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Final Proposed Cover for Hard Love: A California Memoir and Another Excerpt From the Text

I apologize as I was supposed to post this two days ago. We drove a red Honda CRX when we lived in California. After my daughter read a draft copy of the book, the description and stories of the Ortega Highway left the strongest impression on her and she created this cover art from aContinue reading “Final Proposed Cover for Hard Love: A California Memoir and Another Excerpt From the Text”

Cover Art by Tebben Lopez for Hard Love (working title) plus an excerpt from Chapter 3

The Ortega Highway, State Route 74, is a winding snake of a road. It climbs up the mountains from just above sea level in San Juan Capistrano to an altitude of over 4000 feet before descending into Lake Elsinore, where they claim their own Lock Ness-type monster. Los Pinos sits at the summit. San JuanContinue reading “Cover Art by Tebben Lopez for Hard Love (working title) plus an excerpt from Chapter 3”

I was reminded today of the power of God’s Word, specifically Jeremiah 29:11. So here is an excerpt from my third memoir, Hard Faith, due out the summer of 2021. Chapter 16-Three Weeks in Peru- describes the miraculous healing of our daughter after she was hit by a double decker tourist bus.

  Chapter 16                                                        Three Weeks in Peru It’s a beautiful day in Fairfield County Connecticut on July 13, 2016: bright sunshine, clear blue sky and not a cloud to behold. It reminds me of when the world stopped turning on September 11, 2001. Now this might seem like a trite beginning to this story, evenContinue reading “I was reminded today of the power of God’s Word, specifically Jeremiah 29:11. So here is an excerpt from my third memoir, Hard Faith, due out the summer of 2021. Chapter 16-Three Weeks in Peru- describes the miraculous healing of our daughter after she was hit by a double decker tourist bus.”

New Titles For Book 2 (Hard Love) and Book 3 (Hard Faith)-For Today’s Remembrance, I Offer Chapter 8 From Hard Faith-911

Chapter 8                                                                      911 I’m in the field that Tuesday morning with the G car doing a home visit in Danbury with a guy who pled guilty to a conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit currency. Dan is a middle age single white male with no kids living alone in his deceased parents’ home. It’s a fairlyContinue reading “New Titles For Book 2 (Hard Love) and Book 3 (Hard Faith)-For Today’s Remembrance, I Offer Chapter 8 From Hard Faith-911”

Chapter 1 from Out West for AnnMarieR.

 “I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do.” — Romans 7:15  “I should have been a pair of ragged claws. Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” — T.S. Elliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Out West: A CaliforniaContinue reading “Chapter 1 from Out West for AnnMarieR.”

My third memoir, Back East, has also been accepted for publication!

I am so grateful for my publisher, Wipf and Stock, for giving me a chance as a new author and providing me with a platform to share the amazing Mercy, Grace, and healing power of the Lord. Out West should be out before Christmas and Back East by Spring 2021. Look for more preview excerptsContinue reading “My third memoir, Back East, has also been accepted for publication!”