You might be wondering what I’m talking about since Valerie just had a post about Inspy Romance’s 10th anniversary. Well, February is a month for anniversaries. My husband and I were married on Valentine’s Day, and we just celebrated anniversary number 48. So you may be wondering why I have a “Happy 20th Anniversary” as […]
Better For It
I was thinking this week about memories – specifically relationship memories. When my son turned one, and I realized I was expected to buy him birthday gifts a mere two weeks after his grandparents and great-grandparents (and, yeah, maybe his parents, too) had spoiled him at Christmas, I realized I needed a plan. So we […]
Montana Memories
From age four to ten, my family lived in Billings, Montana. My two youngest brothers were born while we lived there. My love for storytelling started there. After a big snowstorm, my oldest brother and I went under the back porch and picked up the lint from the dryer vent that lay on the snow. […]
A Day to Remember
Yesterday… It started with promise, my grandsons excited about the prospect of finally getting their day at the beach, my month-old granddaughter caring less about anything except having a clean diaper and a full tummy. The day did not disappoint. It almost did at times. And it threw us some curve balls. But all in […]
Christmas Memories in July by Mary Manners
I love everything Christmas…the music, decorations, gifts, family time, and wonderful themed stories. Every year when I begin to write my next Christmas story (usually as July rolls around) I am taken back to the heartwarming holiday memories of my childhood. When the subject of Christmas gifts comes up, most people think of packages wrapped […]
She Rode into the Sunset
Hola! Jolene Navarro here. If you know anything about me, you know I’m proud to be a seventh generation Texan. Part of that heritage it deeply rooting in raising and training horses. This is a picture of my great-grandparents. Hodge Crawford trained horses for the Army. As I was doing the at fact […]
Postcards from Heaven
It’s Sunday evening as I write this blog. Earlier this afternoon, I pulled out a photo album of a trip hubby and I did to England over two decades ago. He had seen a photograph this past week on Facebook and said it looked so familiar. I immediately recognized the place—we had passed through the […]
I Wrote a Letter to my Love
A few days ago my husband, Noel, and I were sitting with our two sons and their wives, reminiscing on our dating days over thirty years ago. Those were the days before cellphones and emails—a time when people still communicated with each other using the written word. ON PAPER! I’ll never forget the first letter […]
Walking in a Winter Wonderland (& E-Book Giveaway)
We’ve just come out of a heatwave here in South Africa, had a few days of glorious summer showers, and have been plunged back into another heatwave. I’d posted on Facebook that if I were a snowman, I would be a puddle. I’d like to rephrase that: “If I were a snowman, I’d be an […]
Where Love Resides
At its inception, I was drawn to this blog, Inspy Romance…with envy. I’d love to be one of their bloggers, sigh. But it was by invitation only, and Inspy already had a full complement. So I shelved the dream. You can imagine my excitement when asked to join. Ever since then, however, I’ve been plagued […]