Loneliness and rejection are tough pills to swallow. And their effect varies according to the reception of the person concerned. So, if you’re already a tough grown-up, you will probably see them as constructive in a way. But if you’re still young and innocent, its effect is a completely different story. This is probably the reason why States allowed restricted foster homes to exist. - See more at:…

In 1964 Mr. Grey suggested I might want to visit New York to get a glimpse of America. His office helped me to get a visitor visa and I bought a flight and hotel package with TWA. I had dreamed about America, the skyscrapers, the opportunities it offered and the different life style people lived. I was full of anticipation. - See more at:…

I have been blessed with numerous opportunities as I lived within the laws of Grace. Between the ages of forty-one to sixty, I have been the director of a middle school program involving a caring, empowering disciplinary approach; I have written and recorded a telecourse that was chosen for national distribution and remained on the air and available for graduate credit from the University of South Dakota for eleven years; and I’ve learned how to operate a resort from the bottom-up by…

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Can we talk?  Conversation with Linda Ballou about her new book

The Cowgirl Jumped Over the Moon…

Today my heart has been totally revitalized by the discovery of the 25th anniversary of Peggy Warren’s “Very Much a Woman’s Book.”  Y’see I’m the friend who was lucky enough to get these writings, before publication, on my fiftieth birthday, a time in my life that was very difficult. I had no words for the pain I was feeling, but in Peggy’s poems I found not only words, but comfort, true connection and sometimes even relief from the pain. Peggy is a true master of simple, yet powerful, even…

I reviewed this book as an audiobook at the request of the narrator, Helen Lloyd. It is also available as an eBook.

Gillian’s world is turned upside down when she is unexpectedly ‘released’ from her job. Her government funding is revoked after the board decides they did not like a paper she wrote on ‘Reactants, resistance, reflexivity and reversal in times of financial…

The Pennsylvania Abolition Society was founded on April 14, 1775 at the Rising Sun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as the “Society for the Relief for Free Negroes unlawfully held in Bondage.” Seventeen of the 24 men who attended initial meetings of the Society were Quakers, or members of the Religious Society of Friends, and Thomas Paine and Anthony Benezet were among its founders. Benezet, who was a leading Quaker educator, called the society together two years after he persuaded the…

Just as Edgar Allan Poe’s fictional characters obsessed over objects like a vulture’s eye, a black cat or death itself, there’s something about his poems and short stories that we can’t ignore. Perhaps it’s because his kind of horror is something not easily forgotten, for it can disturb the subconscious, thrill us to the bone, and reveal the darkest tendencies of the human mind. - See more at:…

July 11^th.

It looks like I missed a week, but lots have occurred which kind of diverted me. Hospital appointments get in the way. So essential of course, but they do take up a lot of time. Last Monday I went into Chichester and introduced myself to the Waterstones manager. He was very pleasant and didn’t throw me out of the shop. I was able to talk about CHINDI, the writers group I often mention now. He said he wouldn’t be averse to doing a book launch, but would…

Indian farmers discovered they had been cheated, because government officers had taken their farmed land, using powers of eminent domain laid out in India’s colonial-era land acquisition law, at a very cheap price. Then the acquired had been sold to private sectors at 14 times what the farmers received as compensation. The original price had been inflated 14 times. This is definitely an unsavoury sales tactic. The private companies must be allowed to deal directly with the farmers, to…

During the years of the Civil War, death and dying became an even stronger focus of interest. This had been the case before the war, when most people died at home surrounded on their deathbed by family. But during the war many families were suffering the loss of loved ones in the war, from disease as well as combat, often far from home and family. In Sean A. Scott’s work, two main focuses for comfort were put forth. The first was the religious, dying the perfect death and going to be with…

Shadows of shame, exist in darkness,

but are not concealed from my God.

Ungodly behaviors can never be hidden,

from Him, Who is omnipotent, omniscient

and omnipresent; Truth can’t be overridden.

Shadows of shame, are easily dispersed

by Jehovah’s piercing Light of Truth;

when looking to Him for assistance,

one’s face will become radiant with joy

from acting with loyalty and persistence.

Shadows of shame, contradict God’s desire …

I'm blogging about the Mormon village depicted in The Tithing Herd. Come on over: http://jrlindermuth.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-faithful-depiction.html

Former foster youths are not prepared adequately for self–sufficiency upon aging out of foster care. Even though the average youth in the United States is not expected to reach self-sufficiency until age 26, youth who aged out of the foster care must care for themselves at age 18.



These youth will continue to need help and guidance, and this is why the Foster Care Independence Act was enacted on December 14, 1999. The Act aims to help youth who aged out of foster care in obtaining…

One Sunday morning, Mr. Grey was looking up from his newspaper. “Would you like to see Texas and work as a Stewardess?” he asked me. There was an ad that says an airline in Texas was hiring new girls for their airline. He suggested I send a letter and see what happens, and I did. I received an answer and was invited to fly to Texas for an interview. I felt I wasn’t ready for such a leap, so I didn’t pursue this opportunity. I was only twenty-three at that time and I needed time to evaluate…

The story in this book is intriguing.

Can we be two places at one time?

Is it really possible to observe yourself from another…

I can vividly recall specific times in my adult life when Grace continued to support my actions. As I left my reservation home at the age of eighteen, I decided to fulfill my goal of becoming a registered nurse by attending a diploma school of nursing. It was during this time that I met my husband Ken.



It was fate, or I should say, Synchronicity, when we met during a get-acquainted dance. Ken was a senior at the local college, and he was allowed to attend the activities of student…