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By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Today is National Milk Chocolate Day, that sweet, fat-laden, delicious treat that we learned to love as kids. I’m not talking about dark chocolate or the healthy varieties that provide a percentage of the real thing. I’m referring to what many of us eat behind closed doors where no one monitors the amount of comfort food …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Summer heat means we want easy recipes that keep us out of a hot kitchen. I’m always looking for something yummy, and this week I want to share a few taste treats with you. Baba Ghanouj or Ganoush (Roast Eggplant Puree) This eggplant delicacy is light, nutritious, high on flavor, and incredibly good. Source: The Food …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Today’s Guest Blog Post Written by Curt Iles @CurtIles I’ve got hiking fever. It strikes me several times a year and I find my heart, if not my feet, on a trail in Arkansas or the Appalachian Mountains. In both of these hiking locales, encountering black bears does occur. I want to share a few good …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills A few weeks ago, my husband announced we should take a road trip … and he wanted to leave in three days. We aren’t spontaneous, but obviously that trait played no factor in our enthusiasm. Perhaps it was the country moving slowly away from strict guidelines for COVID 19 that spurred our trip What I do …
DiAnnMills @DiAnnMills Today’s Guest Blog Post is written by Brandon Guindon @BrandonGuindon I write this letter to you after being on the other side of a great yet difficult journey. I write after sitting on the southern facing side of a mountain where the sun shines best. This letter comes from someone that navigated the treacherous path of deep hurt, …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Last week I introduced you to my June 9th eBook release WHERE TOMORROW LEADS, Book 2 of my Hope for Sudan series where three people from separate cultures continue their life journeys in southern Sudan. Today’s post shares my continued passion for the Sudanese people and a bit more about the story. Illiteracy remains rampant, and …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills In today’s blog post, I want to share about my upcoming June 9th eBook release WHERE TOMORROW LEADS. The characters I introduced in last year’s LONG WALK HOME continue in their life journeys through the war-torn, disease-ridden Sudan. The three, Ben, Paul & Larson, must decide if they can learn to trust God in all things, …
DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills While teaching a creative writing class to a group of high school students, I challenged them to write a flash fiction story. Sam won the competition. Sam is a junior at Colonel Crawford High School in Ohio. After graduation, she plans to study forensics and hopeful for a career in that field. She is active in National …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers have a plethora of writing project ideas from which to choose. Life is full of words and scenarios that refuse to let us go—overheard conversations, history, local and worldwide events, movies, and other publications. Even when we dream, we are filling our imagination with ways to form our words into sentences, paragraphs, pages, and books. …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnn Mills I believe fiction can be a vehicle to communicate truth. From the moment I sensed a call to write, I understood my focus would be using story. This isn’t an original concept. Jesus spoke in parables and is known for deepening spiritual principles through the power of story. When disciples asked Him why, I have …
