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Stories: fictional, historical, biographical. Devotional thoughts. Writing tips. Helps for home and hearth.
~ Holly Bebernitz
31 Days of Blogging
I have two main goals for 2020. One is to give my 30-year-old house a face lift. The other is to resist the desire to stay in the shadows and “just write.” Therefore, I am marching forth into the other arena of the Writer’s World, so necessary to success. I first joined in a challenge to “Blog for 31 Days” in March and May of this year, and have been doing so again for each month with 31 days. I hope you will join me on that journey. Here’s the weekly schedule for October:
Sundays—”S’s in Order” [a study of I Peter 5:10]
Mondays—Maintenance [keeping up with necessary facets of life]
Tuesdays—Tales [original stories]
Wednesdays—Writing [a history of my novel series]
Thursdays—Thinking Back [personal & historical events]
Fridays—Fractures [how to heal from life’s injuries]
Saturdays—Slogans [true sayings and how to live by them]
Fruit of the Spirit–Peace
Third in the list of the Fruit of the Spirit is Peace. [Galatians 5:22-23] This topic was more challenging than love and joy to pin down to a starting...
The Elusive Culprit
There are certain roles and callings for which you can prepare yourself. You can study to become a teacher or a plumber or a banker. You can prepare for...
Sit Down
Sit down. Listen to how the voice in your mind says, “Sit down,” as you read these examples. You welcome into your living room a friend you have not seen in a...
Meeting of Friends VI
Ivy Leigh, seated next to me, grabbed my arm, and yanked me from behind my chair. “Sit down,” she said, and I knew better than to argue. I had applied those...
A Truce with Stress
Monday’s topic this month is “Managing,” so when I decided Stress would be our second topic, I almost wrote: “Managing Stress” as the title. But do we ever...
Everybody Loves Moses
One of my most vivid childhood memories is listening to stories on 33 1/3 LPs on our record player. My favorite was a recording by Joseph Cotten reading the...
Words Spoken in Prayer
“Oh, what peace we often forfeit. Oh, what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.” Prayer: a devout petition, a...
Fruit of the Spirit–Joy
The Fruit of the Spirit—Joy We continue our discussion of the Fruit of the Spirit [Galatians 5:22-23] with the second attribute in the list: Joy. John 16:20,...
Dolley Madison
Dolley Payne was born in the Quaker community of New Garden, North Carolina, on May 20, 1768. Her parents had moved to New Garden in 1765 from their...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
