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...
The Hope of a Tree
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Stories: fictional, historical, biographical. Devotional thoughts. Writing tips. Helps for home and hearth.
~ Holly Bebernitz
31 Days of Blogging
I have two main goals for 2020. One is to give my 30-year-old house a face lift. The other is to resist the desire to stay in the shadows and “just write.” Therefore, I am marching forth into the other arena of the Writer’s World, so necessary to success. I first joined in a challenge to “Blog for 31 Days” in March and May of this year, and have been doing so again for each month with 31 days. I hope you will join me on that journey. Here’s the weekly schedule for October:
Sundays—”S’s in Order” [a study of I Peter 5:10]
Mondays—Maintenance [keeping up with necessary facets of life]
Tuesdays—Tales [original stories]
Wednesdays—Writing [a history of my novel series]
Thursdays—Thinking Back [personal & historical events]
Fridays—Fractures [how to heal from life’s injuries]
Saturdays—Slogans [true sayings and how to live by them]
Burdens: Bear or Bare?
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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
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Thank You, Octavia
The seven years (one course per semester) I spent in the M.A. program at the University of North Florida can be counted among the best years of my life....
The Stories that Made Me
When I was five, I read Little Yip-Yip and His Bark, by Kathryn and Byron Jackson, a Little Golden book, clothbound, purchased from a used book sale from the...
Bonny Bee is Kidnapped
Among the accomplishments of Bonny Bee Rackham was the capture of the dread pirate Quentin Drake. Now Drake, bent on revenge, has returned and kidnapped Bonny...
In Praise of the Sippy Cup
In the decades between my initiation to motherhood and promotion to grand-motherhood, innovations galore have made childcare easier. For example, my firstborn...
Remarkable Martha
I speak of Martha of Bethany, sister of Lazarus, sister of Mary. If you are thinking, Wait. Don't you mean 'Remarkable Mary'?...I invite you to read further....
How to Be a Genius
Genius: an exceptional natural capacity of intellect, especially as shown in creative and original work in science, art, music, etc. or a person having such...
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.
