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Category: Word Writing – Dream Casting

  • Code Switching

    Code Switching: I ran across this term in the book I am reading about a church. “Have you ever found yourself adjusting the way you talk or behave when transitioning…


  • Who was Franz W. Voigt?

    Many years ago, my father pointed out one pretty picture in his collection of oil and water paintings at our farm and told me to take care of it. I…


  • Done Running, Chapter Four *Sigurd’s letter to Meryl Wynatt

    Letter #1  On the first envelope, the cancellation date was 1937, with a number of smudged cancellation postmarks. I’d need a magnifying glass to read them. There were three different-colored…


  • We Don’t Get Old In A Vacuum

    NURSING HOME SERMONS Abraham breathed his last and died in a ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.                   Genesis…


  • Let the Secrets Die, on Amazon

    https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/s/ref=is_s_ss_i_0_19?k=let+the+secrets+die&sprefix=let+the+secrets+die Read about Andi Wittwer on APG news. http://www.apg-wi.com/spooner_advocate/news/local/author-to-talk-about-let-the-secrets-die/article_a977a4bc-4514-11e6-b217-87618a468638.html Wittwer will introduce her new book, “Let the Secrets Die,” the first in the Jewell Johnson Mysteries series. She also will…


  • Define Character

    Character is what defines you as a human being. It’s what people see in you.  It’s what people will say about you when you turn your back or after you…


  • Is That a Crown of Glory on Your Head?

    “Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained by a righteous life.” Proverbs 16:20 I was downtown yesterday at the Fall Festival and a lady I saw had…


  • Chapter Eight, Done Running

    Because I Could Not Stop For Death   Emily Dickenson Since then – ‘tis Centuries – and yet Feels shorter than the Day I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward…


  • What, Me Worry?

    Do you worry excessively? That’s not healthy.


  • Let The Secrets Die – Is Done

    My book, “Let The Secrets Die“, the first of a three volume set called The Jewell Johnson Mysteries – is back from the publisher and I am picking up them up tomorrow.…


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