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Welcome to the Christmas Countdown! You can see what will be coming your way in the future above.
Day 1: The Tree Keeper's Promise
Tamara Passey was born and raised in Massachusetts around a
large family, one that has served as inspiration for most of her writing. She
was named Arizona Young Mother of the Year in 2013 and contributes marriage and
family articles to FamilyShare.com. She loves most creative endeavors and when
she isn't writing or re-writing, you can find her baking or cross-stitching or
walking--though not all at the same time. She lives with her husband and three
children in Arizona. Other titles by Tamara include The Christmas Tree Keeper:
A Novel, and Mothering through the Whirlwind, a short memoir.
Four seasons. That’s how long Angela Donovan
hoped to know Mark Shafer before they married. But less than a year later, she
still fears that she’s repeating the mistake of a failed relationship.
As Christmas approaches, she senses Mark’s plans for a proposal, and wonders if she can learn to trust again. Mark has learned all there is to know about the Shafer miracle trees—or so he thinks.
Papa reveals secrets about the trees’ matchmaking power just as a highway expansion threatens to destroy the family legacy. Mark is determined to save the farm, and the promise of love stirring in the branches of the Shafer miracle trees. Heartwarming and engaging,
The Tree Keeper’s Promise captures the warmth and wonder of the holiday season.
Top Ten
List:
· Won some poetry contests in high school, probably gave me way
too much encouragement.
· Favorite odd job: worked security at an art museum.
· I can spell gobbledygook.
· I miss fall foliage, cool misty rain, and the need for a warm
sweater. But I don’t miss shoveling snow.
· I prefer ocean over mountain, sunset over sunrise. Yet when I
head to the gym I get to watch the sunrise over a fair-sized mountain and it’s
beautiful every time.
· Love Jane Eyre.
· Favorite word: optimism.
· To get through revisions, I bake a lot of chocolate chip
cookies.
· New favorite food: salted-caramel gelato.
· One crafty thing I like to do: make new wreaths for my door.
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Day 2: The Christmas Bike
2 small snippets from your story
First off, this Christmas story is true and it happened to my
son and I.
* Blurb - Christmas is already going to be tough for Marie and her family.
When a series of events is set in motion long before a Christmas Eve tragedy,
she is too occupied to notice God's grace. An emergency letter to Santa sets
her on a quest for a Christmas miracle. With time running out, she prays for
the first time in a long time. A miracle does happen, but it is not what she
expected.
*
"Ready?"
"Yup!"
I placed my flip flop on the
pedal and pushed behind Anthony as we made our way along the sidewalk. We wove
along the neighborhood streets, looking at the dry creek beds and gravel
landscaping. Christmas lights were wrapped around the trunks of palm trees and
weaved in and out of cactus prickles. It took a very brave soul to decorate the
saguaro or prickly pear plants, and yet so many did.
Another example that I wasn't
made of tough enough stuff to bloom in the desert.
Even the Acacia, Ironwood, and
Mesquite trees had thorns. And the lovely fuchsia Bougainvillea? I looked down
at some scratches on my fleshy arms. Well, the Bougainvillea had won the battle
the other day when I'd tried to give it a winter haircut.
Every single plant in the
desert wanted to kill me.
Author
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