by carrie | Dec 15, 2020 | Holidays
This is week three of the Advent Season. Much like Lent, believers would fast and pray from mid-November until Christmas. Originally, it was a time for believers to prepare themselves for baptism, but during the Middle Ages, the focus changed to the Second Coming of...
by carrie | Dec 8, 2020 | Holidays, Pain and Trauma
This is week two of the Advent Season. Much like Lent, believers would fast and pray from mid-November until Christmas. Originally, it was a time for believers to prepare themselves for baptism, but during the Middle Ages, the focus changed to the Second Coming of...
by carrie | Dec 1, 2020 | Holidays, Pain and Trauma
This is week one of the Advent Season. Much like Lent, believers would fast and pray from mid-November until Christmas. Originally, it was a time for believers to prepare themselves for baptism, but during the Middle Ages, the focus changed to the Second Coming of...
by carrie | Nov 24, 2020 | Growing Christlike, Holidays
One of the reasons I love the southeastern United States is the plethora of colorful sayings. Sayings like: He’s grinnin’ like a possum eatin’ a sweet tater. I’ll jerk a knot in your tail! She’s as lost as last year’s Easter egg....
by carrie | Mar 3, 2020 | Holidays
For all of you who need an excuse to buy a book–it’s Read an eBook Week! That means I need a new one, right? I shouldn’t merely read one of the ones I already own, right? (And my husband rolls his eyes.) Okay, who’s thinking, “But I...
by carrie | Feb 4, 2020 | Allie, From the Writer Side, Holidays
It’s Children’s Book Week! Okay, technically it’s Children’s Authors and Illustrators Week. But that’s a mouthful and I want ‘them’ to simplify it. Since ‘they’ won’t, I’m claiming the privilege on my own...