the inspiration behind Shadow Play

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Have you ever wondered how Adam and Eve felt after their big oops moment in the Garden? I mean, after they played the finger pointing game. It was Your fault, God – you gave me this woman. It was the serpent’s fault, God – it deceived me. Sigh. When did the magnitude of their sin hit them? Did they wish they could go back again and have a do-over? Knowing what they knew, would they eat that fruit again or run away screaming? Or would the deliciousness of their first taste beckon them back to the tree?

And then I wondered, how might things have turned out if they had fallen down on their faces and begged for forgiveness instead of hiding? But pointing fingers is more in our nature than true repentance, sadly.

These were the questions in my mind when I began my short story Shadow Play. As you read the story, you’ll notice a lot of Genesis 3 references. Eve (Evie), the death of joy, the tree, the serpent’s whispers, and at the very end, the forgiveness God’s offers through His Son.

In the first draft of the story, I had Evie travel back through time to the moment of her fateful decision. In the original version, she ran away instead of making the same choice again. But reading the story written with that ending didn’t sit right with anyone who read it (including me) because God doesn’t give us do-overs. He doesn’t send us back in time to choose again. He wipes away our mistakes and gives us a clean slate through forgiveness, not forgetting.

And aren’t you glad? If we forgot, we’d be plagued to make the same mistakes over and over like some sort of never-ending loop. (Hmm, maybe that’s a good premise for a story…) Forgiveness allows us to move on with life instead of reliving the same mistakes again and again. (Hopefully).

I posed the question on Facebook, “if Eve was given a do-over, would she eat the fruit again?” In the opinion of my Facebook friends who answered, it would only have been a matter of time until Adam and Eve would have sinned again. Our memories are short like that. 

Ready to read Shadow Play? You can it at this link: http://www.familyfiction.com/short-stories/the-story-2014-contest/shadow-play/

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I’d love to hear your thoughts. And if you like it, please press the green thumb at the bottom to cast your vote for it. You can read the other stories and vote for as many as you like. I won’t know until early May if my story has won anything, but just getting it to where it is now so I can share it and have people vote for it seems like a win to me. :)

Now, dear friends, your thoughts on Adam and Eve? If they had a do-over, would they make the same mistake again?

how edgy do you like your Christian fiction?

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I stopped reading Stephen King after Misery. It was just too…scary, realistic, horrifying. There – let’s settle on horrifying. I read it in high school, and I remember running and diving into bed at night once the lights were out as if I’d be a goner if I were caught out of bed. Bed is a safe place, right? Nothing can get you once the covers are pulled up.

When I was a kid, I also slept with the covers up to my chin so vampires couldn’t get at my neck…I must have thought my sheets were made of garlic or something. LOL

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I picked up the book Swimming Through Clouds recently because I heard so much about it from my friend, Gretchen Engel. She’s been promoting the sequel to the book, Seeing Through Stone, on her blogs. I’ve had my eye on this book ever since I heard the author read an excerpt from the book at a launch party for Playlist Fiction in Indianapolis last September. The author, Rajdeep Paulus, writes masala-marinated fiction (her term). I simply love learning about other cultures and reading through the eyes of an Indian character, especially a book well-loved by a friend, is a fantastic way to do it.

Gretchen described the book as gritty. For me, the first quarter of the book was horrifying, reminiscent to Stephen King’s Misery or the movie with Julia Roberts, Sleeping with the Enemy. The difference, while the events in Misery are a dim possibility, the events in Swimming Through the Clouds and Sleeping with the Enemy, do happen. Domestic violence is a fact of life for many and reading about the depths of pain one person can put another through is…horrifying. I read through the book thinking, when we get to the climax of the book, the “midnight of the soul” for the main character, am I going to be able to stand it? How much worse can this possibly get? It was like a reading train-wreck. Uncomfortable, but I couldn’t look away. 

But I loved this book. The writing was beautiful. The story poignant in sadness but infused with hope. Talia, the main character, and her brother Jess, grow on you and you want to reach in and scoop them out of the story and hug them to you like kittens left out in the cold. The book didn’t get to the point I couldn’t read it. The other shoe didn’t fall because, unlike Hollywood films and general fiction, this is a Christian story so there is God, and hope. 

