This past weekend I attended my local RWA Chapter writers’ conference, Chicago-North Spring Fling. It’s held every other year, and I can say with all sincerity that every conference is even better than the last. This year there were over 250 attendees, not just from Chicago but from all over. I met women from many […]
Archives for April 2012
Do You Know Why You Believe?
I watched a video recently with my small group that presents a role-playing situation between philosopher Ken Samples and Second Baptist pastor Ben Young who posed as a non-believer. The “non-believer” presented one question after another, each representing a common attitude regarding Christian faith issues. Interestingly, my husband had watched the Bill Maher movie “Religulous” […]
My Visit to RT
Last week I participated in a couple of workshops at the 2012 Romantic Times Book Lovers Convention in Chicago, Illinois. Fellow author Roxanne Rustand had taken the opportunity to gather a few Inspirational authors together to present a panel on crossing over from the secular to the Christian market.Romantic Times has a fairly long history […]
An End to Family Myths?
This past week my husband and I were comparing stories that have been handed down in both of our families. And by “stories” I really mean something along the lines of a family myth. Not that I haven’t casually believed the myths in my family. I just never stopped to really evaluate them one way […]
New Fiction Wednesday!
This week I’m happy to introduce the latest from K. Dawn Byrd! Lessons from the Open Road A couple of years ago, the idea of writing a devotional about the lessons I learned while riding a motorcycle came to me. I had no idea what I was getting into and how much writing devotionals […]
Have you counted the Alps lately?
From the years 1998 to 2008 engineers in Switzerland built the Large Hadron Collider – a structure created to allow physicists to test predictions relating to theories about particle physics and high-energy physics and whether or not the Higgs boson hypothesis is true or not. Absolutely none of that interests me (perhaps it might if […]
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