I began my teaching career as a speech teacher. One of the assignments was an Informative speech. In one particular class I had a “mature” student named Jake...
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Stories: fictional, historical, biographical. Devotional thoughts. Writing tips. Helps for home and hearth.
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Ned Goes Fishing
Here's a little story-poem to begin the month and end the week. Share with the children in your life by reading aloud in a zesty expressive voice. Ned sat on...
Robert Murray McCheyne
Robert Murray McCheyne was born in Edinburgh in May 1813. At fourteen he entered Edinburgh University, and graduated four years later in 1831. When his older...
The Centurion
Rigid and silent, the centurion endured the merciless sun which bore down on the crowd and the crosses at Golgotha. From two of the three crosses, screams of...
Epitaph–April 9, 1865
On April 9.1865 the Civil War ended. In honor of that occasion, here is a piece, written many years ago for my final project in a graduate class on the Civil...
The Product of Balance
I have been a bike rider for as long as I can remember. I’ve always had a bike parked in my garage, even after I married and had children, and grew older. At...
Response to Distress
David and Goliath is one of the first stories children learn in Sunday School. David, using a well-aimed stone, felled the giant. As he stood over Goliath,...
Trading Places
If you’re at least a Baby Boomer or maybe older, you’ve been there: Handed your devices to a grandchild and gawked as he found what he wanted to watch or...
Two Roads and Counting
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, wrote Robert Frost. The lesson: choose one and that “makes all the difference.” But be advised: after you choose one, you...
Meet Dr. Cosmo Tuttle
With this post, I come to a successful conclusion of the Blog 31 Day Challenge. Thank you for joining me, encouraging me with your kind comments, and sharing...
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.
