As you know, if you’ve read my blogs, I am an inveterate reader. As a matter of fact, my entire family is readers. I have my parents to thank for that. They read to us before we could read, and they encouraged us in our learning to read. We, of course, have passed this down to our children, Lucas and Lacy, who also are great readers (as well as Lucas’ three daughters.) Now we have a bunch of people with their noses stuck in books at any time.
I can share a little vignette about our oldest granddaughter’s life. She has been reading since before she went to school. She read all the time. When she was about 5 or 6, her parents had to limit her reading time simply because she was constantly reading. But that is a thing of her past. What do you think she is doing now? She’s a senior at Mid-America Nazarene University, where she is a full-time librarian. Isn’t God good?
My husband is a consummate reader and writer, and I hope to get a book of his poetry out, but life has slowed me down. For a while. A look at my website will reveal my prior planning for this. He’ll have to OK it, of course.
If you have been following me for a long time, you know that I have written a series of children’s books, which I call my Down Home on the Farm series. Books #6 & #7 are on their way. And that will be the end of the series, unless my tootsie, Lacy Dale Lovett, takes over and writes more.
But she has her hands pretty well occupied with—oh, let’s see…how does she keep busy? (Busyness, which, by the way, cuts into her leisure reading time.)
1. Circulation and Production Editor for Ethics and Medicine at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
2. Owner/creator at L.D. Creations, Inc.
3. Owner/writer/editor/creator at Redemptive Word Craft
4. Media and Adult Discipleship Curriculum Coordinator at Living Water Evangelical Free Church in Oskaloosa, KS; and writer of Vacation Bible School curricula.
So, she stays busy, even discarding the fact that she and her husband, Mark, always enjoy her Aunt Polly, who has been with them for 2 ½ years
And NOW, I am about to get to the real reason for my blog. (Bragging rights are always a parent’s prerogative.)
Drum roll. One of our sweet daughters from Sierra Leone, West Africa, is a published author as well!!! (Now we’re looking forward to when our girl, Sia, tries her hand at the book-writing gig.)
CLICK on the image to visit Isatu Boyce’s website.
When my dear friend and mentor, Kathy Perry, of Chickadee Words, (not to be confused with singer Katy Perry) and I went down to visit Maria, they immediately hit it off. When Kathy heard about Maria and the fact that she had written her biography—without hands—she went full speed ahead to help her publish it.
Lo-and-behold: TA DA!! Our sweet Maria’s story is in print! You may order her compelling book directly from her website, IsatuBoyce.com, or Amazon, etc. In her book entitled Overcoming the Bitterness of War, she writes of her childhood in Sierra Leone and the bitter civil war that killed and maimed so many citizens of that beautiful country. The tag line is perfect: “In moments of deep darkness, faith offers a light.”
I hope you will visit her website and order books from her. She has quite the tale to tell. Afterward, please review it on Amazon, Goodreads, and/or Barnes & Noble.
Now that I have rambled on, it is my prayer that you will have a glorious Memorial Day.
Take time to sit in the shade with a tall, iced tea and read a good book.
You’ll be glad you did.