by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 18, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
Hope. We all need it. Hunt for it. Grab onto it in our times of greatest need. But what exactly is it? For this word, I’ve dug back into my favorite old dictionary, Webster’s 1828. It says, “Hope is a desire of some good, accompanied with at least a slight expectation...
by A.S. Hardin | Mar 14, 2025 | Favorite Friday Fiction, Favorite Friday Reads, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
The Picture of Dorian Gray begins with a simple yet obvious realization, but for Dorian, this offhand comment of Lord Henry Wotton is tragic. Dorian’s youth, his beauty, his remarkable and most admired quality will fade, one day leaving him a withered old man just...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 11, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
Hello, friends! I’ve been thinking about hope and the past and I’ve come to a conclusion. I don’t believe in the good ol’ days. Nope. I truly believe each season of my life has had its share of the positive and negative. Highs and lows....
by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 7, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts, Friday Fiction: Books From Off the Beaten Track
Hello, Friday Fiction Friends! March has arrived and I’m more than ready for an early spring. How about you? In Alabama, March can bring freezing weather, snow, tornadoes, or 70+ degree weather. And this can all happen in a twenty-four-hour period… But...
by Jennifer Hallmark | Mar 4, 2025 | A Smidgen of Hope, Blogs/Podcasts
Hope. Sometimes you find it in unexpected places. Like a quote from St. Augustine–a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa, born in 354 AD. St. Augustine said, “God loves each of us as if there...
by Melissa J. Troutman | Feb 28, 2025 | Blogs/Podcasts
If you like fantasy (dystopian or medieval or both), action and adventure, clean romance, and deep themes, The Nightingale Trilogy by J. J. Fischer belongs on your bookshelf. After Calor and Lumen, the trilogy finishes with Memoria, a novel with a beautiful cover and...
