Friday Sisterhood with Linda Goodnight

Family Status: married with grown children, two adopted still at home, and grandchildren

What Is Your Favorite Beverage:  Water! 

What Is Your Favorite Food:  Fried okra

What Is Your Favorite Thing to do During Free Time:  Read

Who Has Been the Most Influential Person in Your Life:  Jesus

First Book You Fell in Love With:   Something by Victoria Holt, probably Morning in Manfreya 

A Book You Wish You’d Written:  Artistically,  On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah. Monetarily, I wish I’d written a lot of other books!

First Book Published:  For Her Child

Most Recent Book:  The Lawman’s Honor

Out Next:  Cowboy Under the Mistletoe in November, 2014

How Many Have You Written:  45 or 50, not sure and too lazy to count

What Do You Know Now That You Wish You’d Known Then: I wish I’d known the ebook revolution was coming so I could have been better prepared.

What is Your Favorite Bible Story:  Joseph in the Old Testament who suffered so much but rose up to save the very ones who’d betrayed him.

What is Your Favorite Bible Verse:  The very profound and simple message of Jesus in a nutshell -  John 3:16. For God so loved the world, He gave his only begotten son that whosoever believed in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.

What is Your Favorite Hymn:  I have so many, depending on the circumstance, but Amazing Grace and Beulah Land stand out this morning.

What is an Ongoing Prayer Request You Have:    My late son's wife and kids, Missy, Lexi, and Kade as they adjust to this new season in their lives.

Firefly Lane

Since we’re talking about Friendship this month I wanted to share a book I recently read by the incomparable Kristin Hannah.
They were known as the Firefly Lane girls--a single, inseparable unit. The best friends promise to be there for each other forever--and for 30 years, that promise holds strong. Then events and choices make that promise impossible.
I don’t normally read women’s fiction, no particular reason other than I gravitate more toward romance and romantic suspense novels. I did enjoyed this book on so many different levels, partly because so much of the cultural references over the book’s thirty year span I could relate to, as well as, relating very closely with Kate, one of the lead characters. At times funny, nostalgic and unforgettable, Firefly Lane hooked me from the first paragraph until the very end.
Warning, though, have a box of tissue close at hand.