Peering Through Life's Window

Wishing everyone a safe and Happy New Year and many blessings for 2014! See you then!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!                                 MERRY CHRISTMAS !                          MERRY CHRISTMAS!                                                                MERRY CHRISTMAS!        MERRY CHRISTMAS! This year's Christmas reminds me of an exciting, wonderful movie on the television with the sound turned off. I walk into a mall, and with the exception of my local Sears store, there's no indication that it's anything except an ordinary day. I purchase a gift and the clerk says, "Thank you. Have a nice day." I want to scream. "This is a Christmas present. I'm buying it because it's Christmas!" I know the clerks are doing what they've been told, so I don't. There are throngs of people waiting in line to buy gifts in their stores. It doesn't look like an ordinary day. Who told them it was? Why? On December twenty-fifth Christians celebrate the birth of Christ. They've been doing it in this country as long

A Special "Thank You" Christmas Give Away with Ten Christian Authors Until December 18th!! Enter to win Romance, Amish, Children's, Teens, Devotions and More, including Stopped Cold! More information on how to enter  here . Also, enter to win Stopped Cold in My Family's Heart Book Reviews and Tours Celebration party for 2,500 likes. Selection includes sweet romance and Christian books. More information here

 Thanks to everyone for stopping by to read about Terror on Tybee Island. It was hard to choose a winner. I drew names and the winner is... Hats and Horns... Congratulations, Jackie!

It’s great to have Deborah Malone to talk about her fun cozy mystery series and her new book. She’ll give away a copy of Terror on Tybee Island . To enter to win leave a comment and an e-mail address. 1.First, tell us a little about yourself, Debbie . Well, I’m a Georgia Peach, but my two older brothers were born in Cinn, Ohio. My dad worked for General Electric and was transferred to Georgia. He was originally from Opelika, Ala and my mother was from Cinn. Talking about North meeting South. I often think if they stayed in Ohio I’d be a %^&* Yankee   2. Were you an avid reader as a child? If so, what did you read? I loved to read as a child. I think I came out of the womb reading. I read any mystery I could get my hands on. I think I read all of Nancy Drew’s books and some of Trixie Beldon . My character Trixie is named after Trixie Beldon. 3. I'm a big fan of Nancy Drew also. What do you write?   Surprise, surprise! I write cozy mysteries. 4. Sounds like

***See below for authors to visit next week on The Blog Tour.   HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! My daughter’s first grade year in school, the children drew images illustrating Thanksgiving. The administration put them on the walls for an open house. That night turkeys, Indians and Pilgrims in many colors lined the halls. On the tour we stopped at our daughter’s offering and told her how good it was— of course. She peered at me with wide brown eyes. “My friend had to take down her picture and do it over.” “Why?” I asked. “Here it is.” Our daughter pointed to a drawing with a boat and some stick people standing around it. “She wrote on it the first time?” “Did she write over the picture?” I asked. “No, she said the Pilgrims gave thanks to God, and that’s not allowed.” I was stunned. “What’s not allowed?” “To put up there that the Pilgrims thanked God.” History was re-written behind the walls of those halls that Thanksgiving. Each Thanksgiving I remember the incident and think of th

Thanks to Miss Mae at  Feeling Nosey for referring me for this fun blog tour. Here’s a little about my corner of the writing world. What’s my latest book?   I’m excited about my newest release, Stopped Cold , a teen novel with a mystery, spiritual talk and a touch of romance. While it has a serious message: We don’t have to be number one for God to love us, it has a fun mystery to keep the pages turning. It’s set in a small town in the North Carolina mountains, but things aren’t what they seem in peaceful Mistville. Margaret McWhorter enjoys a laid-back Freshman year in high school flirting with Jimmy Willmore, swimming and hanging out with friends—until that day. Her brother, Sean, suffers a stroke from taking a steroid. Now he’s lying unconscious in a hospital. Margaret’s angry at her dad for pushing Sean to be a great quarterback, but a fire of hatred burns inside her to make the criminals pay. Looking for justice, she takes Jimmy and her best friend, Emily, through a