In the search for one’s dreams, there are many paths that you can take. Some people forge right into them from birth. It seems like they start to conquer their hopes and dreams from the minute theyleave the womb. Others stumble around their entire lives and never really find what they are looking for. Hopefully […]
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Life Changes for Everyone . . .
As we experience life it changes constantly for each of us and in the process we are changed by it. Recently when I attended the visitation to honor a friend’s father who had recently passed away, I was thrown back into memories of my own father’s visitation and funeral. There were so many memories – […]
Patty Pick for 03/15/18 is “Redemption Road” by John Hart
John Hart became one of my favorite authors when I read his first book, “The King of Lies”. He had my attention and the fact that he is a North Carolina author kept my attention. I couldn’t wait to see if his next book lived up to the first, and it did. Now I cannot […]
Patty Pick for 2/8/17 is “The Woman in the Window” by AJ Finn
I had heard and read very good press about this book, but as you all know sometimes a book may not live up to it’s hype. “The Woman in the Window” will grab you by the heart and proceed to squeeze it with fear until you can’t take it any longer. Then it proceeds to […]
The Girl without a Name by Sandra Block
Zoe Goldman is at it again. She is being drawn into the mystery of one of her patients and doing things she shouldn’t to uncover the girl’s identity. In “The Girl Without A Name”, the patient, Jane Doe, does not know who she is or what she was doing when the police found her. She […]
The Last Ballad by Wiley Cash
Earlier this year, I impatiently looked forward to the next novel by Wiley Cash. So you can imagine my excitement to hear that he would be the keynote speaker at the NC Writers Network 2017 Fall Conference. The fact that his next book would be published right before the conference made it even more of […]
Patty Pick for 1/11/18 is “Hillbilly Elegy” by JD Vance
I had read a lot about this book on different forums and it was high on my to-read list. At our annual Book Club dinner in December we do a book exchange, and after much finagling I was able to “steal” away with this book! Yeah! Of course, one of the first things I had to […]
Best Books I Read in 2017 & Books I Can’t Wait to Read in 2018!
The following are some of the best books I read in 2017. They are from different genres and authors. They are by no means a complete list. The books that I have on my list for 2018 are also a small faction of the ones I want to read. But what I want to read […]
My One Word Resolution for 2018 is Present!
To be Present in my life may seem like a no-brainer for a resolution, but I know from a lot of personal experience that we often let everything get in the way of our enjoyment of our life. So while I will probably struggle sometimes to let myself enjoy everything, I am going to try […]
The Holiday Season
The Holidays bring about some of our best memories of our lives, but they can also be stressful. They can also make you realize that you are missing someone special to you that is no longer in your life for one reason or another. The Holiday season can often be a time we look hard […]