Mo's Corner: October 2006

About Me

Name: Mo

Location: Azle, Texas, United States

Barbara is a retired bookkeeper, married to a retired Baptist minister. She was administrative assistant for ten years at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Pacific NW Campus in Vancouver, Washington, and bookkeeper at a local nursing home in Texas for six years. She has three grown children and is "Mo" to seven grandchildren. She and her husband, Jack, were born and reared in Illinois, moved to Fort Worth, Texas in 1979 so he could go to seminary, moved to Washington State to pastor in 1989 and back to Texas in 1999. They live on a farm with a horse, a donkey, two goats, ten cats, two grown grandsons, a daughter and son-in-law in the back yard, and a Border Collie, Cassidy. Barbara retired in 2005 and has co-authored with her daughter, Ellen Newton Driscoll, When Christians Divorce, a self-help guide for victims of divorce. Most of Barbara's previous writing has been in the area of family and church humor. Several years ago she wanted to see if she could write an interesting mystery that was not dripping with sex and blood, and so two psychological suspense novellas were born, Sammie and Death for the Holidays, soon to be published.

Monday, October 30, 2006

I would like to give you a laugh for your day!

If you choose to view my web site and stay awhile to visit, it is my hope you will leave with a smile and maybe a new thought laced with a dash of hard-earned wisdom. I’ll always share a few “pearls” and “pebbles.”

When I told my nine-year-old granddaughter, Lacey, about the mysteries she moved a couple of inches away from me in the car and asked, “Mo, what is it with you and killing people?” I quickly assured her that I wrote family humor books also and that she was in them. This got me a moment of silence and then she asked, “Do you kill me off too?” I promised her that I never kill off family members.

It is proven, both by science and the Bible, that negative thoughts bring us down and good thoughts make us “feel good.” I hope to help you “feel good.”

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Mo