This is a series I take no joy in writing, but the fact that I continue to receive both notes and calls from other people facing these same challenges with...
The Elusive Culprit IV
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~ Holly Bebernitz
Thursdays—Thinking Back
Personal & historical events, posted for the 31 Days of Blogging challenge.
The Elusive Culprit III
This is the third chapter in a series focusing on my mother’s journey into dementia and includes details of that deterioration. These descriptions are...
The Elusive Culprit II
This is a continuation of the story of my mother’s dementia. I will reiterate: this is an unpleasant account of decline, and of necessity will include...
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...
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...
David Brainerd
Born in 1718 to a devout Puritan family in Haddam, Connecticut, David Brainerd was orphaned at the age of 14. At twenty-one, swept up by the Great Awakening,...
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Isaac Newton is credited with saying: “If I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” He apparently adapted this idea from...
The Worth of a Neighbor
Throughout my life I have been blessed with the best of neighbors—from my childhood on Belmont Circle in Denver City, Texas, to my teenage days in the...
George Whitefield
George Whitefield was probably the most famous religious figure of the eighteenth century. Newspapers called him the "marvel of the age." Whitefield was a...
Hitherto
Here I raise mine Ebenezer, hither by thy help I’m come.And I hope by thy good pleasure safely to arrive at home.Jesus sought me when a stranger, wandering...
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.
