The Daily Brief This is a "consortium blog" - there are several authors, all of whom have a military background. I post there under the name "A Proud Veteran."
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This is my favorite picture from what I'm calling the "Great SouthEastern Ice Storm" (2005 version).
My Commitment
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls,
yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior.
Hab. 3:17-18
Sara B. Stein: Noah's Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Backyards I've already recommended this to at least 4 other folks. My only wish is that they would put out an updated edition with internet links. The book was published in 1993, so all additional info is for snail mail. (*****)
Angela Elwell Hunt Everything Angie writes is well-written. Not always easy to read, but definitely *worth* reading.
Anne McCaffrey One of the reigning queens of Science Fiction.
C.S. Lewis
Dick Francis
Earlene Fowler If Benni Harper were a real person, I'd want to be her friend.
Elizabeth Moon Sci-Fi/Fantasy. LOVE her Deed of Paksenarrion, and her entire Heris Serrano/Esmay Suiva series.
Elizabeth Peters I knew that Agatha Christie had successfully combined mysteries and Egyptology -- how nice to know that she wasn't the only author to do so.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Kristen Britain Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Louis L'Amour He wrote more than just westerns, people....
Madeleine L'Engle My all-time fave. Both her fiction and non-fiction are very readable, and always thought-provoking.
S.M. Stirling Time-travel/Alternate Histories.
Terri Blackstock Some of the best legal thrillers (for lack of a better term) I've read. Believable characters that it's easy to care about, as well.
Terry Pratchett Hilarious!
Other People's Musings
Baldilocks If you've not visited Juliette's site, please do. You'll enjoy your visit with such a clear-thinker.
Dave's Garden The first place I go when looking for online plants or the reliability of online plant vendors
HeroicStories "Restoring Faith in Humanity...One Story at a Time."
True, not sappy, stories written by ordinary people about how other people have impacted their lives. Another e-newsletter created by Randy Cassingham.
From the website: Our mission is to publish examples of people being good to each other, to inspire similar heroic actions in others.
This is True Randy Cassingham's e-newsletter proving that "truth is stranger than fiction, because fiction has to make sense."
From the website: This is True is a weekly syndicated newspaper column by Colorado humorist Randy Cassingham. True reports on bizarre-but-true news items from legitimate newspapers from around the world (never "tabloids"). Each story ends with commentary by Randy -- a tagline which is humorous, ironic or opinionated.