History, Real Life, and Faith
YMCA secretaries worked in unusual ways during WWI? The spiritual rewards may have been profound, but the physical cost was high. According to Sir James Barrett of the British YMCA: “The business of the YMCA is to provide comfort by personal service over and above military necessaries for the men who are well. “The Red Cross Society attends to the…
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Have you ever needed to shout in public? You know, stand up and ask for attention from a group of total strangers? People stop and stare, then shrug and go on their way. But some listen and act. Whenever I’ve shouted, relief has been the result. The first time happened many years ago when this Navy wife rode a car, train, airplane…
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Why one Navy family needed a copy of The Hunt for Red October
You already know the value of regular exercise, but I’m going to explain how exercise has been so good for this particular writer’s body. In late 2009, my hands stopped working effortlessly. Simple things I’d done my whole life hurt, badly. I couldn’t turn doorknobs without pain. Scissors were a nightmare. I could no longer hold a needle well enough…
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The woman who teaches my exercise class had her eye on me yesterday. “You need to keep your mind engaged on what you’re doing here, not on what’s happening after you leave class,” she said. I laughed. I’m notorious for missing a step because while my body is dancing zumba, my mind is often elsewhere. I’ve written before about the…
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Are you on Goodreads? How do you use it? Does it feel like just one. more. social media thing to keep track of in your free time? Or is it a helpful tool? I’m of mixed mind, but I do use it in four ways: 1. As a research tool While I was working on my World War I novel,…
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