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- Long Time No Post – Spent All Our Time Having Fun with Family – But Then Moved on and Parked Here in Louisiana – View of the Bayou – Simple but Adequate RV Park – Staying Longer than Scheduled – Again Diverging from Our Original Plan –
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Books Books – I Read – I Read – And I Wrote the Novel – Buddy for David – Key Words – Crime – Family – Hope – Despair – Adventure – Boy – Dog – Ex Convicts – Love – Courage – Victory – Rich in Action Scenes and Dialogue – Movie to Be –
Boy David Anderod Canine Friend Buddy Unexpected Unwelcome Traumatic Event Family in Distress Bart and Kepper – Child Abduction – Simple Prayer of Captive Boy David Three Days in the lives of David, his family, his captors, law enforcement officers, … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Buddy for David, Novel
Tagged Action Scenes, Adventure, Author, Boy, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Crime, Despair, Dialogue, Dog, Ex Convicts, Family, Hope, Movie to be, Novel
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Beautiful Day to Travel on Interstate 40 through New Mexico – Albuquerque Was Our Next Stop – All Was Well until It Wasn’t – The Jeep Would Not Start – AAA to the Rescue – But Our Trouble Was Not Over Yet –
Steve and I have been traveling since April 17. We headed north for Flagstaff, Arizona, and it was cold. We continued west to Holbrook, Arizona, and it was cold. We should have expected it, but we didn’t. We were uncomfortably … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Albuquerque, Amarillo, Arizona, Author, Carol Ann Hoel, Dead Battery, Flagstaff, Holbrook, Jeep, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Santa Rosa, Texas, Traveling
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Perspective
Stretching ourselves again – Lord – Leaving our comfort zone …. How I’ve settled here – Loving sameness – Loving stillness – Sometimes seeing the day we leave Our campsite as the day We launch our home on wheels … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir, Photos, Poetry
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Comfort Zone, Faith, Horizon, Lord Jesus, Motorhome, No fear, Novel, Perspective, Point of View, RV, Suspense, Unknown
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Luxury Campsite (well, you know, relatively speaking) – We Will Leave Mid April – Return Next Winter – Few Sites Offer as Much Area for Patio – We Will Miss This – But We Will Have FUN Doing It –
Lots of room under our awning with shade screen. The canopy behind is also ours. We have eight lawn chairs, a long table. The Weber grill in the background is also ours. Steve grills our foods out there whenever we … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged 2017 Tour, Author, Booking, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Complicated, Grapefruit Tree, Kindle, Luxury campsite, Motorhome, Novel, Reservations, RV, Suspense, Weber grill
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What Genre Do You Read – I Like Suspense – I Read Suspense – I Write Suspense – Buddy for David – Suspense –
Novel: Buddy for David – Having a child go missing would be any parent’s worst nightmare. Yet, this is what happened to the Anderod family on a clear day in July, 1994. Their eight-year-old son David disappeared. The same day … Continue reading
Posted in Book Review, Books, Buddy for David
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Faith, Hope, kidnapping, Mystery, Novel, parents, Pyrenees, Rachel, Reading, Suspense, Young Adult, Young David
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Why Are These Sticking to the Grill – Says My Hubby – Brush Them with Oil Before You Turn Them – Say I – Yellow Squash Sliced and Oiled – Tasty – Steve Grills – I Love It –
We have it worked out perfectly. I prepare it and Steve grills it. This time I sent him out the door with a small bowl of garlic infused oil to slather on the slices of yellow squash. This keeps it … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Cooking Techniques and Shortcuts, Food, Memoir
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Crock Pot, Garlic Infused Oil, Grilling, Grilling Yellow Squash, Meatloaf, Meatloaf Grilled, Meatloaf ingredients, Old Recipes, Raspberry Pastry, Suspense genre, Yellow Squash
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Why Do Readers Choose to Read Several Books by the Same Author – I Researched this Issue – What Did I Find – We Do This because We Like the Author – BUT We Don’t Know the Author – Do We – What Do We Discover about an Author by Reading the Author’s Writing – The Author’s VOICE –
I personally have read many novels. When I want another novel to read, I’ll often look specifically for books written by authors I already know I like. If I cannot find a book written by one of those familiar authors, … Continue reading
Being Who Am I – Am I Who I Was Meant to Be – The Answer to the Question Is …
I’ve written a book, but that is not who I am, yet it is part of who I am, because my personal background and experiences are undetectably imbedded into the words of its pages. I can articulate who I am … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis, Memoir, Thought, Writing Fiction
Tagged Author, Buddy for David, Carol Ann Hoel, Christian novel, Crime Novel, Employee, Grandmother, Great Grandmother, Identity, Mother, Novel, Who am I, Who I was meant to be, Wife, Writer
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Fiction Writers Learn What They Need to Know to Create Great Fiction – Understand the Issue of Point of View (POV) and Write Fiction with Excellence –
Authors choose the point of view (POV) that works best for their stories. Understand the POV issue and tell your story skillfully from the best point of view for its presentation. As a result, you will produce clear and understandable fiction. Personally, … Continue reading
AUTHOR LACKS aBilitY to HAWK her bOOk!
YES. That would be me. No, that would be I. I would be the one, I mean, the author standing on the sidelines not knowing what to do next. She is me. No I am she. Well, she knows what … Continue reading
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Tagged Advertise, Author, Blessings, Book, Buddy for David, Pray, website
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To Souls Longing for a Savior
To one who cannot find his way I say look at the stars how they shine Look at the sun and the moon They have a master Who keeps them tuned To one who cannot find the truth I say … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Poetry
Tagged Author, Care, Creator God, Evil, Find the Way, Lamb Slain, Lies, Master, Moon, Rule wind and sea, Ruler, Savior, Shrivel and Die, Souls, Stars, Strength, Sun, Tired, Truth, Weak
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