Welcome to Whispering Woods Friday. Those of you who are reading my newly released book, Whispering Woods, will find a post on Fridays about the book, characters, setting, insights into writing, and all things interesting about The Grand Lady Victorian Mansion.

The idea for the book began about two years ago. I was “between books” so to speak, having finished the things I set out to write on my literary journey.  I was watching Cedar Cove, the popular show written…..

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The last stanza of the Star-Spangled Banner.  Sing it, pray it, thank God for the men and women who fought for our nation’s independence, for those who defend her freedom, and for those whose purpose is to continue preserving the freedoms others have earned on our behalf. Let us remain vigilant, and most of all grateful that we are Americans!

“Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved home and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory…..

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