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  • Where's your Hope?

    Sometimes loving hurts. As a mother I’ve watched my children make choices that are not only wrong but can also have devastating effects in their lives. My instincts may be to protect them from th

  • Erasing the Caricature

    Ernest Mille Hemmingway once said, “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.” It seems on the surface that all writers and

  • Moving through the Fear

    Recently, my husband and I had the opportunity to attend a marriage seminar. The focus was how to handle conflict and get out of the cycle of pushing each other’s buttons. One of the goals was to

  • Full of Character with Michelle De Bruin

    Welcome Michelle De Bruin to today’s Full of Character Interview. Michelle is a new author with Mantle Rock Publishing. Her first book, Hope for Tomorrow, releases on October 23rd and is curr

  • Write Stuff Wednesday: The Blank Page

    “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – unknown There is nothing more daunting to a writer than the blank page. It’s before the story gets its start that the voices of doub