Nicole here: I met Mandee Widrick through a Social Media Managers group on Facebook — she saw the horse in my profile picture and sent me a message right away! When I looked into her web consulting and speaking business I was blown away. She started the beautiful online magazine, Horse Family (which is soon to unveil a live streaming or radio show feature) and she’s also been to speak at the American Horse Publications annual seminar, which I’ve attended in the past. Clearly, this is a girl to be on the lookout for! First-Horse Horror Stories — We’ve all got ’em. For Mandee, her first horse nearly made her...
What we should aspire to become
There’s no shortage of amazing people in this world. Look past the salacious headlines and popular rabble and you’ll find artists, musicians, actors, writers and so many more who dedicate their lives to others. And then they surprise in yet another way. Last night, I attended the Amy Grant and Michael W Smith Two Friends Tour at Rolling Hills Community Church. They were fantastic. Both artists are involved with charities such as Compassion International and the world is all the better because of them. And then Amy Grant shares a little story. She and a few of her band members decided to explore Portland by bicycle (since their tour...
Review: The Aristocrat’s Lady
Description: For a few moments on a moonlit balcony, Nicole Beaumont was just a beautiful woman catching the eye of the handsome Lord Devlin—but she knew the illusion couldn’t last. If the enigmatic aristocrat knew her secret, he’d realize that her disability left her unfit for love. So who could blame her for hiding the truth a little longer? Devlin had never met a woman like Nicole. Her unique combination of innocence and wisdom left him utterly intrigued. Yet what was she hiding? For a man who did not trust easily, discovering her secret was devastating. Overcoming their pasts and forging a future would take faith, forgiveness and trust. And...
Review: Wings of a Dream
Description: Rebekah Hendricks dreams of a life far beyond her family’s farm in Oklahoma, and when dashing aviator Arthur Samson promised adventure in the big city, she is quick to believe he’s the man she’s meant to marry. While she waits for the Great War to end and Arthur to return to her so they can pursue all their plans, her mother’s sister falls ill. Rebekah seizes the opportunity to travel to Texas to care for Aunt Adabelle, seeing this chance to be closer to Arthur’s training camp as God’s approval of her plans. But the Spanish flue epidemic changes everything. Faced with her aunt’s death, Arthur’s indecisiveness, and four...
Story Behind the Story: Mary Moore
I’m a Regency fanatic. I fell in love with the time period when I read my first one at age 15. As the years went by, however, the stories became more and more predictable (given the fact that the Regency period only encompasses about 15 years in England’s history, it did limit the story lines). But 15 years ago I came up with my own idea for a story, different than I’d ever read, and I wrote it. Basically, I wrote it for me. I was experiencing medical problems and it took doctors two years to diagnose me with Lupus. In my story, the heroine faces struggles in her...