Tag Archives: Featured Blogger

Good-Bye, Sweet Boomer

Posted on July 28, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on Kit Troyer Blog:
I woke up around 4:30am today to the sight of an owl swooping into the branches above me and taking away a rat, which protested loudly as it departed from the branches and from…

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People Watchers

Posted on July 21, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on Tricia Sankey:
“The core of every fruit is better than its rind,” Mike read aloud before placing his book on the hotel bed and retrieving an orange from the extravagant fruit basket. Laura squinted at the title…

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Above the Park

Posted on July 14, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on Big Blue Mouth:
What a hullabaloo! before quiet. Now riot. Cockatoos.

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Will the Real Jesus Please Stand Up?

Posted on July 7, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on Coffee with Carolanne:
Dedicated to my best mate. I promised to be quiet, not absent. I cannot get there but I never left you. Sat by a riverbank, soaking in the sunshine, in June 2017 I posed…

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God’s Faithfulness

Posted on June 16, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on Unshakable Hope:
A month before Bill went to heaven, he sent me an email.? The top line read: “If I go home: Don’t think for a minute that God failed us!? You know how faithful God has…

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A Prayer Life vs. A Life of Prayer

Posted on June 9, 2021 by mitchteemley

My Featured Blogger this Week is Alan Searle of Alan Searle’s Pleasant Lines. Alan is an award-winning journalist and political essayist, but “at my core,” he says, “I am still a Minnesota farm boy with mud on his boots, happiest … Continue reading →

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A Historical Thriller with a Conscience

Posted on June 2, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on E. Denise Billups, Writer:
Yoo-hoo! Happy Memorial Day! After a long break from blogging, I am excited to be back to share with you my just-released cover for book one in the Simone Doucet Series, Tainted Harvest.…

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Growing Old

Posted on May 26, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on My Good Time Stories:
Photo by?Matthias Zomer?from?Pexels Ahhh…getting old. We are all getting old and some of us faster than others…ha ha ha! Today’s little blog contains a collection of hilarious little quips/thoughts that I think all…

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The Second Black Sheep

Posted on May 19, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on Kamina A. Fitzgerald Ed.D.:
The school bell has rung, class is now in session. I would like to talk about the black sheep, but not in the way one may suppose. I want to talk about…

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Blueberry Muffins and the End of Everything

Posted on May 5, 2021 by mitchteemley

Originally posted on It is all Connected:
My three youngest daughters were all up early today. They were spread out in the living room. One reading, one drawing, and one on the iPad. “What muffins today?” they asked. We have…

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