What is it about small towns that hold so much appeal? Maybe nothing for you. I know some people prefer big cities, but crowds, cars, and chaos exhaust me. I grew up in a series of small-ish towns. Nothing as small as Bell Buckle, Tennessee (under 600 people) or Volcano, California, where we moved from. Our little population sign coming …
When You Come to a Fork in the Road…
It was on our second day driving home from California when Chris announced, “I can’t wait to be back to our old routine.” I concurred. He had flown out to northern California on September 1st, so by the time we pulled into our driveway in Tennessee on Friday afternoon, he’d been gone for twenty-five days—nearly a month. I’d flown out …
Sold for a Song
Never in my life have I attended an estate sale. Even “garage sale-ing” (as my daughter calls it) hasn’t been part of my M.O. It’s not that I have anything against them, I’m just not a shopper by nature, unless I’m looking for something specific. Although, I do love a good deal. In fact, my sweet mother-in-law taught me an …
Quite a Day
It was only seven in the morning and already it had been quite a day. I sat on a stairway tread to await my ride to the airport, my heart beating a staccato, bum-bump, bum-bump, bum-bump. Rubbing my face, Anna Nalick’s voice singing the chorus, breathe, just breathe from her old song, “Breathe 2 am,” ran through my head. I …
My Sweet Irish Twin
Have you ever heard of Irish twins? I never thought much of it until I read the term the other day. It originated in the 19th century and was a derogatory moniker, focused on Irish Catholics, to describe two children born of the same mother within a year of each other. If I had been born nineteen days earlier, my …
Providential
Although Providence is Book 3 in the Apple Hill Series, I actually wrote it first. And second. And third. And then I did massive amounts of editing and rewrites before I sent it to my publisher (Celebrate Lit) last April. Chip MacGregor, well-known literary agent, spoke at a writer’s conference I attended years ago and said most authors have to …
Fool’s Gold
Tell me I’m not the only person out there to ever get a little head-slap from God. It not only hurts (emotionally), but it’s humiliating, as well. That moment when the Holy Spirit unveils my eyes to my failure, and I hang my head in shame. Why does it always come as such a shock? One would think I’d be …
Review of Katherine’s Arrangement
About the Book Book: Katherine’s Arrangement Author: Blossom Turner Genre: Christian Historical Fiction Release Date: August 4, 2020 Marrying him is her only choice to save her family, but Josiah Richardson isn’t at all the man she expected. Katherine William’s family was left destitute when their home was burned to the ground by Yankee soldiers, so the ready solution presented …
The Nut Doesn’t Fall Far From the Tree
Do you remember your high school physiology class? These days, the kids might be learning about genetic mutations and how to clone DNA, but when I was in high school, we learned about heredity. The dictionary defines heredity as the passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another. I find it fascinating to know that …
A (Good Enough) Love Story
Are you one of those people who hold week-long celebrations for your birthday? Or, maybe you prefer to have a birthday month. I’m not inclined to celebrate a day let alone a week, but every year, my husband and I acknowledge this week (July 31st to August 6th) as our anniversary week. You might wonder why that is—or not—but I’m …
