Everyone has eight great-grandparents. I met only one of mine: Ollie Rigdon Wilson, my maternal father's mother. I have her wedding photo—a beautiful, demure...
Grandmother Wilson’s Prayer
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~ Holly Bebernitz
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The Hidden Illness
Depression has many causes and afflicts everyone sometimes. Victory is available, but it does not always arrive overnight. William Cowper, author of “There is...
Good Fences Make Good Neighbors
We live in a frenzied generation. Every day there is some new plan for being better, looking better, doing more, doing better, adding something else to your...
Who’s First?
Long before you bring the first baby home from the hospital, you will receive lots of advice and testimonials, some of it asked for and some entirely...
Reach Out and Touch Someone
In the late 80’s AT&T launched a popular ad campaign with the slogan Reach Out & Touch Someone. The commercial featured a college student, laboring...
Under Construction
Elements of Style. On Writing. Plot and Structure. Aspects of the Novel. Four titles out of who knows how many on “how to write.” Read all the books you want,...
Open Arms, Open Hearts
Purchased by the infamous pirate Calico Jack Rackham in 1719, the Peregrine Inn, on the weather-beaten North Carolina coast, is a haven for the wanderer....
Help Me Remember
On a blustery January morning, when my firstborn Aaron (now 40) was six years old, I did him the “favor” of warming his coat (a “puffy” nylon jacket) by...
The Vanishing Button
A button had been missing from Annabelle’s favorite jeans for over two weeks. It was no big deal...really. She always wore her shirt on the outside. But she...
Olga Organization
Olga Organization: a nickname given to me by a friend, who was “less organized” than I. I’m still not sure if she intended the name as a term of endearment or...
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.
