Jefferson Smith was an unlikely senator. A Boy Ranger leader, judged to be too naïve to be politically savvy, he was summoned to Washington D.C. to fill a...
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~ Holly Bebernitz
Saturdays—Speaking
Posted for the 31 Days of Blogging challenge.
Stand Up, Speak Up, Shut Up
Way back when I taught speech, I used the following illustration every semester: A plumber wrote to the National Bureau of Standards saying he had...
Words Spoken in Prayer
“Oh, what peace we often forfeit. Oh, what needless pain we bear, all because we do not carry everything to God in prayer.” Prayer: a devout petition, a...
How the Presidents Spoke
This month’s Saturday blogs will discuss the topic of “Speaking.” And in honor of July 4th, we will begin with “How the Presidents Spoke.” November 1863...
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.
