Karen Carr
Iowa author, Karen Carr, grew up on a Northwestern Iowa farm several miles from town. As a voracious reader, she was at loose ends in the summertime when school libraries weren’t available. Desperate for something to read, she’d borrow books from her dad’s...
Love Note #20
“He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in...
Bethany Jett
Nebraska-born author, Bethany Jett has lived most of her life in Florida but considers herself #FloGrown. So much so that after a recent trip to Missouri where the mercury plummeted into the 20s, she promised her husband that Florida would be their forever home....
A Good Day
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:18-19 You are welcome to share memes from my website on social...
Love Note #19
“How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light.”...
Ringing Out the Old …
It looks like the 2018 Little Red Caboose has rolled into the station. Wow! Another year gone and a new one looms. That means it’s time to shove off in search of new stories … but not before I thank the many authors who’ve supported and continue to support my writing...
Broken Things
The first ornament I reached for slipped from my grasp, fell to the floor, and shattered. No big deal. I have another just like it―a replacement. As I picked up the pieces, I thought of how broken things are sometimes easily repaired, but things which are...
Christ is Born
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Love Note #18
Cheryl Crofoot Knapp
As a former magician’s assistant, Cheryl Crofoot Knapp tried hard to not get sliced into three parts; and yet, where magicians failed—life prevailed. Her multifaceted journey has ushered her from her reign as Mrs. Minnesota-America 1996 to years of compassionate...
A Few Good Men
"After seeing him, the shepherds told everyone what had happened and what the angel had said to them about this child." —Luke 2:17, NIV I only had one line, but I executed it well. Standing as tall as a preschooler could stand, I looked out across the crowd of...
Inspirations
AS PROMISED! A little something extra just in time for Christmas. Thrive Special Edition, INSPIRATIONS, Devotions by Starr Ayers. On Sale Now! $9.95, The Courier-Tribune, 500 Sunset Avenue, Asheboro, NC 27203 or contact Starr at starrayers@triad.rr.com for mail order....
