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You Can/Can’t Judge a Book by its Cover, by Carole Howard
In a bookstore in Paris, all cluttered with tomes, I was looking for Madeline … for my granddaughter. (She doesn’t speak French, but she does speak Madeline.) After I found the book I wanted, I...
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Art As Inspiration by Ginger K King
My normal inspirations are strong people I’ve known or know of, seeing interesting action (no audio) or hearing interesting interaction between people, my dreams and especially music. Art is a new...
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“Ask Not…..,” by Carole Howard
If you were around when John Kennedy was inaugurated in January 1961, you can easily finish the famous statement from which the title of this piece is excerpted. For the rest of you, it’s: “Ask not...
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A Most Unforgetable Camping Trip — by Norm Brown
During the latter part of the 1980’s my sons lived at their Mom’s and spent every other weekend with me. We had some great times. If it was Spring or Summer, most of that time involved fishing and...
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Old Friends, by Carole Howard
It happened over and over: Two people introduced themselves to each other. There was a brief moment in which each reconciled the other’s older face with his or her memory of that same face 50 years...
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Dream a Little Dreamcation for Me by Sherrie Hansen
Some of my best work and most extraordinary inspirations occur when I fly halfway around the world. I’ve always been a homebody at heart – it is quite traumatic getting ready to leave the nest even...
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My Problem With Vacations by Harry Margulies
I have something in common with pretty much every person on earth – aside from being a person and living on this planet: I love vacations. Just the word itself, vacation, resonates to me like a gentle...
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Tikkun Olam, by Carole Howard
If you ever want to feel every one of your years (I was feeling 57 of them on the night in question), try to sleep in one of those smelly, orange, molded plastic chairs in an airport. Not for a nap,...
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After a trip to Foyles in London, by Sheila Deeth
Will you walk the streets of London to a bright and shiny store? Will you open up the volumes that are waiting there? And more, Will you drink a cup of coffee; Something stronger to your taste? Will...
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Quiet Gratitude, by Carole Howard
I’ve never been a fan of expressing emotion on demand, as in, “Before we eat our turkey, let’s go around the table and everyone say three things he or she is grateful for.” If people choose to speak...
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Give Me a Kiss to Build a Dream on…And My Imagination Will Make that Moment...
Forgive me for being momentarily morbid, but I’m in the middle of another long, dreary winter, and it’s time I did something to cheer myself up. Perhaps I’m being overly sensitive because my birthday...
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What’s in the Box?, by Carole Howard
About 15 of us were gathered in a hot and dusty room in Accra, Ghana. Two young Ghanaian women wearing identical purple polo shirts walked in. One of them carried a tattered cardboard box with wooden...
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Romanian Romance? by Sherrie Hansen
My husband and I are going to Bucharest for Mark’s son’s wedding in a few weeks. Every time I mention our plans in conversation, people ask me if my next novel is going to be set in Romania. I have to...
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I Expected to Like My Hiking Trip, by Carole Howard
And I did. Yellowstone National Park, with its spooky-looking landscapes of mud bubbling like pea soup, steam emerging from below, and, of course, geysers. Grand Teton National Park, home of bears,...
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This Party is So Much Fun, I Wish it Never Had to End by Sherrie Hansen
We’ve been saying a lot of goodbyes lately. Last weekend, we drove 350 miles to help Mark’s aunt and uncle celebrate 50 years of marriage and to see relatives who came from Mississippi, California and...
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Hope in a World Without Hope by John E. Stack
During the last week of July, I was blessed by going on my second mission trip to Show Low, Arizona. Our trip was to AICM, American Indian Christian Mission. The trip was two-fold: In the mornings we...
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Give Me a Kiss to Build a Dream on…And My Imagination Will Make that Moment...
Forgive me for being momentarily morbid, but I’m in the middle of another long, dreary winter, and it’s time I did something to cheer myself up. Perhaps I’m being overly sensitive because my birthday...
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What’s in the Box?, by Carole Howard
About 15 of us were gathered in a hot and dusty room in Accra, Ghana. Two young Ghanaian women wearing identical purple polo shirts walked in. One of them carried a tattered cardboard box with wooden...
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Romanian Romance? by Sherrie Hansen
My husband and I are going to Bucharest for Mark’s son’s wedding in a few weeks. Every time I mention our plans in conversation, people ask me if my next novel is going to be set in Romania. I have to...
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I Expected to Like My Hiking Trip, by Carole Howard
And I did. Yellowstone National Park, with its spooky-looking landscapes of mud bubbling like pea soup, steam emerging from below, and, of course, geysers. Grand Teton National Park, home of bears,...
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