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i am a former journalist and current marketing and communications professional with nearly 40 years' experience. i have written for Good News Magazine; once sold a joke to Reader's Digest; and post occasionally to this blog, a collection of musings about faith, family and ancestry with almost 80,000 views.
since 2019, i have focused my outside-of-work efforts on writing novels. Lint Head was published in 2024 by St. Matthew's Press. Aunt Connie's Old-Fashioned, New-Fangled, Electric-Powered County Road Christmas will be published in autumn 2025 also by St. Matthew's Press.
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Rogene shook her head, “I just don’t know how you do it.”
“I wouldn’t know what else to do,” Brenda said matter-of-factly.