Since I committed to pen this account of my fall and rise, I have a new appreciation for authors who summon the nerve to pen memoirs or autobiographies....
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~ Holly Bebernitz
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While Daring Greatly
The credit belongs to the man who strives valiantly… who errs and comes up short again and again … who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high...
Best Foot Forward
Standard writing seminar advice to the author: “Do not tell the backstory for at least thirty pages. Drive the story forward first.” I’ve tried to...
Confidence
**This is Part III of how to face an injury and recovery, later to be published as a book titled: Though You Fall. At the beginning of 2025, there was a...
The Root of the Problem
We moved into our new home in February 1990, one of the first five houses in our subdivision. Like pioneers of old, we claimed our ground and began planting...
We’re Not Getting Any Younger
The scene: parking lot of a four-star hotel. The players: middle-aged couple discussing a friend’s “two-seater” car. Mr.—remarked it was silly for an...
The Stern Work of Remodeling
After thirty years in my home, I am having my kitchen remodeled, and have concluded that “remodeling” is a metaphor for life in general. Remodeling your own...
Heavenly Prepositions
Though I have been a Christian since I was nine years old, I did not learn how to pray till I was forty. My learning curve along those lines is still steep....
Comfort
Beginning with the sermon I heard last Sunday and a number of conversations I have had this week, I became convinced this is a message I needed to share...
Rejoice
Some of you may be familiar with the practice of selecting a “life verse,” by which you intend to live, or which characterizes your life at a certain point in...
Native Texan Holly Bebernitz moved to Jacksonville, Florida in 1967. After thirty years of teaching speech, English, and history on the secondary and college levels, she retired from classroom teaching to become a full-time grandmother. The change in schedule allowed the time needed to complete the novel she had begun writing in 1998. When Trevorode the Defender was published in March 2013, the author realized the story of the Magnolia Arms was not yet complete.
