Guest Blogger: Shannon Vannatter Award winning author, Shannon Taylor Vannatter writes contemporary Christian cowboy romance and has over a dozen published titles. A romance reader since her teens, …
Memory Quilts
Memory Quilts As a new first-time mother in 1978, I was elated with the baby showers and gifts bestowed upon me when I was pregnant with my first baby. My heart was filled with delight and I laughed …
Tenny, the Traveling Mouse
Do you have any family keepsakes that have turned into a game for children? My husband and I have such a thing for our grandchildren! I was fortunate enough to have in-laws who enjoyed making crafts …
All Things Bright and Beautiful
As a very young girl in the late 1950's, my father was a song leader in the acapella church we attended. Today, he would have been called the worship leader. On Saturday evenings, we always knew …
Part three: Third Generation, Talitha, the Traveling Skirt
Between the four daughters from the first generation, we added eight daughters to our family tree. These eight daughters began to marry and have children, producing more little girls for the third …
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Part Two: Second Generation, Talitha, the Traveling Skirt
The little red plaid skirt was saved, tucked away in a drawer, and as time went along, my sisters and I continued with the professional photo shoots at age two with our own daughters, the second …
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Part One: First Generation, Talitha, the Traveling Skirt
Who could guess that Talitha is anything more than an ordinary skirt? Well, I could! You see, I have watched the history of this little skirt unfold in my lifetime for three generations. Talitha’s …
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Let Them Fly
Recently my husband and I enjoyed watching an Andy Griffith episode on Netflix entitled “Opie the Bird Man.” (Season 4, episode 1, 1963) Opie got himself into a jam when he accidentally shot a mother …
Snap—Crackle—Pop
When most of us hear these three words, we think of the Rice Krispies cereal, right? For me, however, these three words take me back more than 50 years ago to my grandparents’ back porch. As a young …
Prayer Markers
"And Joshua said to them: “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and each one of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of …