But Talia and Jess’s stories go on. So that is why I have already purchased and am reading the sequel Seeing Through Stone. I want to know what happens next. :)

In answer to my question, how edgy do you like your Christian fiction? My answer is: the edgier the better. I want real, even if that means at times it is horrifying. Because it’s Christian, where God is involved there is always hope and redemption in one way or another. Those are the stories I like to read.

What about you?

does dying have to be scary?

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Good question. For a Christian, the answer should be a resounding no, but even if you are assured of your salvation, there is a fear of the unknown. Will dying hurt? What about the people I’m leaving behind? It’s the unanswered questions that haunt us.

(If you’re not a Christian, then the answer is yes, very. Just sayin’.)

Normally, I don’t read non-fiction. I read primarily for entertainment and I’m not one that finds non-fiction particularly enjoyable. Sometimes, but it’s the exception to the rule. For me, it’s all about the story and that’s one thing most non-fiction books lack. A notable exception was the final story told by Ruth Bell Graham in her book Legacy of a Pack Rat about a woman who was dying and what she experienced in her last moments. It’s one of those stories that helps you understand that Heaven is real. I read that story almost 30 years ago and it has stayed with me all this time because it really touched me.  

When I saw an offer for a free book written by a Hospice nurse of over 25 years, I picked it up hoping for more stores like the one I had read in Ruth Bell Graham’s book. While it had some similar elements, Glimpses of Heaven was more about what the author learned about God in all the years of being with people as they died. And she learned some very profound truths. It should be no surprise that Jesus, our wonderful shephard, cares for His sheep at the end of their lives. We’re not left alone to die. Quite the opposite–God is with us when we need Him most and taking that step from living into eternity is certainly a time when we need Him.

Trudy Harris describes people in the last stages of dying that are at peace because family members who have died or angels or Jesus or a familiar setting provides them peace. Are they hallucinating? Who knows. But it seems likely to me and to the author, that God knows best what will comfort us in a difficult time. And if the person who is dying is at peace, then it goes a long way to providing peace for their family as well.

In my life, I’ve gone to my share of funerals. The first I remember was when I was eight years old and my father died. My mother and I had walked down to the elementary school one evening for a PTA program. My father stayed at home because he wasn’t feeling well. When we returned, we found him lying on the floor in the den where he had collapsed with a rag in his hand. My dad was in the habit of using an old rag to wipe the dust off the TV screen and it looks like that was where he was headed when the heart-attack took him. Needless to say, it was a shock. No eight year old is prepared to have a parent die. It had a profound effect on my life and relationships. In the back of my head, I can’t help but wonder when the people close to me are going to die. I don’t mean to do it, it’s just where my head goes.

It takes longer to get to a place of peace with the unexpected death of a loved one because it is so difficult to get closure. But the one thing I’ve learned is that even if someone you love dies, you are never alone because God is with you. I trust in God.

My husband’s grandmother, a spitfire of a woman named Pauline (Polly) Moxley, died the week of Christmas almost ten years ago. I still smile whenever I think of Polly. She had such a matter-of-fact manner and wasn’t shy telling you what she thought. When she got sick, my mother-in-law went to stay with her and hospice was there as well. When she reached the end, only a couple of weeks after she had gotten sick, we had time to get to her house and be there with family for a couple of days before she passed. Knowing someone is dying and being able to spend time with them and say good-bye, especially to someone who has lived a long and complete life, is a very different experience than someone dying with no warning. Peace and closure come much faster when you have time to say good-bye. It doesn’t mean you don’t mourn though.

I found comfort reading Glimpses of Heaven. Of course, I can’t help but be a little paranoid. I’m reading this book that I normally would never read (because it’s non-fiction). Is it because someone I know is going to die of a protracted illness in the near future? There’s no coincidence, there’s only God, right? Sadly, that’s the way my brain works for the reason I explained above. This is yet another time I’m going to trust God and let it go. So instead of wondering who’s going to die, I’m going to take this opportunity to offer you a resource if this is a topic near and dear to your heart. The author wrote it to comfort the dying and grieving, and it is a comfort. It’s also a comfort to me, who at the moment is neither dying or grieving. :) 

Do you have any experience with someone close to you dying that you’d like to share?

junior high is as dystopian as it gets

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Do you remember junior high? That awkward time where your elementary BFF’s start to drift away because you’re in a new school with new people and all of a sudden you have options. Do you want to be in band, track, orchestra, choir? What electives are you going to take? Are you going to be in honors classes or regular? And the most important question – are you going to hang out in the popular crowd, or some other group? That is, if you have the choice.

