12.25.09 at 10:43 pm by Kara_S
Hopping online for a quick second to wish all of my online friends a very Merry Christmas. I hope you are celebrating the real reason for the season – Christ’s birth. I also hope you are spending time making memories with family and friends.
I’ll be back sometime next week. This past week has been a real challenge – the Blizzard of 2009 dumped 13 inches of heavy wet snow in our part of West Virginia. Electricity went out early Saturday morning (12/19) and wasn’t restored at my house until Christmas Eve morning. Sometime next week I’ll share photos and lessons I learned from the blizzard.
Until then, have a wonderful, relaxing time!
12.16.09 at 8:39 pm by Kara_S
This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing The Sheriff’s Surrender Barbour Books (December 1, 2009) by Susan Page Davis
ABOUT THE BOOK
Gert Dooley can shoot the tail feathers off a jay at a hundred yards, but she wants Ethan Chapman to see she’s more than a crack shot with a firearm. When the sheriff of Fergus, Idaho, is murdered and Ethan is named his replacement, Gert decides she has to do whatever she can to help him protect the citizenry. So she starts the Ladies Shooting Club. But when one of their numbers is murdered, these ladies are called on for more than target shooting and praying. Can Gert and the ladies of Fergus find the murderer before he strikes again?
If you would like to read the first chapter of The Sheriff’s Surrender , go HERE
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
I’ve always loved reading, history, and horses. These things come together in several of my historical books.
Continue reading Introducing The Sheriff’s Surrender
12.10.09 at 7:12 pm by Kara_S
I was trekking around the Braxton County area today feeling a little discouraged that I was getting nowhere with ad sales when I got a call. It was a potential customer I had talked to last week who found out she had some advertising money opening up for 2010. She had some questions about Two Lane Livin’ so I offered to stop in since I happened to be in the area (kinda convenient since I live 45 minutes away).
This month my only job is selling ads. I’ve been trying to land some bigger / longer contracts, but the footwork just doesn’t seem to be paying off. I’m wondering how I’ll pay the mortgage and have $$ left for Christmas and a trip to PA. In fact, just before the phone rang, I was having a self-centered pity party. After I hung up the phone with the customer, I kicked myself for doubting that my needs
Continue reading The Proverbial 2×4 To The Head
12.09.09 at 7:21 pm by Kara_S
I finally feel like I’m in touch with reality. I have a real cell phone!!! (“Real” as opposed to the pay-as-you-go kind.)
And if that isn’t exciting enough … The phone actually works at my house!!! Well, as long as it’s sitting on a windowsill and I’m not expecting to get any incoming calls on it. I can send/receive texts and possibly make a call on it, but after no cell service at all, that’s pretty cool!
West Virginia is notorious for poor cell phone reception. There’s been a lot of talk on the local news about improving broadband access and cell phone reception. Five years ago, you could drive 100+ miles on I-79 and not have reception for a good portion of the trip. Not the best thing if your car broke down. And once you got on some of the back roads … um, yeah right. If we were lucky (meaning the weather was blowing
Continue reading Broadband, Cell Phones, and Roads
12.07.09 at 8:37 pm by Kara_S
I’m not a big fan of daytime talk shows, but the last few minutes of Dr. Phil’s show today caught my attention. I turned the television on ready to scan the channels for something to listen to in the background while I made dinner. What Dr. Phil was saying stopped me dead in my tracks. I grabbed a pencil and used envelope to scribble it down. This isn’t verbatim, but close …
If you have been cheated on, it was not your fault. If your spouse cheats on you, they make that decision. It is the spouse’s fault through immaturity, lack of impulse control. It is not your fault.
Just over three months ago, I shared that I was walking through uncharted waters and dealing with a divorce. One of the things that I’m grateful for is that I never felt like my ex-husband’s actions were my fault. I’m not saying I was completely innocent, but he
Continue reading What I Heard On Dr. Phil
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