By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills DiAnn Mills Friend, please don’t open the unwanted Christmas gift of stress. The black paper and black bow with an attaching-grabbing tag, Open Me First will spoil your celebration. You’ll recognize the items inside: Friend, cut short any family or friend events. You have too much work to do. Friend, stress is your friend. If you …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The Tuesday after Thanksgiving is National Day of Giving for many charities in the USA and the world. Perhaps you refer to the day as Giving Hope Day, Celebrate Generosity Day, or Day of Giving. In the USA, we’ve just celebrated a feast of thankfulness for God’s blessings. We pray for God to smile on us …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Thanksgiving is a time to enjoy family and friends, to put people first, and celebrate the blessings God has given us. The best advice I can give is to unplug—That means turning off the busyness of the outside world by silencing our phones and other electronic devices. Determine to participate in old-fashioned, face-to-face conversation. I hear …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills We writers thrive on our projects entering a theater of encouragement, an area in which readers react and respond to what we’ve written. And we hope positively. In the true sense of the word, a theater uses a stage to present a real or fictionalized event to those who crave an emotional experience. Thus, our characters …
DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post by Linda Lyle Do you ever find yourself going down the anxiety rabbit hole? Like many businesses, writing is a feast or famine. I am either waiting to hear back from editors, agents, and publishers, or I am overwhelmed by deadlines and details. Either way I feel anxious as I wonder how it will all …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Special quotes use emotion and creativity to express how we feel. A twist of a phrase or a unique word speaks a fresh meaning into our lives and shape us to become better people with optimism and joy. The following quotes about autumn, harvest, and Thanksgiving fill me with fresh enthusiasm for the fall season. “I …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Our lives can easily slip into a routine that substitutes Jesus-driven devotion for performance-driven actions. We don’t intend for worldly concerns to take our Lord’s place. Priorities hammer our schedules, and we slip into what others expect of us. We go through our quiet times and church activities as before, but our mindset changes. The transition …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Melanie Dobson and I are thrilled to host an evening of harvest inspiration filled with fun, giveaways, and hope. We long to help you and your loved ones celebrate a blessed autumn season. Please join us online Tuesday, October 24, 2023, at 7:00 p.m. CST. You won’t be disappointed. Details below. Melanie and I will be …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The fall season takes me to one of my favorite books—cookbooks. One of my favorite treats is pancakes for breakfast—or any snack or meal. While thumbing through recipes, I thought I’d share a few of my go-to pancake recipes. Lemon Ricotta Pancakes Servings: Servings: 8 Ingredients: 1-3/4 cups All-Purpose Flour 1 Tbl. Baking Powder 1 tsp. …
DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Guest Post By Melanie Dobson @MelanieDobson When I began writing The Wings of Poppy Pendleton, I traveled to my setting in New York to explore the mysterious Thousand Islands and tour its Gilded Age castles. Since one of my main characters—a hard-working man named Cade—was an island caretaker for about seventy years, I wanted to learn everything …
