazon by following the link below. This year I once again have the opportunity to take part in writing a chapter for a new Christmas story. This story is entitled "A Ruby Christmas. " If you enjoyed blasters Christmas story I think you will enjoy this year's just as much. Today is the first chapter of "A Ruby Christmas."  You can find the first chapter by following this link .  Come back each day to read the next chapter of "A Ruby Christmas."  You can share the links with all of your friends who like to rea...

The bathroom may not be a topic may people choose to write about, But…not everyone has my bathroom. There was a game going around on Facebook where someone gave you a number and you were supposed to write down that many things that people don’t know about you. I’m a fairly open book and don’t have any deep dark secrets. I couldn’t think of ONE thing that people didn’t already know about me let alone nine. So, I turned the game around and had people tell me things that maybe not everyone knew about me. They came up with a couple of good ones. Nothing overly revealing. Except for…”You have a public bathroom in your house.” Yup, apparently my bathroom is the place to see. Believe it or not, people stop by to my house just to use my bathroom. Is my bathroom uber fancy? No. Is it spotless? Most definitely not. Why do people stop just to use my bathroom? When you gotta go, you gotta go…I guess. But then there was the friend who stopped so she could take a shower. It was the mi...

It is time for a FIRST Wild Card Tour book review! If you wish to join the FIRST blog alliance, just click the button. We are a group of reviewers who tour Christian books. A Wild Card post includes a brief bio of the author and a full chapter from each book toured. The reason it is called a FIRST Wild Card Tour is that you never know if the book will be fiction, non~fiction, for young, or for old...or for somewhere in between! Enjoy your free peek into the book! You never know when I might play a wild card on you! Today's Wild Card author is: Jerry B. Jenkins and the book: I, Saul Worthy Publishing (August 27, 2013) ***Special thanks to Leeanna Case for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jerry B. Jenkins is a New York Times best-selling novelist (Left Behind Series) and biographer (Billy Graham, Hank Aaron, Walter Payton, Orel Hershiser, Nolan Ryan, Joe Gibbs and many more), with over 70 million books sold. His writing has appe...

Terri with her heroine Shira I am pleased to have Terri Gillespie, author of She Does Good Hair  here with me today. I have read her book that recently came out on Kindle and I loved it. Here are a few questions to help you get to know her a little bit and find out more about her book.     If you were to go to the Hair Mavens Salon, who would you want to cut your hair and why? Oh, golly. Don’t tell Shira, but I would go to Kathy for a cut and style. Why? Because Kathy is known for her cuts and styles. If I wanted color to die for—pun intended—then definitely Shira.   Why did you feel that you had to tell the Hair Mavens story? First of all, the mavens wouldn’t let me sleep. All that yakking in my head and hair teasing. Goodness. During a brief stint in sales, my specialty was salons. Since then, I’ve always loved that culture. It’s arguably one of the most intimate environments for women. A hair salon was a fun way to show how muc...