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About lettersfromheartscontent

I'm a writer working on YA fiction. I am also a mother of six, grandmother, wife to a forester, former homeschool teacher and tutor with Classical Conversations. Now retired from teaching Music at a small Christian school. In retirement I am writing, care-giving, decluttering, and calling village dances in order to give groups of strangers the joy of accomplishing something good together.

Still Growing Healthier

Posted on March 25, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

A month later I am down 11 pounds and doing well. I feel full of energy and my thoughts are much clearer. How do I know? In class yesterday, before nine smart teens and in close proximity to the IQ-dropping … Continue reading →

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Taking Control

Posted on February 14, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Ten days ago I signed up for the Isagenix Presidential Pak and three days ago started the 30-day Cleanse. Already I feel better–I’m not kidding. No doubt it has to do partly with not having sugar. But it also feels … Continue reading →

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Introductory Letter to My Challenge III Class

Posted on February 14, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

For our first class in August 2014, I requested each student write a letter about themselves, answering questions about their history and their favorites. In cleaning off my desk today I found my own letter.  Dear class, Thank you for sketching your character … Continue reading →

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My CD Album at Doorposts

Posted on February 6, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

It occurs to me I have never mentioned my album of Bible songs for families. Doorposts, a company I love, carries it. http://www.doorposts.com/details.aspx?id=45 That’s all I wanted to say.

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Mary’s Birth

Posted on January 31, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Mary’s laughter echoes like a cry of final tight farewells to empty walls. Memories break the surface with a sigh; remembrance pangs in heavy hollow tolls. For seventy years, like magnets bound by force of opposite attraction, sisters always knew … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Devices Series, Part I: Overview

Posted on January 31, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

Here is my article, an overview of rhetorical devices, posted on Classical Conversations’ Writer’s Circle. https://www.classicalconversations.com/article/devices-style-part-i-introduction I’m not posting here so those who come here from that site will see new material. I am really enjoying my study of stylistic … Continue reading →

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Rhetorical Devices

Posted on January 19, 2015 by lettersfromheartscontent

I have been having so much fun playing with rhetorical devices! Also called figures of speech, or stylistic devices, they fall in two groups: schemes and tropes. Tropes and schemes dress up our writing like nothing else. Once our children … Continue reading →

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Traveling the Mississippi with Mark Twain

Posted on November 2, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

Last night, when I read to the family from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain, we came upon a passage that made them erupt in laughter. I read it again a couple of times just to savor the choice … Continue reading →

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Anyone can write poetry

Posted on October 21, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

I want to write. When I write well and that magic thing happens, that long silky ribbon of of words that surprises even me, my soul sighs, profoundly content. It is like the winter yearning of my friend Aula to get … Continue reading →

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A Day Away from Gadgets

Posted on October 5, 2014 by lettersfromheartscontent

When I was a girl growing up on the wild edges of a civilized town on Connecticut, I roamed the outdoors a lot. My Dad is Remington man and gave us a wholesome appreciation for creation, whether flora or fauna. … Continue reading →

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