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This Is My Life
Just blabbering about whatever comes to mind and trying to make it worth reading for the public.
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Monday, August 23, 2010
17 Saved!
Last night, our team went out and spoke at a local county lockup. The message was given by my husband, John. He spoke about the power of righteous living. The way he tied Proverbs 3, Matthew 6, Colossians 3 and 1 Peter 3 together was magnificent. Then he ended it with Romans 8 and Romans 10. There was hardly a dry eye in the house. All came up for prayer, but seventeen (17) men turned their hearts over to Christ. I glorify God for moving upon the hearts of those broken brothers. May the Holy Spirit continue to minister to them.
Posted by My Writing Experience at 6:41 AM
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Labels: county lockup, jail outreach, prison outreach, souls saved
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The Journaling
As most of you know, I've been journaling since the beginning of my prison ministry career. Well, I counted notebooks and I've filled 28 notebooks and I'm half way through the 29th one. I believe it's time to go digital and seek out publication. There's so much in it to help those who have been down the wrong road.
Whether you've been in trouble or not, we will suffer as a society if we don't do better with hiring ex-cons. We can't simply put them in a facility and forget about them. They're going to get out and if we don't rehabilitate and help them, we may very well be their next victims. It just makes good sense to assist them.
Whether you've been in trouble or not, we will suffer as a society if we don't do better with hiring ex-cons. We can't simply put them in a facility and forget about them. They're going to get out and if we don't rehabilitate and help them, we may very well be their next victims. It just makes good sense to assist them.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Just a Thought
What would happen if every person who claimed to be Christian on Facebook posted an invitation to Christ just once a day every day that they were signed on to Facebook? I bet a revolution would begin.
Posted by My Writing Experience at 6:40 AM
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
New Look, New Start
This blog has a new look and I'm getting on a new start. I plan to blog at least twice weekly to begin so as not to overload my brain. I know you missed me but I'm back!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Savvy Market Masters
In need of book marketing? How about branding yourself?
Savvy Market Masters, a new business endeavor by Lacresha Hayes, helps authors improve book visibility across the net and offline.
Lacresha, one of my long time friends and an all-around great businesswoman, began this business out of necessity when authors kept asking her for marketing assistance. In fact, at one point, she reports she was doing more to market the books of others than she was to market her own.
The aspects that set this company apart from others in the business is the genuine creativity used, new programs that no one else is doing right now, including the upgraded blog tours that boast higher ratings in Google searches. The fact that Lacresha is an author herself helps tremendously. The people at SMM are wonderful to work with and don't mind explaining their programs in detail and helping authors make informed decisions about their marketing dollars.
Friday, July 30, 2010
New Dog for Us
We have a dog now for the children. It's a Labrador and his name is Potato. We mistakenly told the children they could name him and for some odd reason, they finally agree upon something and that was giving that dog such a horrible name. So far, Potato fits quite nicely into the family.
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Friday, July 9, 2010
Terrible Public Parenting
Our family was at Sears awaiting our turn for family portraits. I noticed this black lady snatching on her 2 year old. Finally, she pulled her out from the crowd a bit and proceeded to curse the little girl out. She called her stupid and basically said she slap her in the mouth if she opens it again with many explicatives used.
Women, it makes you look like a terrible parent if you are cursing, pulling, dragging and dogging your children. It makes a person wonder what can you possibly love if you don't even love those who come out of your womb?
Posted by My Writing Experience at 1:56 PM
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Labels: cursing children, hitting children
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Different Roads by Joyce Scarbrough
This week I am digging into a Joyce Scarbrough feature entitled DIFFERENT ROADS. I've just completed the first four chapters and my mind is already abuzz with ideas. Great read. Jaycee is one of those complex characters that will make you take a look at yourself. I will keep everyone posted!
Posted by My Writing Experience at 7:04 AM
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Labels: Different Roads, Jaycee, Joyce Scarbrough
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Becoming: My Personal Memoirs - Not Just Poetry
I like poetry from time to time, but it isn't something I purchase often. Sometimes, the poetic mind is hard for me to understand. I am confused by all the wordiness. But, after promising Lacresha Hayes I'd really read all of her poetry book over and over again, I had to make good on my word.
I was so impressed with how true-to-life these poems were. Each one told a story and painted a portrait of her more clearly than any mere writing could have done. Somehow in rhyme, she showed her strengths and vulnerabilities, her power and fears, her triumphs and her failures. Somehow, this book showed me a woman I'd been knowing but never fully knew. That is the beauty of poetry. It captures the soul.
I highly recommend you get a copy of Becoming: My Personal Memoirs because it isn't poetry. It's life. It's a true memoir. It is also a mirror that can more clearly reflect your soul. Please use the links in this post, or visit Amazon.
Posted by My Writing Experience at 8:52 AM
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Thursday, May 20, 2010
Broken Marriages
What happens when a person spends all their time doing everything for the world but ignore their family? Brokenness happens. A young, ambitious couple are separated because neither of them ever showed the passion and commitment for one another as they did for their careers and friendships. It was sad to sit and hear their story as my husband and I tried to lend solid marital advice. What can you say to 2 people who are bent on blaming one another rather than looking at themselves?
