Real Life is Better Than Fiction

Review of The Justice Game By Randy Singer To some people in today’s world, the legal system is a game. Greed is the idea behind the game in Randy Singer’s story. After a horrific shooting, leaving a woman and her unborn child dead, the husband decides to sue the gun manufacturer, sighting neglect on their part to monitor gun dealers The two lawyers that go head to head in this case, have their own struggles. Those struggles are not made any easier when an unknown source begins blackmailing them into doing what he wants, which is not to settle this case. Kelly Starling is a young, but not a rookie lawyer. She thought no one knew her secret until she received an email with instructions from Luthor.  Jason Noble is a rookie lawyer, with a flair for dramatics. He thought his secret was safe with only a couple people who he trusted. Apparently not, after he received his own email from Luthor.    Both Kelly and Jason have choices to make. Do they do wh...

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: Kathleen Y'Barbo and the book: Sadie's Secrets Harvest House (2014) ***Special thanks to Ginger Chen of Harvest House for sending me a review copy.*** ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Bestselling author Kathleen Y’Barbo is a multiple Carol Award and RITA nominee of fifty novels with almost two million copies of her books in print in the US and abroad and nominations including a Career Achievement Awa...

Life is a rat race. So many of us strive to work hard to get that promotion at work only to realize it comes with no pay increase but plenty of headaches. Some of us take on the burdens of the entire world hoping to fix everything that’s wrong. Then there are those of us who just struggle to keep up with the day to day activities and nuances:   work, schooling for the kids, paying the bills, car problems, work problems, homework problems, trying to keep some semblance of order in our house. The list could go on and on. I want this year to be different. I want to jump off the treadmill that gives me only one direction and one speed to run. I want to slow life down and enjoy. I want to be still before God and get to know Him on a level I never knew Him before. I can’t do that with all the craziness that’s going on around me. There will be days I don’t answer the phone, respond to emails, or even get dressed. Last year my theme was “Christ magnified through me.” ...

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...