I read a wonderful book this weekend by my friend and critique partner, Cynthia T. Toney. Bird Face is her debut novel, and because she wrote it before I joined the Scriblerian critique group, I had heard about it but had never gotten to read it. It just released on February 11th, and, yes, it was definitely worth the wait. :)

My junior high was grades 7-9, so basically a bunch of 12-15 year olds trying to figure out who they were and how to relate to the world. I was shy, in the gifted/talented program, and in band. I also had glasses and braces until I got contacts in 8th grade. I had very poor fashion sense and was incredibly skinny. Not because I had an eating disorder, but because I just didn’t like food (I no longer have that problem, sadly). I still cringe at my old school photos. So I can totally relate to Wendy Robichaud, the main character in Bird Face, as being shy, OK looking at best, and in the shadow of a gorgeous best friend. My BFF in junior high/high school was voted Most Beautiful our senior year. :) I didn’t begrudge her that, she was and still is beautiful.

Bird Face is an authentic look at the important transitional years of junior high. Wendy figures out who she is going to be over the course of the book. Will she be defined by her friends, parents, or a name-calling boy? She struggles with divorced parents, anonymous notes of encouragement, a misunderstood bully, and girls with eating disorders. Not only is this book incredibly well written, the message is strong and from a non-preachy Christian worldview. As a parent, it reminds me of what it was like to be in junior high which will help me empathize with my girls as they get to that age. And I want to read it and discuss it with both my daughters as well. This is realistic Christian fiction at its best!

You can read an excerpt from Bird Face and enter to win an autographed copy at Cynthia Toney’s blog. Definitely stop by and tell her I sent you! ;)

And now, dear friends, what were you like in junior high?

a new favorite for 2014 – the night circus by erin morgenstern

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Every once in a while, I fall in love with a book. It didn’t take me very long to realize I was developing a crush on The Night Circus, but could woo me to the finish and become a true love? Or would it fall off into disappointed oblivion, just another tease on the roadway to the favorite few?

I had seen its cover before. I had read the back cover blurb. I had been interested, yes, but I never took the plunge. It was always too expensive for a girl who has over 150 unread books on her kindle, so many of them freely given. And the premise sounded vaguely depressing…an area I don’t need much help with, thank you very much…so I was leery.

Three weeks ago I was at the library looking for an audio book. I’m the sort of driver who has to have something besides music piping at me if I’m going to stay awake longer than twenty minutes in a car. And my monthly writers group meetings are an hour from my house so I had to have a book. And there it was, waving shyly at me from one of the shelves. I read the back cover again and thought, why not?

Eleven CDs later why not? turned into where have you been all my life?

From a writing standpoint, The Night Circus is cleverly told from multiple points of view with parallel story lines written twenty years apart. Sections of it are even written in second person, a difficult feat to pull off, but one the author does well. So many characters spread out over a period of thirty or so years. With the questions of why? and how will it end? cleverly strung along until the very end. 

The book itself is magical. It takes you to the pinnacle of what a circus should be and makes you feel a part of it. The wondrous magicalness of possibility mingled with mystery and star-crossed lovers. Ah, how long until I pick it up again, this time reading it for myself instead of listening to it read for me by someone else? It’s the sort of book I need on my bookshelf where I can look over at it and smile every time I see it. I might even have to blow it kisses.

I’m not alone in feeling this way about books. What books have your dearest loves? Your oldest loves? Your most recent romances?

counterfeit Christianity and cults

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Tarantula molting

Tarantulas molt. Who knew? 

If you look closely at the picture, only one of the two spiders is real. The other, a discarded shell.

Have you ever noticed that cult religions are like this as well? At first glance, they look like the real thing. It’s only when you look closer that you realize what you’re dealing with. If you realize what you’re dealing with. To be able to spot real Christianity from fake Christianity, first you must have a foundation of true biblical teaching.

That’s epitomized in this two book series by Allison Pittman. 

The first book in this series, For Time and Eternity, was one of the very first books I reviewed on this blog.

I recently finished the sequel, Forsaking All Others. I very much like this series. While I don’t normally read historical fiction, I enjoyed the books premise. A young Christian girl from a very strict family follows a charismatic young Mormon man on the Mormon pilgrimage to settle Utah. Not only do you get exposed to the history of the Mormon faith, but you get to see it through a girl who, deep down, knows what they’re teaching isn’t right. And we all know, or should, that Mormonism and Christianity mix together as well as oil and water.

