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The Heavenly Spa

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When I awoke early this morning, there was an Angel sitting in the chair beside my bed.  She was wrapped in a gossamer aura and held a look of weary concern in her eyes and on her face.  She reached out with thin fingers and touched me lovingly on the cheek, gave me a meek smile, then rose from the chair like a wisp of smoke and hovered near the ceiling.  Tenting her hands in prayer, she momentarily held my gaze, then closed her Continue reading →

Creatures of the Night

Richard Rensberry, author at QuickTurtle Books® and booksmakebooms.com3 Comments

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We often have interesting visitors during the night.  Shy creatures with big eyes imbued with whirling pools of unfathomable depths.  It is said, you are not supposed to look into them for fear they might steal your soul and leave you lost in a black fog like Alzheimer’s.  I definitely wouldn’t want that, but I have to admit, I look into those whirling pools anyway.  Continue reading →

Guest Artist Lucille Femine

Richard Rensberry, author at QuickTurtle Books® and booksmakebooms.com9 Comments

I am joined today by Children’s book author Lucille Femine.  She is the author and illustrator of LET ME SEE WHAT I COULD BE.

I am going to take the liberty to jump right in here with a few questions before I present an illustrated excerpt from the book.  My first question for Lucille is, what inspired you to write the book, LET ME SEE WHAT I COULD BE?

I used to make up stories for my children when they were going to sleep.  I wanted to call on that memory, but mostly I wanted to communicate something meaningful to children that would reach them on a deeper level, giving them the message that they really can be anything they want. Continue reading →

Monster Monster

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MONSTER MONSTER is a children’s picture book about the monster under the bed, the ogre snake that squishes toys and the troll that eats little boys. A fun poem for kids that delves into the monstrous imagination of a child, that place where the closet monster really does exist. This is book 6 in the Rhyme for Young Readers Series by QuickTurtle Books®.

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How Does One Maintain Integrity?

Richard Rensberry, author at QuickTurtle Books® and booksmakebooms.comLeave a comment

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How Does One Maintain Integrity?
There is a difference between having integrity and being pompous. Integrity contains a degree of humbleness and the ability to walk in someone else’s shoes to validate rightness when it is present and deserved. It also rightly contains the ability to stand one’s ground in the face of wrongness and persuade by rightness to move wrongness toward more rightness. I know that’s a mouthful, but think about it and I think you will agree that it is true.
Let me give you an example of how this might work. Continue reading →