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Celebration Time--Forget Me Not!

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CHAPTER 1 ZONE LAUNCHES

Today, I've launched a new Special Project, CHAPTER 1 ZONE.

The purpose is to provide a forum where authors and readers can connect through the first chapter of the author's novel.

A chapter will be featured for a week. The first feature is James Rollins' ALTER OF EDEN.

Additionally, there will be a weekly drawing for a free novel contest for those who choose to enter.

Read more about the CHAPTER 1 ZONE Special Project HERE.

Or skip straight to the reading and figure it out as you go by clicking HERE.

I hope authors and readers will connect and readers will find authors whose work they love!

Blessings,

Vicki

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Join Me Today on blogtalkradio at 2

I'm doing an interview on blogtalkradio.com today at 2 PM. Listen in HERE.

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Mistakes We Make #11 & Vicki Talks Writing on TV Tonight

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Note: Vicki will be appearing on WSRE (PBS) tonight at 7 PM talking about writing.

Part 1: Mistakes We Make

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Memorial

On October 15th, my beloved mother-in-law, Leona Hinze, was diagnosed with terminal cancer. She has now passed.

She was a courageous woman to the very end, and one who experienced many changes in her ninety-one years. For 68 of those years, she played the organ for her church, St. John’s Lutheran. In my 34 years with her, she often said when she reached playing for a hundred weddings, she was going to retire, but then someone would ask her to play for their wedding and she always did. At the time of her death, she had played 127 weddings and over 300 funerals.

Music was her ministry and her passion, and I, along with many others, were privileged to hear her express her heartfelt passion often and for a long time.

Once, when I thought I was dying, I told her I had been blessed. I’d had a life of being well loved and of loving well. In real life, that’s about the best it gets. A few days before her death, she told me that she’d thought about loving and being loved and she’d been blessed with a wonderful life. Now and forever all of us treasure those words from her and we’re comforted by them.

In lieu of flowers, the family has requested contributions to the Leona Hinze Memorial Fund at St. John’s Lutheran Church. The address is 3316 Hummingbird Lane at Hwy 77, Robstown, Tx 78380. This memorial fund is dedicated to a new organ for the church.

Blessings,

Vicki

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Dealing with the Holidays

Holidays are supposed to be happy times of celebration. Times when friends and families gather and share the joys of the season.


So why then are holidays the most stressful times of the year? Why do suicide rates soar? So many suffer depression and others are absolutely miserable?


In part, the very thing that brings us together--holidays--also brings to bear the greatest stresses.


Here are a few of the substantial stressors that magnify during the holidays:


Additional tasks.


There are more obligations and social events to host and/or attend. Gifts to buy, special meals to shop for and prepare, trees, houses--inside and out--classrooms, offices, stores or other workplaces or additional places (church, lodge, club) to decorate, presents to wrap, cards to send and a multitude of other preparations to make. Social obligations/engagements require extra preparation time (program practices, dishes to make, clothes to wear selected or shopped for, haircuts and so on).


If others are “coming home for the holiday” to your home, as glad as you’ll be to see them, that’s more tasks on your To-Do List. If you’re going home, there are travel plans and packing, making sure the car is ready for the trip or tickets to purchase and schedules to coordinate, and much more.


Holidays--even when we are looking forward to them--break routines and place extra demands on our schedules. They require preparation that demands extra efforts from us. If your schedule is normally hectic, during the holidays it can become frantic.


What can you do? The extra work isn’t going to minimize just because you wish it would. That means you have to act to make the effort less stressful. Here are a couple tips:    READ MORE...