May 1988 the Florida Times-Union requested Mother’s Day stories from its readers. I submitted this story, which was published with a photo, captioned:...
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~ 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]
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Mary Slessor [1848-1915]
Mary Slessor was born December 2, 1848 in Scotland. She was the second of seven children. Her mother was a Christian, who was deeply interested in missions....
Writing 101: Hard-Knox College
A ttend writers’ groups, seminars, and conferences. B e confident. Put words on paper and let someone read what you have written. C reate a...
Ned and Zed Do a Family Tree
Excerpt from Tales of Hog Holler When Maybelle Higginbottom’s 9-year-old twins Ned and Zed announced their teacher had assigned ‘a family tree,’ she located...
Grandmother Wilson’s Prayer
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...
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,...
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.
