The Aubrey Rose Foundation assists families of children with life-threatening illnesses. It is named for Aubrey Rose Hollenkamp, a child whose battle with complications from Scimitar Syndrome ended in November of 2000, when she passed away just two days before her third birthday.
Birmingham is one of my favorite places to visit–I love the shopping (the Summit!), the restaurants (Cheesecake Factory, Jim and Nicks, Kobe…), and the rolling beauty of the countryside. Bryan, Nathan, and I just spent a lovely weekend there to witness our oldest son, Adam, as he received awards at UAB’s Thirty-fourth Annual Honors Convocation.
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I recently discovered that my childhood friend, Robyn Jackson, is the author of a wonderful novel set in the 1800s. Her book, Lakota Moon, dramatically portrays the romantic adventure of Mary Eliza McElroy, a young pioneer girl who is captured by a Lakota warrior during her family’s wagon train journey to Oregon.
At my last post, I mentioned (boasted, gushed…so sorry) that I won first place in the annual “Let’s Write” contest sponsored by the Gulf Coast Writers Association. My winning non-fiction entry, “The Privacy Curtain,” has recently been published on their website. To view it, click here, go to the “Let’s Write” Literary Contest portion of [...]
A few months ago, I decided to submit an excerpt from my unpublished book, Nathan: A Heart, A Storm, A Prayer, to the Gulf Coast Writers Association’s annual writing contest, “Let’s Write!” I’ve never entered a writing contest before, so I had it in my mind that I would be thrilled to place.
Well, guess what! [...]