The second book, Forsaking All Others, picks up the story where For Time and Eternity left off. While oil and water don’t blend, they can be difficult to effectively separate, especially where there are children involved. The end of the series is set against the Mormon desire to become a state, and the US governments refusal to allow polygamy.

My undergraduate degree was in Anthropology, so I very much enjoy learning about other cultures and what they believe. It’s one of the reasons my husband found me in bed last Saturday morning reading a JW tract. Once I assured him I wasn’t going to convert ;) I got back to research.

So what is a cult? Chip MacGregor gave an excellent definition of one today on his blog.

Let’s define a cult as a group of people with beliefs outside of orthodoxy, usually secretive, almost always exclusive, who tend to see outsiders as dangerous, and are led by one charismatic and authoritative leader who has a unique interpretation of truth, but who commands nearly every aspect of the lives of the followers.

Another definition, this one by Alan Gomes, quoted by Ron Rhodes in his excellent book, The Challenge of the Cults and New World Religions (Zondervan, 2001):

A group of people, which claiming to be Christian, embraces a particular doctrinal system taught by an individual leader, group of leaders, or organization, which [system] denies (either explicitly or implicitly) one of more of the central doctrines of the Christian faith as taught in the sixty-six books of the Bible.

The important points are that in cults, what is taught in the Bible is brought under the authority of a human teacher. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young for the Mormons, the Watchtower Society for the Jehovah’s Witnesses. And whichever group you speak with, on the surface their teachings seem no different than orthodox Christianity. Either they use the same terms but define them differently, or they use similar terms but the context is changed.

photoAnd then there are groups like this, identifying themselves as Baptist (Fundamentalists). I received this tract in the mail shortly after moving into our new house. You’ll notice that if you are a reader of the NIV, NASB, or other popular Bible translations, you are under the Antichrist. Personally, I’m safe, because my Bible is NLT. Just sayin’ ;)

Here, this church professes the King James Bible (not the original languages) to be the “infallible, inerrant, and inspired Holy Word of God.” The group is under the authority of one man to whom God gave a vision and a burden. Sounds like the definition of a cult, does it not?

My point is that just because a church claims to be of an orthodox denomination, you must check their doctrinal statements and teaching closely against Scripture. No one person or organization has special revelation of Scripture or from God. God gave His Word to everyone. Outside the truth of the gospel, the real Jesus, the God of the Bible, and the guidance of the Holy Spirit, we must be ever vigilant.

Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. ~ Matthew 7:15

Jesus told them, “Don’t let anyone mislead you, for many will come in my name, claiming, ‘I am the Messiah.’ They will deceive many. ~Matthew 24:4-5

Let God’s curse fall on anyone, including us or even an angel from heaven, who preaches a different kind of Good News than the one we preached to you. ~Galatians 1:8

But I fear that somehow your pure and undivided devotion to Christ will be corrupted, just as Eve was deceived by the cunning ways of the serpent. You happily put up with whatever anyone tells you, even if they preach a different Jesus than the one we preach, or a different kind of Spirit than the one you received, or a different kind of gospel than the one you believed. ~2 Corinthians 11:3-4

[Dismounts from soap box]. So, friends, let me hear from you. Have you read any good fiction out there that shows the difference between true Christianity and false teaching like the Sister Wife Series? Or do you have any experience with a cult? 

I believe in the biblical definition of marriage

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and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

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I know that’s a socially unpopular opinion these days and that some will consider me intolerant, but I’m not, really. I feel for people that struggle with homosexuality–and I do believe it’s a struggle–just like I feel for people that have addictions to drugs, alcohol, or pornography. Just because society is tolerant of sin, doesn’t make it any less sinful. And I do believe it is a sin, because it’s God who decides what is a sin, not us. And the Bible is clear on the subject:

You must not have sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman; it is a detestable act. ~Leviticus 18:22 (NET)

If a man has sexual intercourse with a male as one has sexual intercourse with a woman, the two of them have committed an abomination. They must be put to death; their blood guilt is on themselves. ~Leviticus 20:13(NET)

