Southern Living Yankee

PRAYER REQUEST: MOVING MOUNTAINS The purpose of this blog is to gather pray-ers around me for God's leading me in this writing ministry. God has me exactly where He wants me: fully dependent on Him. I went to a writers conference in July, just wondering if I might get a little direction to do something, or how to do something with the Ruth Bible study I wrote a couple years ago. I got more than a "little" direction. Three editors asked for a book proposal! This is NOT NORMAL! "Normal" is fortunate to get to see an editor, "blessed" is to be asked for a proposal by anyone! But then, (such life-altering words in scripture-"but then") last night I was asked for ANOTHER book proposal! Now I have not just one, but TWO books to write! Again, very unusual. In publishing, writing a book proposal is not a guarantee that your book will be published. It is only the first step in a journey that could be aborted at any time, for any whim. But . . . it is ...

DINOSAUR CREATES OWN BLOG! At 8:39 this morning a 50 year old female techno dinosaur, known to be timid and skittish in all computer skills beyond email, was seen hunched over a laptop. The binoculared observer watched this abberation in horror. What could be going on? Head banging? A feeding frenzy? A near fatal computer crash? Did she discover how to use a credit card on Amazon? Ebay? No screaming or crying were observed. The subject was relatively calm, only brief flashes of confusion crossed her face, quickly followed by "aha" moments. The entire encounter seemed new to the dinosaur, but relatively painless. The observer was able to relax. Blogging. The subject would be fine. It's so easy, you could set up a blog, too! Here's how I did it: 1) Decide which blog service to use. To alleviate my "analysis paralysis" which results from too many choices, I used the "good nuff" method: blogspot.com was good enough for the 3 people I know who have a bl...