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1/8/2023 0 Comments

2nd Scripture

​Matt 6:11 – Give us this day our daily bread.
 
As I mentioned last week, my New Year’s Resolutions included trying to have a theme verse per week. I’ve had almost 52 friends share a special verse with me, which I’ve placed in random spots on the weeks of my calendar. While I won’t say who the verse came from, I will pray for that person on ‘their’ week, and see what and how that verse can be a blessing to me and, I hope, to you as I share some thoughts about it.
This 2nd week of the year is a basic verse. We can quote it in the Lord ’s Prayer without even thinking about it. But it has more weight (ha – get it: bread, weight!!) to it than you think. Are we content with just bread? We must live, bread is necessary. But do we grumble if we don’t get our wants, let alone needs? The adjective, daily, is also interesting. I want to have plenty so I don’t have to worry. Waiting for the actual day to receive a need – ooh, that is a huge trust and faith issue. George Mueller learned to do it – so can I wait for God to supply my need, instead of rushing ahead to make sure I am ‘safe’ on my own. That will be my goal for this week!
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1/5/2023 0 Comments

2023

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Scripture for the week!
My resolution for this year is to use a weekly Scripture from 52 different friends and see what/how it will be for the week.
This week is Job 5:9 (Which doeth great things and unsearchable; marvellous things without number) - and what a wondrous beauty God has given us this week. Normally hoarfrost lasts a day, we've had it most of the week. The verse totally fits! Have a great 2023!
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12/5/2022 0 Comments

Christmas Sales

Glad to see people are buying the third book. The first and second are available as well if you want a Christmas package.
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11/21/2022 0 Comments

The New Look...

Well, I've got a new header on my website to go with the new look of the third book!
For all local Portagers, I would love to see you at the library this Friday between 4:30-6:30. Come stick your name in for a draw, and there will also be my other two books available in case you need to do a bit of Christmas shopping for the readers in your lives! :0)
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9/22/2022 0 Comments

Another One for the Books!

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Once upon a time, a not-so-young teacher was making her weary way home after an intense day at school. Pulling up to a four-way stop sign, she waited a brief second as the man on her right went, then she pulled straight ahead. Immediately thereafter, her heart nearly jumped through her skin as an ear-splitting siren started right behind her. Red and blue lights flashed in her rearview mirror.  
 Her left hand (already injured) smacked against the driver’s side window in shock and after a slight levitation of the body, the right foot accidentally hit the gas. She jerked to the right, nearly nailing the Youth For Christ building at the edge of the road.
“Oh my goodness! I didn’t know a police car was right behind me. What did I do? I stopped!”
            Before she had time to think farther, a dark blue sedan immediately in front of her, suddenly started both shrieking sirens and flashing lights. The shock made the teacher hit both the brake and gas at the same time, while further nailing the sidewalk along the YFC building.
“I’m boxed in by the police,” the teacher thought in dismay, “Boy! Never pick your nose in public!”
JOKE! I was NOT picking my nose at the time. However the rest of the story is true. In despair I stayed pulled over, as I waited for the police to get out, while frantically trying to think what I could have done. Thankfully, they both made turns right around me, and sped off, leaving me sitting thinking – “Oh, guess it wasn’t me after all – but I’ll still never pick my nose in public!”
I’m too high strung to handle loud noises around me unexpectedly without adverse reactions. As I shakily pulled home a few minutes later,  I got out still quivering with shock, and promptly tripped on my front step. So the left hand and foot that was just starting to heal, slid backwards several paces in the ‘feel good’ department! Welcome to my world!  (minus the plug in - already tried that before. Shocking experience, too.)
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9/18/2022 0 Comments

Thoughts

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I never get tired of watching the Manitoba sky. It constantly changes, has many moods, but is always there. 

My thoughts can be like those clouds. Sometimes bright, sometimes cloudy - but if I wait long enough, the sun comes out and the entire effect changes. 

As my third book gets close to the publishing printshop, I vacillate between anxiety and the thrill that it will be good. I had to share some dark moments - but who hasn't had those in their life? But like my MB clouds, God has the sunshine still there behind it all.

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9/11/2022 0 Comments

Travel, Books, Travel...

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6/27/2022 1 Comment

Third Book Cover

Well, folks, the third book is getting closer. I have 3 options on the cover, so thought I'd see what strikes your fancy. I'm not great with tech, so ended up just taking a screenshot of the three covers, so they aren't great, but it gives you an idea of what my cover could be. You can facebook, email or answer via this website as to whether you think the title and cover look better for #1 (waves) #2 (dock) or #3 (girl with scarf). Titles and covers are harder for me than writing the entire book is!
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5/30/2022 0 Comments

Another step in the Journey

Have you ever walked across a suspension bridge? If you have felt the wobble and the shake of one, then you will understand a bit of this author's feelings as she sends in her manuscript for the first round of revisions. I received a good evaluation on my prospective third book, and now as I step out onto the swinging bridge of bringing another book to life, there are many emothions of 'will it be strong enough to sell, and take me to the other side of the payments and work, or will I collapse halfway across!'
​I'm so thankful to those of you that have taken the time to tell me what my books have meant to you. Hopefully this third one will not disappoint.
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4/28/2022 1 Comment