Don’t you realize that those who do wrong will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, or who worship idols, or commit adultery, or are male prostitutes, or practice homosexuality, or are thieves, or greedy people, or drunkards, or are abusive, or cheat people—none of these will inherit the Kingdom of God. ~1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NLT)

God is intolerant of all sexual sin, not just homosexuality. In these passages, we see injunctions against incest, bestiality, adultery, prostitution, and child sacrifice as well as non-sexual sins such as stealing, greed, drunkenness, abuse, and cheating. Homosexuality is not more of a sin than anything else. A liar is not better than a murderer. An adulterer is not less of a sinner than a child molester. To God, it’s all sin and it’s all ugly. But the wondrous thing is that even though we’re a bunch of sinners (myself included), God has paved a way for us to be right with Him. All of us.

Some of you were once like that. But you were cleansed; you were made holy; you were made right with God by calling on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. ~1 Corinthians 6:11 (NLT)

We are all tempted in one way or another. Some of our temptations are more socially acceptable than others. If you look at me, you will easily be able to tell my struggle is with food. :( But all of us, regardless of whether we are genetically or environmentally predisposed to certain temptations, can choose to fight them.

So why this topic today? Believe it or not, it has to do with an audio book I finished listening to over the weekend. I picked it up in the teen section of the library based on the book’s premise. 

The book’s main character wakes up in the body of a different person every day. Some days he’s a boy, other day’s he’s a girl. But the person whose body he inhabits is always his chronological age (16). I call the person a he because the first body he inhabits in the story is a boy named Justin. ‘A’ the character’s name, falls in love with Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. Of course, this is a problem because he never knows who he’s going to be, or where, the next day. ‘A’ is a moralistic being, not wanting to disturb the lives of the people he borrows. But once he meets Rhiannon, he bends his rules to be with her.

The book is interesting in that we get glimpses into a bunch of different teen’s lives: a girl planning suicide, a girl whose brother gets busted for drug dealing, an illegal alien who is forced to clean houses all day, a morbidly obese boy. And then there were some others – a girl who is biological female but decides to be male (with a girlfriend), the friend of a guy who liked guys, two girls who are dating and hopelessly in love. And the underlying message–that who a person is on the inside is more important than their gender or physicality. 

When I was finished listening, I looked the book up on Amazon to see how it was rated. Probably not surprising, the book was written by a gay man. It’s not not something I would have chosen to read if I had known because the large difference in world-view between the author and myself. I certainly liked the story and premise, but I found myself wanting to rewrite it from a Christian world-view because the conclusion was so disheartening.

What kind of god would create a being who could never really know or be known? Certainly not my God. And that makes it a sad, sad story.

So tell me your take–have you read any books with a pro-homosexuality message? What did you think?

why the Trinity is not polytheism

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No, I don’t know who any of the people in that picture are. I do wonder where Atlas got that huge earth though. Very cool.

I wrote a post on the Trinity for another blog and the site manager was leery about posting it because he/she thought my description of the Trinity made it sound like 3 gods instead of one God and 3 persons. And that’s understandable because it’s hard to conceptualize how God can be 3 and 1 at the same time. But it’s important to understand that the Father, the Son, and the Spirit are each their own person (that’s the 3) but are of one mind and essence (that’s the 1).

I’ve touched on this topic before, but I thought perhaps it was time to revisit it.

When I think about polytheism, I think about mythology. All those Greek and Roman gods and demi-gods. My oldest daughter is really into Greek mythology because of Rick Riordan’s series on the Olympians and tween books like The Goddess Girls. Who doesn’t like stories of Hercules?

The thing about the Greek and Roman gods, though, is that they were petty, selfish, self-centered, and fought one another with the world as their battlefield. They could get bored and use people as pieces on a game board for no other reason than as a diversion. They could have children with humans and create demi-gods like Hercules. They could lie, cheat, and steal. Are these the kinds of mercurial gods you would want to worship? Sure, they make for great stories, but how could they have created the universe? I don’t think they could work together long enough to make a blade of grass, assuming they had the power.

 

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When we see the Father, Son, and Spirit, we have 3 persons (unique in identity), that are in perfect agreement, perfect harmony, perfect unity in purpose. Unlike the rest of creation, the Son and Spirit were not created. They come from the Father –the Son as externally begotten of the Father, and the Spirit as one who proceeds from the Father. Who they are (the Father, Son, and Spirit=3) is different but what they are (divine from the essence of the Father) is the same. Same = 1.

