Monthly Archives: February 2020

When it rains, it pours

Sometimes, when it rains, it pours. We’re all ok, but my family’s having a rough week! 

Maybe today can be a good day to remember one another in prayer and share a “Lord, have mercy!” moment. 🙂

Blessings to you & yours.

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Perspective to Connect

One of the things I really value as a writer is perspective. To write, one needs perspective broad and narrow, principled and specific. But rather than detaching and decompartmentalizing everything, you know, to protect us from our own very real vulnerabilities, writers use perspective to connect. I love that.

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2020 Lenten Resources

Today I have a few things to note for you, including a sale and 2020 Lenten resources. I’m afraid it won’t be as thorough as sometimes, as my sweet-hearted, sporty eleven-year-old dislocated her knee cap last night. 🙁 Our house is rather mortified in the flesh.

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Cruelest quote

I’m going to go ahead and take a quote out of context to share it with you. 🙂 It’s just two sentences from Lars Walker‘s Hailstone Mountain: Book 4 of the Saga of Erling Skjalgsson.

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Quick Question

Ok, friends. Can any of you help me figure out which hymnal the video below is from? It’s the Athanasian Creed pointed and with chanting tones.

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Memorize the Athanasian Creed

I’d like to borrow a brilliant idea from Sarah Gulseth and the Facebook/ Podcast The Lutheran Ladies Lounge. You do not need to be a lady, however, to join us and memorize the Athanasian Creed!

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West Oversea

I swear that this is a blog for writers and not just book reviews. Time’s just been short and books about vikings so enticing. 🙂 So today’s post is, once again, on a Lars Walker book, the next in the Erling Skjalgsson series, West Oversea: A Norse Saga of Mystery, Adventure and Faith.

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Internet Issues

I’m still here. Over the weekend, when I often try to plot out posts for the week, our small town was out of Internet. Now, generally I try to avoid paranoid thinking, trying to cultivate a better attitude and all, but I just cannot believe that big cities have the Internet & phone problems of small towns. So I got bitter and avoided Internet a few days. Ha ha ha ha

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Blood and Judgment

I’ll say this. Once I start reading Lutheran author Lars Walker, it’s hard to stop! But I did take a break from his Erling Skalgsson series. (Mostly because I need to look up the order again.) Today’s post is from his more stand alone-ish series, The Epson books, in which sequence of books isn’t especially important. (I’ll link to reviews of some of those books below.) Now, I’ll review Blood and Judgment below. 🙂

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The Year of the Warrior

Today I review the great Lutheran author Lars Walker and his first two books (combined) in his series, The Saga of Erling Skjalgsson: The Year of the Warrior.

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