Book Cover Design Contest

Win a chance to get your name, or the name of your choice added in as a minor character in my third book!
How? Either send me a design, or your thoughts on what would look great for the cover of this title:

         Troubles, Trials and Trust
It can be actual physical things, or abstract design - but what would make this title pop out because of the cover, and yet go well with the other two books in the series?
There is a spot on my website that you can contact me, or email your ideas to: skglobetrotter@hotmail.com. If using email, be sure to put "Contest Design" in the subject line.
Have fun, and looking forward to what good ideas others might have. I can write a whole book, but titles and covers - yuck!
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    February 26, 2021
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    For a time in life when we supposedly have nothing to do because of Covid restrictions, it's amazing that I have trouble finding time to write here!
    Life in the classroom is exceedingly busy as the students are pushing to make up the beginning days we couldn't be in school. So there are no extra moments there. I still work/volunteer at the local thrift shop regularly and deliver the newspapers. Then any spare time I have, I have been working on book #2. The Girl with Nine Lives has sold well; I still need to get some more sold, but do hope to see book #2 hit the printers sometime this year, if possible. To that extent I have a poll to take. Titles are hard for me. This book starts where the first one left off. Tales of my adventures in teaching in at least six places. So with that in the back of your mind, what would be your favorite title out of the following:
    1. The Teacher with Nine Lives
    2. Lessons Learned Along the Road
    3. What is Going on Here?
    4. Around the World in Many Schools 
    Send me your vote on the best title in your opinion!

    February 12, 2021
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    Where does the time go? It feels like I should be frozen in time. After an extra mild winter, we were nailed with minus 47 wind-chill and -33+ temperatures for a week now! Makes it hard to do anything except get to work, and come home and wrap in a cozy blanket. 
    The blog definitely took 2nd place.
    But I'm so thankful and humbled at the wonderful remarks and reviews I've been receiving from people. It makes the struggles I've gone through worthwhile when I hear how people have identified and laughed and cried over incidents. That was my prayer when I first started writing.
    For all those who have asked, yes, I'm working on book #2. It will be slightly different as it is more the adventures of a teacher and the various cultures I experience along the way. When it will come out? Totally up in the air!

    January 24, 2021
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    Well, I have managed to get my books! It is an exciting moment when you have a physical visual of fifteen boxes waiting to be loaded into your vehicle full of your books with your name on them! It is also a huge blessing to immediately need to divest yourself of half of them because they have sold to various people and two bookstores. Thanks, Lord! Another blessing is that I'm receiving comments from various buyers that they had trouble putting the book down until they had it finished! I pray the lessons I learned the hard way will be of help and comfort to others who read this.

    January 16, 2021
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    For those of you who have read my book "The Girl with Nine Lives", or are reading it, or are waiting to read it and have wondered what that crazy little kid looked like, I have put two photos here for you. The little girl in the red dress on the horse is 'Stacy', shortly after she was adopted. That is the horse they gave her to help work her leg muscles. The black and white photo is almost two years later. It was taken for the immigration application to get Stacy into Canada. You notice she is smiling here. The doctors hadn't started sticking her with all those horrid needles yet! 
    I do not like to have my photo taken, but this will give you a visual to keep in your mind as you read about Stacy's adventures, or misadventures. As an adult, I have to admit, looking at the four-year old's picture - I can see her attempting to walk on air.
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    January 12, 2021
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    What a week! As a teacher on a Hutterite colony for grade 5-12, life is non-stop from 9:00-3:30. This coming Friday is the end of quarter, so report cards will be due. So that always makes one extra busy.
    But I had 2 highlights in this week. 
    The first: I came home and stumbled over something on my step. When I picked it up and entered, I found out I was holding MY copy of my book! I felt like a mother receiving her first child. The awe and wonder of holding something I'd created and labored over for - yes, about nine months- well, that is quite the feeling.
    The second: Last night the doorbell rang. I answered and a man stood there with a floral arrangement. I was sure he'd come to the wrong house, but he had the right name. Imagine my amazement when I saw that friends from the States had arranged these lovely roses to be delivered to celebrate this milestone in my life. In today's Covid restrictions, such a thoughtful, kind gesture means SO much! I never get flowers, so I'm still just smiling over it.
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    January 5, 2021

    How many of you make New Year's Resolutions? How many of you don't because you know you won't keep them?
    As I look at 2021 and wonder what this year will bring, I've decided to try a couple resolutions. 

    A poet once said, "It is better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all." I feel that can be applied to resolutions too. As I start this year as a new author, I'm scrambling to figure out what I'm doing! This has definitely pulled me out of my comfort zone. I've asked the Lord, "What have I done? Am I stepping off this cliff to float or fly?"

    So my New Year's Resolution is to have a website and put a blog on it. Will this last? It will be interesting to look back in December 2021 to see what has happened here! Tech stuff is NOT my thing. But as a teacher, I always tell my students, "Just try. You never know what might happen." So how can I do less than I preach? I will try this. No guarantees, but I've made a start!  Happy New Year to you all!
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