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When I first started reading The American Catholic Almanac, I was afraid that it might be boring because I link the term “almanac” with dull statistical facts, but this reference book is anything but boring. Since I home school my kids, we know a fair amount about American Catholic history, so some of the stories and histories were familiar, but they were taken from…
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1) Monday the washing machine was fixed and life began to return to normal – with the exception that every time I saw that particular appliance I felt ridiculously happy. Nothing like clean laundry to do a mother’s heart good.
2) My second daughter performed at her first violin recital on Sunday and played the Canon in D andThe River Flows in You and…
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1) Our washing machine broke this week and for a while it looked like there was little chance it would be fixed any time soon. I briefly considered a nearly suicidal attempt to hand wash the clothes (yes, for all nine of us – like I said – it was a brief thought) but then I considered how hard and time consuming that would be, so I then imagined having the kids clean their own clothes.…
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I am, at the moment, holding a fussy five year old. It doesn’t make for the greatest writing conditions – but I suspect God has a point here. I have long believed that the best gift I can give my kids is my focused attention. Now that being said, I home school seven of my eight children, and unless I devise some method of dividing myself up into pieces on a routine basis,…
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There are a lot of fruit themes in history. Genesis begins with a garden setting and the command: “You may eat of the fruit of any tree in the garden except the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.” Not even attempting to dissect the motivations of why God would make a tree that He summarily tells His people to shun – I still have the opportunity to…
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1) There are a lot of ways to die – but if you’ve gone to the movies recently you’ve probably seen at least 2,465,399,753.2 of those ways, including ingenious new methods of going through buildings. Not to make fun of death. Death is real and not something to joke about. But really, I am about apocalypsed out. The daily headlines are scary enough. I need some good…
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1) Actually getting to Mars might be a little tricky, but I can see why there is some fascination with leaving this world to visit another one – any other one. Sometimes it seems that the troubles we face here are so overwhelming we can’t possibly get past them, while the challenges of a new life somewhere else seem soooo remote. The fantasy of “what if…” outweighs the fears…
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Reviewed By Karen Pirnot for Readers’ Favorite In Neb the Great: Shadows of the Past, author A.K. Frailey offers the last in the Deliverance Trilogy. Not having read the first two books of the trilogy, I did not feel at all disadvantaged in reviewing this book on its own. The book is beautifully conceptualized and developed and was easy for this… |
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Anyone following this blog will be aware of the pre-launch virtual book tour that’s been going on. As a thank-you to each blogger hosting me and my next book on their site, I’ve been sharing features of either themselves, their blogs, or their books if they are authors as well. Tomorrow is the second-to-last blog stop on tour, which means the overlap talked about in July’s…
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The real cover for Georgios is still in design, but here is a glimpse of an idea we are working with. And here is a sneak preview of the first chapter. More next week. Enjoy!
Georgios
Chapter One
The Island of Patmos
Circa Anno Domini…
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The imagination is a funny thing. We fill in the blanks of our understanding with images that comfort or frighten us, as the case may be. In ancient days we filled in the blanks about angels with wings and clouds. After all, we knew through faith that God created a separate race of beings who could move with the speed of thought and were always in the presence of God. So wings and clouds made sense. As our scientific minds have reached further into the outer recesses of our universe so we…
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I am happy to announce that Neb the Great made Honorable Mention in the 2014Hollywood Book Festival in genre based fiction. This means that every book of The Deliverance Trilogy has won something. ARAM won runner up for an Indie Publishing Contest. Ishtar’s Redemption made…
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1) Pickles are nearly a stable around my house which is why my motto for the cucumber patch is “plant ‘em early, pick ‘em quick.” This year my three youngest daughters decided that they wanted to learn the art of pickling and since I had just picked up the pickling packets (say THAT three times fast!) I was already for the adventure. We made over six quart jars which will last us say, three…
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Well, another way of saying it, “canning”, might not be so impressive though the reality behind the thought still is. I grew up in the city and when I got my first real view of a farm in mid-summer I was absolutely amazed at the vastness of growing life all around me. I had honestly thought that the world was covered in cities and that farms were just squeezed in between.…
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Welcome to A.K. Frailey’s Book Review Monday. Here are my first picks. Enjoy!
Treason – A Catholic Novel of Elizabethan England by Dena Hunt is definitely one of the best books I have read recently. This is a well written account not merely of a historical time period (Elizabethan England) but a reflection on the…
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Join us at 7-Quick Takes Friday!
1) I really admire people who defend their faith with a cool sense of humor. Erin McCole-Cupp does that and she has written one of the best reviews I have ever read of one of the best books I have ever read. See her review of Dena Hunt’s new book, The Lion’s Heart. http://erinmccolecupp.com/2014/06/25/wwrw-the-lions-heart-by-dena-hunt/ ;…
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Son number one announced the other day that he just read a report where scientists haven’t really figured out why human beings need to sleep. Hmmm… Yes, there’s the whole, we’ll go crazy without sleep, but then the question still arises, why? Why can’t simple rest do the job? So I pondered the question deeply and I think I, little ol’ Ann Frailey, have the answer –…
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