Jolene Navarro’s Top 5 Reasons to Love a Cowboy Hello, Jolene here on this fine Friday morning. I grew up in the Texas Hill Country and around cowboys of all kinds. There are the ones that work the land and would rather be out in the cold than locked in a warm comfy office. Then […]
Spring: New Life and New Changes
Spring is my favorite season. Not only does it bring warmer weather, but it means the appearance of bluebonnets, one of my favorite flowers. Every time I see a patch of them on the side of the road, it brings a smile to my face. Unfortunately, we don’t have a lot of them in the […]
Love in a Small Town
Hello, Jolene Navarro checking in from the Texas Hill Country. I love life in a small town. People know people. They know who your grandmother was, your second cousins and siblings. You belong. You have a history. You’re part of a story. You know why the locals call the intersection at HWY 46 and Herff […]
Keep Moving, Keep Walking
Jolene Navarro here, checking in from the Texas Hill Country. We have rolled into month two of a new year and today is Monday. The first day of a new week! As a writer, I spend a great deal of time in front of the computer. I also teach art downtown San Antonio which is an […]
Tree of Life by Jolene Navarro
Hola, Jolene Navarro, checking in from the Texas Hill Country. I had planned to tell you about the Tree of Life project my students and I are working on for the celebration of San Antonio’s three-hundred-year anniversary. Many cultures use trees as symbols of life, roots that we need in order to grow, to grow […]
For those that Trust in the Lord
Hello, Jolene Navarro checking in from the Texas Hill Country. I love dancing in the rain. I strive to find peace in the eye of the storm. But sometimes the smile is fake, the heart is broken, and the knees are bruised. There are times when burdens feel too heavy to carry […]
Book Recommendation ~ Looking Glass Lies by Varina Denman plus #Kindle #Giveaway
Book Description: A poignant and relatable novel, Looking Glass Lies captures the war women wage against themselves, and the struggle to see beauty reflected in a mirror not distorted by society’s unrelenting expectations. For most of her adult life, Cecily Ross has compared herself to other women—and come up short. After a painful divorce from […]
Hello from Texas and a #Giveaway
This is my first post with Inspy Romance and I’m really excited to be a part of this wonderful blog. Since I am so new here, I thought I’d tell you a little about how I became an author. Truthfully, I’ve loved to write for as long as I can remember. Even when I […]
Oh! The Places We Can Go!
To travel through space and time is as easy as opening a book. If the author has done their job well the setting creates a beautiful stage that could only happen in this place and time. An environment surrounds the characters in a subtle way that shapes who they are and why they react the […]
A Texas Hill Country Thanksgiving
Hello, Jolene Navarro here today. With another Thanksgiving behind us I like reflecting on my blessings. Ten Thanksgiving ago my sisters and I lost our mother. We lost our father ten years before that. They loved family and enjoyed every holiday. Growing up we made the rounds to visit loved ones across the Texas Hill Country. Through my […]