Holiday “To Do” List

November 11, 2013

After attending a Holiday Open House at GG?s Framed Art and Gifts in Statesville, North Carolina this past weekend, and with a chance of snow in the forecast I have begun to get the holiday jitters. After all it is only six weeks until Christmas.   Every year when I start thinking about all there […]

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Remembrances

November 4, 2013

1 Corinthians 13:12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.   November 3rd, 2013 marked the thirty-first anniversary of the passing of my daddy, Billy Thomas Martin. On a lonesome autumn night a […]

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A Pilgrimage to the Summit

October 29, 2013

Isaiah 2:3 And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord?   This past weekend my husband, Jerry and I made our annual pilgrimage to the top of Stone Mountain. The mountain covers over 14,000 acres in Wilkes and Alleghany Counties in North Carolina, […]

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Port-a-John Protocol

October 22, 2013

I am so glad to be at home today writing this blog. Twelve out of the past twenty-three days I?ve been attending fall festivals and book signings. Thankfully I have a couple of weeks reprieve. Actually I only have four more book events scheduled for the year. You can find the dates and locations on […]

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Marketing Your Writing At Festivals

October 14, 2013

I never would have thought I would some day look back at my twenty years in newspaper sales and be thankful? Selling space in a small town, tri-weekly newspaper was not the easiest thing in the world to do, but I have to admit it was probably easier than selling air space for a radio […]

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Tough as Nails

October 8, 2013

Tough as Nails   ?In honor of all breast cancer victims, survivors and their families.? ? In my early twenties while doing a self-breast exam, I felt a lump. I will never forget that feeling. My legs turned to jelly and my heart pounded so loud I could almost hear it strumming. Not me, I […]

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A Quiet Place

October 2, 2013

Matthew 14:23 After he had dismissed them, he went up on a mountainside by himself to pray?   Mark 6:31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ?Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some […]

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A Christmas Story For Sale

September 23, 2013

I am so excited! Last week my first children?s picture book arrived at my front, no, actually it was at my back basement door via a FedEx truck. I don?t know what it is about this little book that makes it so special to me. Maybe it?s because I wrote it for my granddaughter, Emma. […]

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A Christmas Story For Sale

September 23, 2013

I am so excited! Last week my first children?s picture book arrived at my front, no, actually it was at my back basement door via a FedEx truck. I don?t know what it is about this little book that makes it so special to me. Maybe it?s because I wrote it for my granddaughter, Emma. […]

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Fall Fun and Festivals

September 16, 2013

  Fall Fun and Festivals   In and around the foothills of North Carolina we are feeling the cool breeze of fall descending upon us. I simply love this time of year. The hard work of summer is over. The vegetables are preserved and ready for winter consumption. The squirrels are busy scampering around gathering […]

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