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Location, location…
“…where the wind comes sweeping down the plain, and the waving wheat can sure smell sweet when the wind comes right behind the rain…” Oklahoma is great to sing about but not many people set their books...
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R.S.V.P.
You never know what you might find while doing research. It’s like opening a plastic Easter egg that’s been left on the lawn. It might be full of candy. It might be full of ants. No way of knowing....
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Unshakable
Flying doesn’t terrify me. Usually I relax with a book and enjoy the quiet. Boats are fun, too. It’s exhilarating to skim the surface of the water. It’s peaceful to float aimlessly. And yet when the...
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Here She Comes…Miss Fill-In-The-Blank
Doesn’t every little girl dream of a tiara and a sash? A beautiful gown, whitened teeth and a limpid wave mean that you are someone important. You have that indescribable charm, the grace, the ability...
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The Best Ruth and Boaz Cowboy Christmas Play Ever! – Part 3
(In case you missed them earlier: Part 1, Part 2.) It was crunch time. The script had been finalized, lines memorized and my household terrorized. What was I thinking adding this undertaking to our...
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A Life of Glamour
Every adult needs a skill set that elevates them above the masses, that makes them valuable and employable. Even though I’ve chosen to stay home raising kids, when the need arises I’m confident that I...
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My One and Only Sports Injury was from Band
I am an athlete. Just kidding. I wish I was that tough, multi-vitamin-eating mom in the commercials who jogs through the park talking about how she’s good to herself, but I’m not. That’s why I took...
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How I Found Myself Hiding in a Stranger’s Closet
We take our storms seriously in Central Oklahoma. We have to. Living within 15 miles of three of the largest tornadoes mankind has ever recorded makes one cautious, but prepared. Our meteorologists...
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Caught in the Middle – Releasing March 25th But you don’t have to wait that long to get a sneak peek! Follow the Link and enjoy! Caught in the Middle Excerpt
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Breaking Up the Band…
You probably already know about our best-selling, phenomenal novella collection, A Match Made in Texas. It’s the one I shared about here… and it was just as fun to work with Karen, Mary and Carol as...
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April 19, 1995 – What Remains
Twenty years ago today I was eight months pregnant with our first child. Coy and I were young – married for less than two years – and still trying to find that happy distribution of chores, for which...
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Alfred Hitchcock fans, this is for you –
We’ve been at my parents’ the last three nights enjoying the ending of pool season. Every night we watch a giant flock of birds swarm around their bedroom chimney. There’s been some debate on whether...
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How I Lost My Sole at the Football Game
Even before the punishing Oklahoma heat breaks, we start getting geared up for football season. My sister Becky is no exception. So when she was given two tickets to OU’s opening game, she gave me a...
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Traffic and Turnpike Concerns
There will be community-wide meeting to discuss the traffic challenges we face as a growing community as well as the routes of the proposed turnpikes. We encourage all citizens available to...
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Don’t Ever Donate This to Your Church Library…
As a volunteer at our church library, I go through boxes of donations. Some boxes contain fresh-off-the-press books that were speedily read once and then shared. Other boxes are covered with dust and...
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Be the First to Welcome Louisa to Oklahoma!
It’s June 11, 1885. Lovely Lola Bell lost her job last night, and is right now checking out the stagecoach times to Fort Reno, Indian Territory. And you want to be there when she arrives! Be the first...
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Do you like to see the places you read about? If so, join me for a quick look about historic Fort Reno, the setting of “Holding the Fort” and the rest of the Fort Reno Series. I’ll be going back....
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The Courage Chronicles
Welcome to the Courage Chronicles – a Scavenger Hunt/Blog Hop where you might win 5 marvelous books and one mediocre painting! (Haha!) Here’s the skinny – Follow 5 authors as we collaborate on a...
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Celebrating the Little Free Libraries
Have you heard about the Little Free Libraries? Maybe there’s one near you, and you didn’t know about it. I didn’t know that my town has two, until I looked it up on the map. Sure enough, I found one...
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