by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 11, 2025 | A Smidgeon of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
Hello, friends! I’ve been thinking about hope and the past and I’ve come to a conclusion. I don’t believe in the good ol’ days. Nope. I truly believe each season of my life has had its share of the positive and negative. Highs and lows....
by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 7, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Hello, Friday Fiction Friends! March has arrived and I’m more than ready for an early spring. How about you? In Alabama, March can bring freezing weather, snow, tornadoes, or 70+ degree weather. And this can all happen in a twenty-four-hour period… But...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 4, 2025 | A Smidgeon of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
Hope. Sometimes you find it in unexpected places. Like a quote from St. Augustine–a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa, born in 354 AD. St. Augustine said, “God loves each of us as if there...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Feb 28, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts
If you like fantasy (dystopian or medieval or both), action and adventure, clean romance, and deep themes, The Nightingale Trilogy by J. J. Fischer belongs on your bookshelf. After Calor and Lumen, the trilogy finishes with Memoria, a novel with a beautiful cover and...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Feb 25, 2025 | A Smidgeon of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
The beginning of 2025 has not been exactly peaceful. Many events and circumstances have made it hard to lie down at night and just relax. Rest. Those worrisome thoughts. You know the ones: Have I finished everything I was supposed to do today? Did I pray enough? Will...
by Cammi Woodall | Feb 21, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Favorite Friday Fiction
At six years old, I firmly believed that I was capable – if it became necessary due to an evil millionaire wanting my ‘powers’ – of leaving home by myself, travelling across the United States, and finding a mysterious mountain I’d never heard of before. Why did I...
