Tying the Past to the Present: Looking Through the Lens of History to Learn Lessons for Today This is the theme of my website–its raison d’être. When the site first went up, I said the “Past, recent, and present history is included in this website’s definition of HIStory. The purpose is to inform, encourage, and entertain.” Though I am interested in historical information garnered while researching for my novels, I’m more interested to learn how lessons from the past, recent or distant, can be applied to my life today. What can I learn from people who lived centuries before me? Did they struggle with…
Dr. Ronald Hanson: Orthocure Clinic
Dr. Ronald Hanson, OrthoCure Clinic You’ve been asking and waiting, and now your patience has paid off. Dr. Hanson is now open for business! Check out his OrthoCure Clinic. Many of you contacted me via this website to testify to how much pain relief you got after your treatments with Dr. Hanson, your disappointment he no longer practiced in Colorado, and your desire to reach him. My husband, Dwight, and I were fortunate to meet up with this highly-skilled and knowledgeable doctor in July 2015 and again in the middle of April 2016. If you remember from an earlier post, my…
In Search of Destiny
In Search of Destiny: Book Two in the Destiny Trilogy If you read Dodging Destiny, did you wonder what happened to the people Lexie Logan left behind in the nineteenth century? I did. Originally, Dodging Destiny was written to be a stand-alone novel, but all of my beta-readers told me I couldn’t stop with the first novel. They wanted to know what happened to the characters when the Civil War broke out. They wondered how Lexie’s experience changed her after she returned to the twenty-first century. I listened and began to research. Book Two, In Search of Destiny, is now available for…
Dodging Destiny
Have you ever tried to run from your Destiny? Destiny can be defined as . . . “something that is to happen or has happened to a particular person or thing; lot or fortune,” but the word can also mean, “the power or agency that determines the course of events.” For Christians, that power or agency is God. Isaiah 55:11 (ESV) says, “so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Check out…
Undoing Life’s Mistakes: David Stearman
A Visit with David Stearman David Stearman is a songwriter/recording artist/novelist, who specializes in adventure stories set in exotic locales. He has a special love for the tropics, jungles and beaches which is reflected in both his novels and personal life, in the form of hobbies such as breeding parrots and growing orchids. David is involved in missionary work, and because of his speaking and concert engagement travels widely. His stories reflect the life he lives and places he visits in a way that makes his readers feel as if they’ve been there too. David, what were the factors that…