Also entitled, After the Flag Has Been Folded with the slightly altered subtitle: A Daughter Remembers the Father She Lost to War–and the Mother Who Held Her Family Together, Hero Mama is a hard hitting, yet every day kind of memoir by Karen Spears Zacharias, who unflinchingly tells her story and the story of her family in […]
A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder Karen Spears Zacharias has written another memoir, a page turner, which tells it as it is, bare knuckles and all. It brings home the growing problem of child abuse and neglect. And it does so through the story involving people she knows. Here in America, a […]
“I am a baby and I don’t like things to be hard or sad and especially not tragic for myself or anyone I love or anyone that I don’t even know,” the Redhead says. “I am thankful that I know this truth about myself. Being frail and weak to the core has made me deeply […]
We live in a society glued to our smart phones, and though I have yet to own a smart phone, I can be glued to my tablet, as well. There are avid readers, particularly it seems to me of fictional novels, finding many good stories from creative, interesting writers. But beyond that, I’m not so […]
Jesus tells us, indeed commands us to love our enemies. This is a hard saying, one of Jesus’ hard sayings. It is especially hard, when a friend, even a brother or sister in Jesus breaks relationship with you and refuses reconciliation, contrary again to the command of Christ. I’ve heard over and over again that […]
I am rereading Karen Spears Zacharias’ gripping memoir, A Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder, recounting the tragedy of the brutal torture, yes over time, and murder of a precious little girl. I will soon be offering a review of it on this blog. This goes to show the depths of the tragedy of […]
I hear it said often that we need to get our focus on Jesus and off of what troubles us. As a general rule for most of us I think this is good counsel. But I wonder if we’re simply to keep our minds on what gives us peace. Is that even a correct thought? […]
In church our Pastor Jack was emphasizing to us the importance of sharing with others our story of God’s wonderful works and goodness in our lives. And a good brother shared something of his own story, a powerful witness of God’s goodness in intervening in his life in the midst of a physical condition and […]
Karen Spears Zacharias has written a number of books, each of which I want to read. I finally did get around to reading my first, her latest, Will Jesus Buy Me a Double-Wide?. I really like this book for a number of reasons. First of all, Karen is a good story teller. She lets people […]
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