Finding green lights for your dreams. Part of the Hawaiian Insights series. “Mom, sing the green song.” My young son would get us all to sing in the car when we were stuck at a long red light. It seemed to work, lessening the time stopped in traffic or at least getting us to laugh and giggle while we waited. As my sons have grown, now I ask them to sing the “green” song if we’re in a hurry. It’s made me more sensitive to the color green, especially since we live in a semi-arid climate without much of a…
Your Invitation To Seekerville This Friday
Returning from the ACFW conference this year, I got to sit next to Tina Radcliffe on the plane and learn about Seekerville, a great place for authors to congregate, be encouraged in the writing journey, and get tips for advancing your career. She asked me to write a blog and “The Power of the Right Turn,” When life throws you a major hurdle, how do you survive, not give up, and create a memorable moment in the midst of difficulties? will appear this Friday, January 23, 2015. Please join me for the active discussion on their blog, located here: http://seekerville.blogspot.com/…
Casting The Vision
How Do You Inspire Children To Reach For More? I sat on my son’s bed, dismayed once more with the piles of laundry “put away” by stuffing into the closet, in one huge pile. I felt like a failure, looking at cluttered toys, hardly ever used. How did we get this way? We used to have nothing. Literally, nothing, after the wildfires years ago. Yet here we are once more, with such abundance. How can I help my son become the young man he was created to be if “stuff” stands in the way? I uttered a prayer, “Please, Lord,…
Climb In The Zodiac, Ma’am!
I stared in disbelief as the safe-looking large white boat pulled out of the slip. Behind it, hidden from view, sat our black and gray zodiac inflatable boat. You know, the sleek one, like the military uses on secret operations. Not the kind a writer takes. Definitely not the writer who thought we were on the safe white boat with railings that just left. “Ma’am. I’ll help you in. Here’s your dry bag.” The Captain smiles his wide grin, a tooth missing on the right. I’m handed a bright red bag that locks for all my valuables. So, no cell…
Happy New Year!
Find a way to make the cleaning out more fun by bringing in your favorite inspiritions. Here’s some of mine. Favorite English movies ready to roll, check! Hot coffee from Kauai, check! Mug with resilient saying, check! Bins and collection areas ready, check! End-of-the-world picture from vacation, check! I’m ready to dig in and make plans for new chapters in life this year. Are you? I have 85 plus kids in my Silvers readers group finishing my first novel as beta readers. No nail biting allowed here, but I’m very tempted. So while I’m waiting, I’m cleaning out the old…
Gems Or Stinky Penguins? 10 Tips For A Resilient Christmas
“You’re going to love Christmas here!” One of my coworkers smiled broadly as we layered in ropes of South Sea pearls and artfully arranged displays of diamonds and broaches in the front windows. “But what you’ll remember most is that the penguins stink.” Another coworker chimed in. How right he was. When I was a gemologist in an upscale jewelry store, I not only experienced the dazzle of beautiful jewels, but our store also was situated right across from an indoor water feature. During the holidays it was filled with a display of live penguins. Let me just say, they…
Littworld Online Jewelry Story and Contest
I’m in second place so far, keep sending your friends to “like” the page if you enjoy the writer’s devotional with a royal and jewel twist! The contest continues until December 15th!
Anne’s Green Gable Hope
“When I left Queen’s my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does.” – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables Maybe it’s my Scottish and English heritage that stressed keeping emotions buckled in, but it really has taken some soul searching to find the right balance of understanding others and listening to God’s still, quiet voice in my life. Often it could…
Littworld Online Jewelry Story and Contest
Under the Robes This article is an entry in the MAI Devotional Writing Contest. Try your hand at a 400-word devotional to en . . . http://www.littworldonline.org/blog/2014/11/under-the-robes . . . In lieu of my regular blog this week, please visit this link for an intriguing story from my days as a gem specialist involving royals and jewels. It is also a contest, so if you like it, please press “like” with your Facebook account. With thankfulness in my heart for all the blessings in life including faith, family, hope, joy, beauty, and hugs, I wish you a warm and wonderful Thanksgiving. Bless you all!…
Lost In A Lightning Minute
Lost In A Lightning Minute. Protect your kids online with resources on my blog. It can happen so fast, guard their innocence well.
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