If, at this point, you’d like to take a break to go and pound your head against the wall, I totally understand. There’s a big dent in the wall by my desk as I struggled with these concepts last semester.

But can you see that there is no polytheism with the Trinity? Because there is singleness of mind, purpose, unity, everything. Perfect harmony. As my friend, RL Copple states in his post on the subject of the Trinity:

The human nature is changeable, finite, imperfect. The divine nature is changeless, eternal, infinite, and complete. Because of that, each person sharing the divine nature are perfectly harmonized in one will, one dream, one direction, one existence.

So while there are three, they work in perfect harmony as one due to the perfect divine nature they share. It wouldn’t matter how many of them there would be, there would still only be one God, as stated in Scripture. Not three.

Human nature is what we see epitomized by the Greek and Roman gods. That is polytheism. Perfect nature and singleness in mind and purpose is what we see with the Father, Son, and Spirit. That is GOD.

“Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!” – Deuteronomy 6:4

Tell me, friends, is this new to you? (It was for me). Do you think the church should do a better job of teaching foundational concepts such as the Trinity, or do you think it’s too complex a topic for most believers? Are we doing future generations a disservice by only teaching this topic at the seminary level? (and on rambling blog posts) ;) I’m very interested to know what you think.

meerkats for Mary

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Today’s post is brought to you by the letter M.

M for meerkats

M for Mary

M for Monday (the day I should have posted)

I know very little about meerkats but I just looked them up and in a weird 6 degrees of separation thing, I thought I’d tell you how meerkats relate to me.

“The meerkat … is a small mammal belonging to the mongoose family. Meerkats live in all parts of the Kalahari Desert in Botswana, in much of the Namib Desert in Namibia and southwestern Angola, and in South Africa.”

#1 M for mammal – I’m a mammal and so is a mongoose. (So are you, for that matter).

M is also for Mongoose – not only is my bicycle a Mongoose (#2), but Rikki Tikki Tavi is my favorite of all Rudyard Kipling’s stories (#3). Do you remember the cartoon? If not, you can watch it on Youtube or you can buy a VHS copy on Amazon (but hurry because there’s only one left!).

 

#4 Mongeese (?) live in the Kalahari desert. My oldest dog’s full name is Kalahari, but we call her Kali for short. Kali is a Rhodesian Ridgeback (#5), a type of dog that originated in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) which neighbors the area that meerkats populate. Coincidence? I think not!

Kali, age 13

Kali, age 13

Finally, #6. Meerkats live in the desert, and I grew up in the desert. The Chihuahuan desert, but it’s still a desert. That make me practically a meerkat. Well, not really…

So, as you can see, I was able to come up with 6 things that meerkats and I have in common.

Now, what about you? Any meerkat stories? Interesting tidbits that start with M? Or a suggestion for a future blog post so you won’t be subjected to my mundane musings? (Please don’t unsubscribe!)

 

 

Last chance to win a bunch of great books

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Tomorrow is our mega drawing. This is your last chance to enter to win a bunch of great stories.

Click here to win a fantastic tween book by Mary L. Hamilton called Hear No Evil. Gift a teen with this great story, or better yet, read it as a family and take some time to discuss real life issues. It’s a good read for any age.

Click here to win Linda Kozar’s “Until the Fat Ladies Sing” mysteries. These books are so fun, I know you’ll love them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here to win Necessary Evil, a short story by the co-founder of The Scriblerians, TJ Akers. His story is part of Mike Lynch’s No Revolution Is Too Big series. 

Click here to win Jill Williamson’s newest book, Outcasts (#2 in the Safe Lands series). I’m giving away 1 copy for every 20 new blog or FB followers, so tell your friends!

Click here to win a fantastic Viking story called God’s Daughter by Heather Day Gilbert. Who doesn’t love Vikings? Great for both historical and adventure readers. A real look at how Vikings lived and what they believed.

Click here to win S.R. Karfelt’s Warrior of the Ages. This is part suspense/thriller, part romance and a fun new story world.

All you have to do to win, besides enter, is to follow this blog and/or my FB author page. Click on the link, head to the blog post, fill out the form, and enter to win some great stories—free!

Winners for all giveaways will be announced HERE tomorrow, January 17th. Good luck!

And if you’re interested in my favorite YA reads for 2013, hop over to The Scriblerians blog today.