This week’s Winning Wednesday book is … Born to Run by Christopher McDougall Here’s why he wrote this book … I started running about 18 years ago while struggling with depression. It was my therapy in many ways. After receiving severe injuries in 2004, I didn’t know if I would ever…
Hear No Evil My Story of Innocence, Music and the Holy Ghost by Matthew Paul Turner As a kid, Turner loved music, so he headed to Nashville for college and for work. Hear No Evil is a memoir (college years and beyond) of moving from his strict religious home to a…
Enter to win this book for – Winning Wednesday Crave: Wanting So Much More of God by Chris Tomlinson Crave is a book about one young man’s journey of developing a meaningful Christian life for himself. Tomlinson is real about the messy and bumpy road it can be at times.…
I am super excited about this book! I rarely read a book twice – this is one that I will keep in my living room to pick up again and again and again … the photographs are priceless and the poems are meaningful treasures. Enter to win an autographed hardcover…
A few months ago, I signed up to receive a copy of Linchpin by Seth Godin by giving a donation to the Acumen Fund. A few weeks after receiving the first copy, I received a second copy of Linchpin, with a letter from Seth Godin saying, “Here’s a thank you…
Linchpin by Seth Godin Are you scared to try new things? Wonder what others will say? One of the main themes in this book is that you are unique and I am unique. The footprint we leave on the world can be unique if we allow (and push) ourselves to…
It’s February – how’s those New Year’s Resolutions going? When talking about resolutions or goals, almost every person mentions how they want to eat healthier … so it’s safe to assume many of you have said that. Eating healthy is something that is often on our minds, but we still…
During November, I gave away a copy of the Same Kind of Different As Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall, Denver Moore and Lynn Vincent. This was a book I couldn’t put down once I started it,…
It’s Wednesday and you can be a winner! Actually, you already are a winner, because everyone’s a winner all the time! Don’t you feel better about yourself now? Okay – enough of pop psychology for today, now back to real life. Do something that makes you a winner today! “What…
Yesterday I took part in a Blog Carnival hosted by Peter Pollock and the theme was Grief. My post was about time spent with my mentor Audrey and how she taught me the importance of grieving losses in my life. Audrey gave me a few books to read during this…
Winning Wednesday is back! Today you could win a hardcover copy of Same Kind as Different as Me by Ron Hall & Denver Morre with Lynn Vincent The book’s website describes it like this … and also has a short video about it. A dangerous homeless drifter – who…
Ugh … I hate even writing this, because I don’t like making excuses, but I do like setting some boundaries on my time. Life has been busy and I can’t seem to get more than 24 hours in a day (actually, won’t really want to!) so what this rambling really…
Today I’m giving away a book I was given at STORY – the conference I was at last week. When I walked into a workshop there taught by Michael Hyatt, CEO for Thomas Nelson Publishing, there was a hardcover book on each chair. I love receiving books, even if it’s…
Bloom Where You Are Planted This book is compiled of writings from my sister Rosene, along with some information about her life – it contains her writings I posted earlier this week, along with many more. Rosene lived on earth for 39 years with too many limitations and too much…
The Winner for Winning Wednesday is Amy Neff Amy wins a copy of Scouting the Divine by Maragret Feinberg
UPDATE – Winning Wednesday will be kept open for entries until midnight tonight (Thursday) Yesterday I commented on the author Margaret Feinberg Facebook Fan page – last night she commented back and said that she will put a link on her page for any of her readers to see it and…
“A good book should leave you with many experiences and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it.” ~William Styron This week, Winning Wednesday is a book I read last year that I want to share with someone – “A Thousand Splendid Suns” by Khaled Hosseini…
Too many books … too little time. I love books and want to share some with my readers –so each Wednesday you will have a chance to win a book.Sometimes it will be one I review for Thomas Nelson –other times it will be one I love and want to…
