In an email to a friend who lives far away, I recently remarked how things had been "crazy" that week. Right about then, I realized how often I pin that word "crazy-busy" to my week or life at the moment. It got me thinking that maybe all that craziness is life.
But that didn't completely ring true. So I decided a better comparison would be the ocean, with its high and low tides. Life is a lot like that - there are periods of high tide, full of challenge or intense activity, and there are periods of low tide, full of calm and rest. I'd even venture to say we may have times of high and low tide within a day, just like the ocean.
As much as I think I would like to live perpetually in calm waters, I'm starting to recognize we need both types of tide in our lives. While the intense times can be tough physically and emotionally, those are typically times of growth, too, times of smoothing out our roughness. Plus, the intensity of high tide can help us appreciate the calming times of low tide all the more.
Though I don't live anywhere near the ocean, whenever we do visit the beach, I collect shells. I love seashells! To me, there is something awesome and beautiful about them.
These shells have been subject to both high and low tides, as well as wind and sand and sun. I believe God intended for us to turn out every bit as awesome and beautiful - from weathering the different tides in our lives.
How's your week been so far? Feeling like you're in the middle of high tide or low tide?
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What It's About:
It's a Battle of Wills...and Love Is on the Line!
Rural switchboard operator Georgie Gail is proud of her independence in a man's world...which makes it twice as vexing when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder.
Dashing Luke Palmer is more than he appears though. He's a Texas Ranger working undercover to infiltrate a notorious gang of train robbers. Repairing telephones and tangling with this tempestuous woman are the last things he wants to do. But when his stakeout puts Georgie in peril, he realizes more than his job is on the line.
My Thoughts:
Let me just say Deeanne Gist knows how to write great characters and crackling chemistry between the hero and heroine! I really enjoyed this story. It was super interesting to learn how complex an old-fashioned switchboard was; I had no idea being a switchboard operator was such a tough job. Georgie has great, believable spunk and Luke is a fantastic, protective hero. I love the element of him working undercover and how that keeps coming into conflict with his relationship with independent Georgie!
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Thursday, February 21, 2013
My Recommendation: Love on the Line by Deeanne Gist
It's a Battle of Wills...and Love Is on the Line!
Rural switchboard operator Georgie Gail is proud of her independence in a man's world...which makes it twice as vexing when the telephone company sends a man to look over her shoulder.
Dashing Luke Palmer is more than he appears though. He's a Texas Ranger working undercover to infiltrate a notorious gang of train robbers. Repairing telephones and tangling with this tempestuous woman are the last things he wants to do. But when his stakeout puts Georgie in peril, he realizes more than his job is on the line.
My Thoughts:
Let me just say Deeanne Gist knows how to write great characters and crackling chemistry between the hero and heroine! I really enjoyed this story. It was super interesting to learn how complex an old-fashioned switchboard was; I had no idea being a switchboard operator was such a tough job. Georgie has great, believable spunk and Luke is a fantastic, protective hero. I love the element of him working undercover and how that keeps coming into conflict with his relationship with independent Georgie!
Find it here on Amazonor Barnes and Noble.
Thursday, February 14, 2013
A Love Story
Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! Like my favorite fictional couple Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, my husband and I met in school. He didn't pull my braid and call me "carrots," though my hair is strawberry blonde. :) He moved nearby, right before our junior year of high school. We passed each other outside one day, having learned about the other from a mutual friend, and said "Hi." And you know the signifcance of that when you're in high school!
Then he showed up in my drama class. We were paired up to do a scene from Romeo and Juliet - the balcony scene, no less - for a competition. Though we didn't win anything, we had a very long bus ride to get to know each other better.
We went to a few dances that year and liked each other off and on - but never at the same time it seemed. When I finally realized just what an awesome guy he is, during our senior year, he already had a girlfriend! And though I knew it was impossible, I really wanted him to ask me to our senior prom. Alas, it didn't happen - we both went with other people.