If you are married, the church, your social calendar and your career all take a backseat to that marriage. Please read 1 Corinthians 7 in its entirety.
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Labels: 1 Corinthians 7, broken marriages, marriage first
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This time, mayoral hopefuls have to answer to artists
Still reeling from the body blow inflicted by the Legislature's near total annihilation of the State Arts Council, Bay Area arts organizations are hoping they'll be able to find strong support from San Francisco's next mayor.
Intersection for the Arts and Theatre Bay Area have teamed up to grill mayoral candidates Angela Alioto, Tom Ammiano, Matt Gonzalez, Susan Leal, Gavin Newsom and Tony Ribera from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 in the Green Room of the War Memorial Veterans Building. Author Dave Eggers will moderate the evening along with Brad Erickson, the new director of Theatre Bay Area, which will also hold its annual meeting that night.
"I recently went to an event for one of the candidates, and he talked about a lot of different things, but he never once talked about the arts," says Deborah Cullinan, Intersection's executive director. "What was ironic to me was that all of the things he talked about -- quality of education in the schools, economic and cultural diversity in the city -- were all things in which the arts do play a vital role, a role that should continue and be strengthened.
"We are not planning this so much for us to say, 'Here's what we would like, ' but rather for the people to tell the candidates what they would like."
The city plays a big role in arts funding, thanks to the Grants for the Arts program, which uses money from the city's hotel tax, and through the San Francisco Arts Commission. The event is free and open to the public, but because of space limitations, reservations are recommended. Call Theatre Bay Area at (415) 430-1140, Ext. 40.
Special guest: The American Conservatory Theater's Young Conservatory welcomed a very special guest Saturday night to its production of Jeffrey Hatcher's "Korczak's Children," based on the diaries of children's rights advocate and doctor Janusz Korczak, at Zeum. The play follows Korczak, his staff and his wards (nearly 200 of them) through a brief period of relative calm. Outside the orphanage walls, life in the Warsaw Ghetto worsens by the day, but inside, Korczak creates a world of beauty, order, fun and compassion for the orphans.
In 1942, Korczak was put to death with nearly all of his orphans. But one of his orphans who fled Warsaw in 1939 is still alive and living in Menlo Park.
He read the listing for the play last week in a Russian-language newspaper and called the ACT Young Conservatory to ask them about it. His name is Gerch Mandelblat, and he attended Saturday's opening with his daughter, Alla Lipkin.
Gerch fled in 1939 with his brother, who later died at the Russian border (having parted ways with Gerch before then). Gerch's sister was one of the orphans who stayed behind with Korczak, and was later believed to have been put to death with him. After spending about three years in a Siberian camp in Russia until the war ended, Gerch moved to this country 25 years ago, living first in upstate New York before moving with family to the Bay Area about 11 years ago.
Dog and kitty show: Cast and crew members from "The Phantom of the Opera," holding forth at the Orpheum these days, showed up Saturday at the San Francisco SPCA's adoption center on Florida Street to promote dog and cat adoption. Led by Lisa Vroman, Brad Little and Tim Martin Gleason (Christine, the Phantom and Raoul, respectively), the gang helped the SPCA find new homes for 18 cats and kittens and one puppy.
Two of those kittens, a male and a female, went to Josh Shuster-Lefkowitz, 15, who won tickets to "Phantom" at the adoption event. The San Francisco teen says he's thinking about naming the felines "Phantom" and "Christine."
Your obedient servant showed up with his own four-footer, the fabled Morgan,
who was mistaken by several folks for a potential adoptee. Sorry, he's taken, but there are lots of other furry friends looking for good homes at Maddie's.
There's a touch of period authenticity in the current Hoochi-Doo Productions staging of a musical version of "My Favorite Year" in Sonoma. A 1957 Vidicon television camera, which had spent the last several years in storage at San Francisco State University, is featured in the play.
The TK-15 model was dusted off and polished up for the production after Brian Weiner of Sonoma, technical services director of the College of Creative Arts at San Francisco State University, happened to see the script for "My Favorite Year" on his kitchen counter. Weiner's wife, Fran Weiner, is a featured member of the ensemble in the musical, which takes place in 1954 at the NBC studio of a fictional television variety show.
After its turn in "My Favorite Year," the television camera will be donated to the Northern California chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
"My Favorite Year" performances continue at Andrew's Hall Theatre at the Sonoma Community Center through Aug. 30. For tickets or more information call (707) 938-4626, Ext. 1.
The San Francisco Lyric Chorus is holding auditions for its fall 2003 season. Rehearsals begin Sept. 8. Auditions are held by appointment. Contact Music Director Robert Gurney at (415) 775-5111 or firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information, visit the chorus' Web site at www.sflc.org.
The Oakland East Bay Gay Men's Chorus has hired Michael T. Carlson as its new artistic director. The chorus is auditioning for new members Sept. 2 from 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at First Congregational Church of Oakland, 2501 Harrison St. (at 27th Street). Call (800) 706-2389 or e-mail email@example.com to schedule an audition.

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