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Basic Accountability Tools for Improving Physical Wholeness

October 22, 2017

ac-count-abil-i-ty • noun: the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s actions Once you’ve discovered your workout style and thought about what kind of copilot you want, you may want to consider accountability tools to help keep you on track to physical wholeness. For many years, Clancy, and then Bella served as my fitness copilots. Their soulful brown eyes kept me on track—even when I didn’t feel like exercising. In fact, these two amazing German Shepherds knew how to train me.…

Fall into the Pages of these September New Releases!

September 3, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Book Reviews, Inspirational, Young Adult

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The Space Between Words September 5 Michele Phoenix The story grabs the reader from the prologue, where we learn about Adeline Baillard, a French Huguenot in the 17th century France whose life hangs in the balance. Fast-forward more than three hundred years to the eve of the Paris attacks, where we meet Jessica, an American tourist. She and her housemate Vonda have come to visit their other housemate, Patrick, who has taken time from his business to attend art classes.…

The Surprising Way to Find Comfort

July 17, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Self-care and Nurture

9 Comments

Comfort, the Verb I step around the counter into my daughter’s kitchen and start fixing breakfast. A minute or two later, I hear an inquisitive “Bah?” from the living room. “Bah!” I answer. “Ahw!” The thunks of hands and knees on the wood floor increase in pace as Abel uses ‘echolocation’ to find me. I glance over and see his strawberry-blonde curls. His head bends down in concentration as he crawls into the kitchen, sits up, and turns in a…

Four Gripping July Releases and an Older Gripping Tale

July 2, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Book Reviews, Inspirational, Non-Fiction

15 Comments

A Name Unknown—July 4 Roseanna M. White. Bethany House. 432 pages. Rosemary Gresham has skills that draw the attention of the mysterious Mr. V—a man who wants her to research Mr. Peter Holstein and find evidence of his disloyalty to England. Rosemary accepts the job because the pay will keep her large family from destitution. Although her expertise involves theft, her gift for languages and study of the upper classes allows her to pose as a librarian looking for work.…

A Shower of April New Releases

May 7, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Book Reviews, Inspirational, Non-Fiction

6 Comments

Intrigue and Romance (Not Necessarily in that Order) Behind the Scenes by Jen Turano (April 4) With a name like Permilia, you know the characters will be filled with quirks and foibles. Permilia might be a society wallflower, but she manages to work behind the scenes to create an acceptable life for herself that’s meaningful and stimulating. Asher thinks he has no room in his life for Permilia—a woman who doesn’t fit his ideal of a perfect life partner—despite the…

The Simple Antidote to Not Enough: Praise

April 9, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Photography, Self-care and Nurture

14 Comments

Feeling Like I’m Not Enough I wander along the road in the desert, feeling off-kilter and slightly out-of-sorts. Maybe my feelings of discontent come from wondering if I have enough. Will I have enough time to fit everything into the day, enough money to pay my taxes, and enough patience with my spring-fever-filled students? I long for assurance that I will make it through this quarter, that I will have enough to meet my needs, that the hummingbirds will actually return,…

I Survived Hell’s Revenge (and Learned a Few Lessons Along the Way)

March 26, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Self-care and Nurture

23 Comments

Headed to Hell’s Revenge “Let’s do Hell’s Revenge!” Pedro exclaimed when we finished eating lunch the first full day of our Moab vacation. “I’m in,” Louis, our son-in-law, said. Laura and I looked at each other and headed into the trailer with the dirty dishes. “Maybe we won’t have to go,” I said with a hopeful grin. “We could stay here and write or something,” Laura agreed. Neither one of us relished a tour of one of the most difficult…

Why I Hate the King James Version of the Bible

February 26, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Self-care and Nurture

45 Comments

Hating the Bible? I know. One shouldn’t hate the word of God. I don’t really hate the King James Version of the Bible. I hate what it represents. Before you skip to the comments section and vilify me for allegedly trash-talking the Word of God, hear me out. We sat in church and I glanced around at my fellow congregants. Sixty percent had yet to reach their eighteenth year. Eighty percent had grown up in a home where the majority…

Don’t Miss Dickerson’s Newest Regency: A Viscount’s Proposal!

February 5, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Book Reviews, Young Adult

7 Comments

Not Your Average Regency Romp The allure of marrying a British noble, say, a duke or a viscount, makes Regency novels, from Pride and Prejudice to The Foundling popular with romantics. Courtship has morphed into dating however, and the average young lady nowadays thinks nothing of spending time alone with a young man. But two hundred years ago, during the Regency era, everyone knew that time spent alone with a member of the opposite sex could ruin a reputation faster…

Martin Luther’s Most Radical Act Wasn’t His 95 Theses

January 29, 2017

Anita Ojeda

Book Reviews, Non-Fiction

12 Comments

Katharina and Martin Luther I have vague memories of watching a movie about Martin Luther forty years ago for a class at school. The lingering impressions consist of the doors to a church and the constant danger of bucking the Roman Catholic Church at its most powerful. And of course, the hymn. I knew Martin Luther wrote my favorite hymn—”A Mighty Fortress.” From time spent in Europe, I knew that Martin Luther played a huge role in the Reformation and…

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