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Be My Valentine
There’s a small bowl on a table in our home. The bowl shows a couple who appear blissfully in love; to their side are six red hearts. When I turn the bowl over I can read where the artist has etched, “The secret of a long marriage is to put a little romance in every day.” It’s signed, “Mary.” I don’t know Mary but I’d like to meet her, and thank her for crafting the most perfect of gifts.
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I Don’t Eat Manna or Bread. Here’s Why.
Wheat and barley might have made for great bread in Biblical times, according to Ezekiel 4:9, but my doctor says that I can’t eat it. Today’s wheat is yet another of the many genetically modified food products in our diets and while many enjoy wheat, for me, it’s poison. But it wasn’t always that way. I was fine in 2003. Everyone was happy and well, even my business, by then over 20 years old, had turned the corner …
My First Novel: About Chapter 3
Today we finish the first section of our story; fittingly as October and autumn come to the NC mountains. We’ll have more questions than answers after today. Let’s read Chapter Three. Then we’ll go on, so we can eventually arrive at Tall Clover Farms.
Chapter 3: A Time for Colors and Stories
When the Adams’ children cleaned out the place, they didn’t leave much behind, just the long-forgotten shotgun Jane had hidden in the attic and four broken Adirondack chairs which were stacked in the corner of the barn.
My First Novel: About Chapter 2
Welcome back! I hope your return means you like how the book started. In the first chapter we learned some history on a parcel of land in the NC mountains .. and the people involved in it .. past and present. Now I’ll tell you what readers told me, what I plan to do about it, and then – what I was thinking when I sat down to write Chapter 2.