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"...my tongue is the pen of a ready writer." - Psalm. 45:1B #amwriting #illustrating #kidlit #scbwi

I started a new job which has shifted my writing patterns. But today, I’m happily typing away from the corner study room at my local library. It feels good to be back at it!

Today is an awfully sad day. I lost one of my best friend .she was the strongest person I know and wanted to spread awareness about breast cancer. remember her fight. She was the most positiv person I know. She always said dont be afraid about aging, aging means being alive.

Jesus came into this world not as a philosopher or a general but as a carpenter. All work matters to God.

In Jesus, you can exchange feelings of worthlessness for a life of purpose. a-moment-with-joni.simplecast.com/episodes/you-a…

Charges now filed against a man for trying to get into an east side cleveland church Sunday and throwing a man down the steps—victim was a deacon trying to “protect the frightened church attendees”

Today’s sketch book. Character design and tree. #kidlitart #pencilsketch

Today I take you back nearly 120 years to the Californian coastline: I have cleaned-up this study of the American actress and writer Helen MacGowan Cooke, photographed by Arnold Genthe at the beach in Carmel, California, sometime between 1906 and 1910. It is original colour, not colourised.

Science can't explain everything.

I love cherry blossom so much , nothing représents spring better than that ! And I’m longing for spring 🌸 Have a Lovely weekend ! . #illustration #watercolor #flower #kidlit

“We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.” — Andrew Murray

Let me take you back 118 years to a picturesque woodland path in Champigneulles, Belle Fontaine, France, photographed in the autumn of 1908 by one of my favourite Autochrome photographers Julien Gérardin. It is original colour, not colourised

Squirrel. #pencilsketch #kidlitart

"God had a purpose in making you. His primary purpose is that you would have fellowship with Him." —Billy Graham

Don't give your kids everything you never had. Teach them everything you never knew.

If there is a scrap of paper near me, it's gonna end up with a sketch or a doodle or maybe even a few lines of random poetry on it.

Never before have we had so much while feeling we have so little. 'Progress' cannot be only economic, material, and technological, though it must include that. It must also be communal, moral, and spiritual.

To say there is no absolute truth is in fact to give a truth, absolutely.

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We are so instinctively and profoundly self-centered that we don't think we are.

@BoyMomWrites I usually make a text dummy. Ironically, it's one of my favorite things to do.

Is there any easy way to paginate a #picturebook? Seems like every time I go at it, the page numbers intimidate me:)