Monthly Archives: December 2011

Year-End Top 15 Countdown

As we wrap up 2011, which was a helluva year for me personally, professionally and socially, I thought I’d take a look back at my blog and see what my top 15 posts were, according to my readers. Why a Top … Continue reading

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Love Big

What a beautiful time of year. When we embrace it, we reflect, appreciate and grow from the last 12 months. For many there is grieving. The world turns its focus on family and giving, but what if we have no family … Continue reading

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No Christmas Tree For Christmas

Editor’s Note: I realize that Christmas has come and gone, but some people, myself included, have overcome so much in our lives, whether it be addiction, cancer, depression, bipolar disorder, anorexia, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy or autism, and we have … Continue reading

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Author’s Roundtable: R.S. Guthrie

I heard you have a book coming out this week. What’s it called and what is it about? It’s called LOST, and it is the second in my Denver mystery series featuring Detective Bobby Mac. In the first book, Mac … Continue reading

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On the Road With Mary Sarah

1. How did your interest in music get started? Did you sing in church when you were younger? Did your family sing or play instruments?   I began singing at 10 with my piano instructor, who told me since I … Continue reading

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Inspirations by Janet: Christmas Traditions

Inspirations by Janet: Christmas Traditions By Janet Izzo   And the Grinch with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or … Continue reading

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The True Story of Rudolph

A man named Bob May, depressed and brokenhearted, stared out his drafty apartment window into the chilling December night. His four-year-old daughter, Barbara, sat on his lap quietly sobbing. Bob’s wife, Evelyn, was dying of cancer. Little Barbara couldn’t understand … Continue reading

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Top Ten Divorce Myths

1. Half of all marriages end in divorce. That may have been the case several decades ago, but the divorce rate has been dropping since the early 1980s. If today’s divorce rate continues unchanged into the future, the chances that … Continue reading

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The Christmas Ten Commandments

1. Thou shalt give thy heart to Christ. Let Him be at the top of thy Christmas list.   2. Thou shalt prepare thy soul for Christmas. Spend not so much on gifts that thy soul is forgotten.   3. … Continue reading

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A Frontier Christmas

I always love a good Christmas story, and this one is BY FAR one of, if not THE, best Christmas stories I have ever read, seen or heard. I hope you enjoy it and it warms your heart like it … Continue reading

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