We’re in the season of Lent, a great time to reflect on the value of forgiveness. Aside from being instructed to forgive one another, it turns out that there are health benefits to forgiveness. My historical fiction about Mary Brewster is ready to be introduced to the world, which is keeping me busy. Heads up – watch your e-mail inbox for a link to where you can get a special introductory pre-book launch special deal […]
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Thanksgiving History
As we approach Thanksgiving 2022, it is time to again set the Thanksgiving History record straight. The Pilgrims were not the first Americans to have a period of thanks for an abundant harvest, nor did they invite the Natives to join them. Many Indigenous North American communities had their own traditions of giving thanks for a fall harvest centuries before the Mayflower sailed into Cape Cod Bay. The Natives who gathered with the English settlers in […]
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Graduation Musings
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven. (Ecclesiastes 3:1) I’m in Graduation Musings mode this week. May 14, 2022 two family young adults, plus the fiancé of one of them, will flip tassels from one side to the other. That brings to an end a steady stretch of family members in school dating back to 1999 when the oldest of this generation started kindergarten. The break from classes […]
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