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By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The calendar now says summer is coming to a close. Wasn’t it just spring? What happened to the summer of 2020? Because of the pandemic and the guidelines set into place to protect all of us, our summer expectations probably didn’t happen. Instead, we acquired new skills and faced a new normal. I saw a meme …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills I can’t think of a better way to celebrate nature and wildlife than to experience one of our 61 national parks. Millions of acres spread across 29 states and 2 territories. Sounds like great vacation spots to me. Summer may be nearing a close for rich growth. Yet imagine many of these parks in vibrant fall …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Thousands of novels are released each year in genres for every reader’s taste. So many wonderful and amazing books, and we’ll never be able to read them all. But we try. What’s the fascination for story? Why do we crave the next novel and the next? Here are seven reasons why people love story. Entertainment is …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills What would you give your family if you won the lottery? Let’s dream a little about winning a huge amount of money. Do we really know our family? While our aspirations sound noble and unselfish, our intentions may have the potential to reach comedic or nightmarish proportions. My suspense writer’s imagination has just exploded onto the …
By DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills The privilege of grandparenting is a gift from God. Children who benefit from our unconditional love are knit in the core of our hearts and souls. We may have difficulty expressing the emotions in words, but our actions show the extraordinary link. One reason God established the family is to teach us love, sacrifice, and the …
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, …
