by Jennifer Hallmark | Jul 8, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
Life is good. People and jobs and situations, and the community can be good. Times of joy and peace, and prosperity find us all unexpectedly and make the blessing even greater. But life can also be hard. Chaotic, distressing, fretful, difficult to live, kind of hard....
by K.A. Ramstad | Jul 4, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
How about a Christmas-in-July treat? Try Oh No! Reindeer Flu, written by Valerie L. Egar and illustrated by Tamara Campeau. It’s fit for children, whether they are entering preschool or second grade. An awful event happens: the reindeer have the flu, right on...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jul 1, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
The Fourth of July is always chaotic for me, the whole week. Not only is it my mom’s birthday, but the vegetable garden we plant yearly is ready to harvest. There’s corn on the cob to put in the freezer, bread and butter pickles to make, and beans and peas...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Jun 27, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Fiction, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Something Else: The Background When I heard about Something Else before its release in January, I didn’t know what to expect. After all, it was the original story, Something I Am Not, that had me sobbing on my bedroom floor after midnight. (No wonder it won the 2020...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Jun 24, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
God is big enough. Let that sink in for a moment. God is bigger than my problems, my worries, my fears, and all obstacles. He is greater, more majestic, and above all. He is God. And that should bring me a boatload of hope, right? Then why do I have so much trouble...
by Cammi Woodall | Jun 20, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Serendipity – the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. For me, today’s date – 6-20-2025 – is indeed serendipitous. Fifty years ago, my favorite movie and the first summer movie blockbuster premiered in...
