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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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Blue Sky – Blue Sky – Morning Is My Favorite Time of Day –
Blue Sky – Blue Sky Blackish blue night sky Quiet Moonbeams cry All through the night Stars twinkling bright Morning brings a splash Of blue – The new day Bathed in predawn dew – Then panoramic baby blue – Purple … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Blue Sky, Family, Flu, God is good, Moonbeams, Morning, Night Sky, Predawn Dew, Prescott Arizona, Stars, virus, Winter in Arizpona, Winter in Florida
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What a Blessing to Park Our RV on Lake Erie’s Shore – From the Window at Our Breakfast Table We Watch the Sun Slip into View Each Morning over Lake Erie in Sterling State Park, Monroe, Michigan –
Sunrise officially occurred a few minutes after I snapped this photo. The colors were spectacular just before the fiery globe appeared on the horizon. I wasn’t aware that I had booked a site with this gorgeous view of Lake Erie. … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged Dawn, Family, Fiery Globe, Horizon, Lake Erie Shore, Moments before Sunrise, Ohio, Southeastern Michigan, Sterling State Park, Sunrise, Toledo
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Our First Voyage Focuses on Family – We Encountered My Family in Florida – We Are Departing from a North Carolina RV Park from Which We Visited Steve’s South Carolina Family – A Happy and Playful Time Was Had by All of Us –
Steve’s family are a delightful people to get to know. We had fun with them from the first day until the last. Steve and his grandson played air hockey and several games of pool in this bowling alley that was … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Memoir
Tagged air hockey, Billiards, Bowling Alley, Family, First Voyage, Florida, Game Rooms, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Playful People, Poconos, Pool, RV Resort, South Carolina, Three Generations
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We Visited Disney’s Animal Kingdom with My Family – Watching the Animals Graze Reminds Me that We May Rest in the Lord Knowing He Loves Us and Will Provide for Us –
We rode in a safari bus through a park that was prepared for animals from Africa. The entire day was filled with fun and many technological wonders like the 3 dimensional bug show that enabled bugs that weren’t really there … Continue reading
HAPPY THANKSGIVING – Praise to Our God for Family – Friends – and Bountiful Provision – Blessings to All –
Psalm 147:7-12 – The Bible (KJV) – Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: Who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses
Tagged Bountiful Provision, Family, Food, Friends, Praise, Praise to God, Provision, Sing Praise, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, turkey
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Home – Where Life Happens – Beginnings – the Middle – And Endings – Memories Are Made at Home –
Home is where life happens. Family, pets, the good stuff we talked about with one another and the stuff we tried to forget, it mostly happened at home. The days we remember about the people we love we frame in … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Thought
Tagged Believing, days we remember, Family, Forget, Home, Hope, Laughter, Life Happens, Memories, people we love, Pets, Silly stuff, stuff we tried to forget, times we cried, Together again
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Preview – Buddy for David – Excerpts from Page One and Page Three….
Page 1 – first sentence… On a sunny day in July of 1994 disaster hit the Anderod family as unpredictably as a bolt of lightning striking on a clear day. John loaded the rotor tiller in the bed of his … Continue reading
Buddy for David – Now In Print – See Cover Page
The day has finally arrived that my novel, Buddy for David, is in print and available on my publisher’s website. Very soon it will appear online at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Three weeks later, eBooks will be on sale, … Continue reading
Posted in Buddy for David, Promotional
Tagged Action, Book, Boy, Buddy for David, Christian Book, Emotion, Family, Kidnapper, Law Enforcement, love, Mystery, Novel, Sheriff, Suspense, Young Adult Genre
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Thanksgiving Blessings to All … Psalm 100 (The Bible)
1Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. 2Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing. 3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we … Continue reading
Posted in Bible Verses, Thought
Tagged Blessings, Creator, Everlasting, Family, Gladness, God, Intercessory Prayer, Maker, Pasture, Praise, Prayer, Service, Sheep, Singing, Thanks, Thanksgiving, Truth
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God’s Plan
One plan For His purpose (God knew all along My plan would fail) God has His plan That will not fail I will watch And Wait and Marvel as He works His plan for His purpose For He promises This … Continue reading
Featuring Short Stories…
Click the Short Story Category on the right for your reading pleasure: Letter to Mom, a story about Lauren, a precious young woman struggling to tell her mother in a letter about her relationship that has run into trouble. Her best-friend-for-life, Deb, … Continue reading
Posted in Promotional
Tagged Baby, Birthday, Boots, Boy, Change, Cinderella, Dog, Family, German Shepherd, Gift, Girl, Handicap, Hardship, Letter, love, Mother, Relationship, Short Story
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Becca
Short story in small segments. Continue reading