Captain's Log, Stardate 08.21.2009 After a day at Audra's house , Danica and I were ready to relax! So I treated her to high tea at the Brown Palace Hotel in downtown Denver! OMG the food was absolutely yummy! Isn't this a cute server, too? Here are the desserts, which I was tempted to eat first, but we didn't. The pale white/beige things at 9 and 3 o'clock were coconut macaroons, but they were more like pastry puffs filled with macaroon paste. OMG they were awesome! The pink petit four squares at 10 and 4 o'clock were some fruity passion fruit? sponge cake and cream things. The round scoops on cookies at noon and 6 o'clock were some mousse fruity things with a fig on top, and the triangle things at 2 and 7 o'clock were mini apple pie slices (aren't they cute???) Maybe Danica can chime in if she remembers what the other stuff was exactly. Our sandwiches were to die for! Besides the traditional cucumber sandwiches, we had shrimp salad (the brown bread...

Captain's Log, Stardate 08.20.2009 Camy here: I know I just posted a joke, but I'm sick today and this cheered me up. :) Are you tired of those sissy 'friendship' poems? Well, here is a series of promises that actually speak of true friendship. You will see no cutesy little smiley faces on this card--just the stone cold truth of our great friendship. 1. When you are sad -- I will jump on the person who made you sad like a spider monkey jacked up on Mountain Dew! 2. When you are blue -- I will try to dislodge whatever is choking you. 3. When you smile -- I will know you are plotting something that I must be involved in. 4. When you're scared -- we will high tail it out of here. 5. When you are worried -- I will tell you horrible stories about how much worse it could be until you quit whining, ya big baby! 6. When you are confused -- I will use little words. 7. When you are sick -- Stay away from me until you are well again. I don't want whatever you have. 8. Whe...

Captain's Log, Stardate 08.19.2009 I got this joke from a friend who shall remain nameless in case it embarrasses her. This joke is a little gross but it's SO funny! I was in the pub yesterday when I suddenly realized I desperately needed to fart. The music was really, really loud, so I timed my farts with the beat. After a couple of songs, I started to feel better. I finished my pint and noticed that everybody was staring at me. Then I suddenly remembered that I was listening to my iPod.

Captain's Log, Stardate 08.18.2009 Four, Four, Four, Four... A) Four places that I go to over and over: post office, grocery store, organic co-op pick up place, church B) Four people who e-mail me regularly: Danica, Cheryl, Robin, my pastor (for youth group and worship team) C) Four favorite smells: gardenias, baking bread, roses, eucalyptus D) Four places I would rather be right now: Paris, Italy, the United Kingdom, Japan E) Four people I think will respond: ???? F) Four TV shows that I watch: Leverage, 24, Royal Pains, Eureka Your turn! Post your meme in the comments or a link to your blog!

This week, the Christian Fiction Blog Alliance is introducing Montana Rose Barbour Publishing, Inc (July 1, 2009) by Mary Connealy ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mary's writing journey is similar to a lot of others. Boil it down to persistence, oh, go ahead and call it stubbornness. She just kept typing away. She think the reason she did it was because she was more or less a dunce around people—prone to sit silently when she really ought to speak up(or far worse, speak up when she ought to sit silently). So, Mary had all these things, she want to say, in her head; the perfect zinger to the rude cashier, which you think of an hour after you’ve left the store, the perfect bit of wisdom when someone needs help, which doesn’t occur to you until they solve their problems themselves, the perfect guilt trip for the kids, which you don’t say because you’re not an idiot. She keep all this wit to herself, much to the relief of all who know her, and then wrote all her great ideas into b...

Captain's Log, Stardate 08.17.2009 The Blue Enchantress by M.L. Tyndall Betrayed by the man she longed to marry, Hope Westcott finds herself on an island in the Caribbean being auctioned off as a slave to the highest bidder. Raised in an unloving home and after enduring a difficult childhood, Hope's search for love and self-worth have led her down a very dangerous path. All she ever wanted was to find true love and to some day open an orphanage where she could raise children with all the love she never experienced as a child. But how can a woman with a sordid past ever hope to run an orphanage, let alone attract the love of an honorable man? Determined to overcome the shame of his mother's past, Nathaniel Mason worked for many years to build his own fleet of merchant ships in an effort to finally acquire the respect of Charles Towne society. Ignoring the call of God on his life to become a preacher, he forges ahead with his plans for success at a distant port in the...

Dad in Training by Gail Martin How is Brent Runyan supposed to reach his troubled nephew? The workaholic businessman knows nothing about providing a real home to the orphaned boy who needs him so much. Special education teacher Molly Manning thinks the answer is threefold: love, time—and a dog. But Brent can barely let his nephew into his heart, let alone a golden retriever. With his tragic past, Brent knows what can happen when you love anything: you can lose it. Until Molly asks this dad-in-training to start with the basics by letting her stay…forever. Buy from Christianbook.com Buy from Amazon.com To read an excerpt of this new title go to Chapter-a-Week . If you don't belong to Chapter a Week, it's free and easy to join. Just click here .