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...
Epitaph–April 9, 1865
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~ Holly Bebernitz
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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...
The Hope of a Tree
Plants and the lessons we learn from them appear from Genesis 1:12 where “the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree...
Burdens: Bear or Bare?
“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.” Henry David Thoreau. “Desperation” can range from personal loss to fear of failure to performing below...
Be Where You Are
We live in a marvelous age. We are connected, informed, productive. Any information we need to know, any process we need to learn, any product we need to buy...
The Day We Went to Peshtigo
You have heard of Golf Widows? I was a Fire Extinguisher Widow. Mr. B. was a firefighter and specialized in fire extinguisher training. At one point, we had...
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.