We graduated from high school and went to different colleges, though we stayed in contact. When I would come home, we would go places together. But we were just friends. We’d never even held hands.
Another three and a half years later, both of us more mature and wiser - ha, ha - we decided it was finally time to give "dating" each other a try. After a couple of months, when we realized we felt much more than friendship for each other, we began exclusively dating. Three more months went by, and he asked me to marry him. The theme of his proposal was about dancing, since we'd missed the chance to dance at prom together all those years before.
There are numerous ways the hero and heroine meet in books and movies, but one of my favorites has always been the couple who begin as friends. Maybe that's because I planned on marrying my best friend, even before I met him - and I did.
How did you meet your hubby or boyfriend? What's your favorite way the hero and heroine meet in a book or movie?
Then he showed up in my drama class. We were paired up to do a scene from Romeo and Juliet - the balcony scene, no less - for a competition. Though we didn't win anything, we had a very long bus ride to get to know each other better.
We graduated from high school and went to different colleges, though we stayed in contact. When I would come home, we would go places together. But we were just friends. We’d never even held hands.
Another three and a half years later, both of us more mature and wiser - ha, ha - we decided it was finally time to give "dating" each other a try. After a couple of months, when we realized we felt much more than friendship for each other, we began exclusively dating. Three more months went by, and he asked me to marry him. The theme of his proposal was about dancing, since we'd missed the chance to dance at prom together all those years before.
There are numerous ways the hero and heroine meet in books and movies, but one of my favorites has always been the couple who begin as friends. Maybe that's because I planned on marrying my best friend, even before I met him - and I did.
How did you meet your hubby or boyfriend? What's your favorite way the hero and heroine meet in a book or movie?
Thursday, February 7, 2013
Merry Ol' England
I've had England on my mind lately, and not just because of Downton Abbey! (Does anyone else feel like this season is rushing by too fast? It'll be a long wait for Season 4!) But because the third book in my WWI inspirational trilogy is set in England.
The hero of this story is a former WWI pilot and the second son of an earl who is struggling to live life normally in 1921 after all he experienced during The Great War, including the death of his older brother. He's also attempting to save his family's estate and learn his new role as heir. The heroine is a red-headed American who inherits a sheep farm in England from a distant uncle and moves there in hopes of carving out a new life for herself, far away from her deceased parents and the memories of the fiance she lost in the war.
I've had the opportunity to travel to England twice - and I hope to go again some day. As I've been contemplating this next book, I've been thinking about where to set it. I loved seeing this place - Killerton House and Garden - near Exeter, in southwestern England. This short, boxy style house with its large gardens is similar to what I picture my hero living in.
These other two pictures are from the Lake District, in northern England. Isn't it gorgeous? So makes me want to go back there. I'm leaning toward setting the story in this part of England.
Is there a place you've read about or seen on a movie that you want to visit? Have you been to England? Do you want to?
*Every Friday for the last two months, I've posted a picture of places found in my book LADY OUTLAW! Check them out on my Facebook page.
The hero of this story is a former WWI pilot and the second son of an earl who is struggling to live life normally in 1921 after all he experienced during The Great War, including the death of his older brother. He's also attempting to save his family's estate and learn his new role as heir. The heroine is a red-headed American who inherits a sheep farm in England from a distant uncle and moves there in hopes of carving out a new life for herself, far away from her deceased parents and the memories of the fiance she lost in the war.
I've had the opportunity to travel to England twice - and I hope to go again some day. As I've been contemplating this next book, I've been thinking about where to set it. I loved seeing this place - Killerton House and Garden - near Exeter, in southwestern England. This short, boxy style house with its large gardens is similar to what I picture my hero living in.
These other two pictures are from the Lake District, in northern England. Isn't it gorgeous? So makes me want to go back there. I'm leaning toward setting the story in this part of England.
*Every Friday for the last two months, I've posted a picture of places found in my book LADY OUTLAW! Check them out on my Facebook page.
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