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Family photos, how to find family photos, Google, Ancestry.com, Facebook family groups, kindness of strangers, ask people if they've got a photo

in Family Life· Writing Life

Putting a Story to a Face

Let’s put a story to a face. Take a look at the woman to the left. What color is her hair? What type of woman do you think she is? Tall? Agile? Efficient? Industrious? Is she wearing glasses? Is she, perhaps, some sort of ancient librarian? When you write historical fiction, you often choose your characters based on photos–or in…
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What to do with grief

in Life's challenges· Prayer

What to Do With Grief?

What to do with Grief?

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Fort Delaware, Civil war, gambling, prisoners of War, An Inconvenient Gamble, The Texas Brides Collection, prison escape, Civil war gambling

in Books· Historical Research· Life's challenges

Fort Delaware and the Civil War

Civil war fans often overlook Fort Delaware. It rises out of the mist of the Delaware River dividing Delaware from New Jersey. The fort is a row of granite buildings on the very slight elevation of Pea Patch Island–so named because a ship ran aground there two centuries ago and dumped a cargo of peas. The war of 1812 raised concern in…
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in Life's challenges· Writing Life

POWs, Horror and Hope

Like many, I grew up on sanitized versions of prisoner of war (POW) camps made famous by movies such as Stalag 17 or The Great Escape, not to mention the TV program Hogan’s Heroes. But some of the heroes of my childhood included the Vietnam POWs. I wore a metal bracelet with Lt. Thomas Sima’s name on it for several…
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Choosing to believe, John the Baptist, unanswered prayer, Jesus, Jordan river, faith, God's prism, seeing life through God's eyes

in God's love· God's Prism

Choosing to Believe and John the Baptist

Did John the Baptist have to choose to believe in Jesus? The man sat in the dark pit, his long hair tangled and hanging about his shoulders. He ate simple food: insects and water. Taunting prison guards probably let his friends visit; he passed a message to the outside world. He thought he knew his purpose. The man believed God…
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Suzie, Gordon Setter, blind dog, Springset Kennel, why does God let pets die, memories of a great dog, Cushing's disease, living witha blind dog

in Family Life· Life's challenges

In Memory of a Good Dog: Suzie

Suzie, our beloved Gordon Setter, died. These are memories of a good dog. We got Suzie as a rescue dog when she was almost a year old. Friends from church ran Springset Kennels just down the road from us at the time. She came shivering with fear and the first night my husband rocked the 45 pound dog on his…
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Michelle Ule is a bestselling author of historical novellas, an essayist, blogger and the biographer of Mrs. Oswald Chambers: The Woman Behind the World's Bestselling Devotional.

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