Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.28.2007 Blog book giveaway: To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there. Valley of Betrayal by Tricia Goyer It Happens Every Spring by Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer My coffee-addicted husband/artist… It’s supposed to be a leaf. Looks like it, doesn’t it?

My husband found this video clip that has the scene I'm talking about in the post below.

Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.27.2007 Blog book giveaway: To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there. Valley of Betrayal by Tricia Goyer It Happens Every Spring by Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer My grandma’s living room on a TV show… I hope all y’all aren’t burned out on all the Asian American stuff, but my husband and I saw something the other night that had us laughing our fannies off. I like the TV show Bones , and we were watching an old episode on our TiVo that we hadn’t had the time to watch earlier. There was one scene where Dr. Brennan goes with a Chinese American anthropologist from the Jeffersonian Institute to an old Chinese woman’s home. They were sitting in her living room. The room was furnished with lots of Chinese knickknacks, although the layout was standard—two couches facing each other with a coffee table in between, a fireplace at one side. I noticed it before my husband did—the couch, a nice white brocade, was still covered with the slick, cle...

Captain’s Log, Supplemental Blog book giveaway: To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there. Valley of Betrayal by Tricia Goyer It Happens Every Spring by Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer Jane Austen miniseries I love Jane Austen. She’s my favorite classic writer, and I even bought audiobooks of her novels and listen to them again and again. I also love Amazon.com and visit my Gold Box every day (not that I buy that often). One day I had a deal for the entire set of DVDs of miniseries produced by BBC of Jane Austen’s novels. No, I didn’t buy the set—but it made me curious, and so I put the miniseries on my Netflix queue. The miniseries are all rather old. I just finished Mansfield Park . I’m quite divided on it. Costumes: score 4. They were mostly really rather nice, appropriate to the character’s background and income, and not too flamboyant, although there were several places the women’s headgear was just way over the top. Acting: score 4. I l...

Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.25.2007 Leave any prayer requests in the comments and I’ll be praying this week. You don’t have to be Christian to leave a prayer request. If you’d rather not advertise to everyone on the blogosphere, just leave an unspoken prayer request or e-mail me. If I forgot your prayer request, e-mail me. Not to be mean or anything, but if you don't e-mail me or comment to update your prayer request, I'm only going to pray ONE Sunday. I’m trying something new with my Sunday Prayer. I’m really bad about doing it on Sunday , so I’ll be updating it during the week. Dear Lord Jesus, Thank you that Salty is no longer suffering. Please be with Ruth and comfort her. Please help Kristin finish her book in good time. Give her strength, endurance, creativity, and peace about it all. Thank you that Wendy’s computer was saved. Please be with Jill at Mount Hermon Christian Writers Conference. Help her to have a safe trip there (and back), and that you will be with her and i...

Captain’s Log, Supplemental My agent sent me an article from Publisher’s Weekly that discussed this incident: Chinese Take-Out Spawns Christian Controversy And here’s also a blog post that talks about it in more detail: The Fighting 44s This is Soong-Chan Rah’s blog: The PCS blog In sum: Apparently Zondervan (yes, my publisher), who has partnered with Youth Specialties, had put out a youth leaders skit that had stereotypical Asian dialogue, which offended many Christian Asian Americans. In response to the outcry, Zondervan/Youth Specialities put out a sincere apology and is not only freezing the remaining stock of the book, but also reprinting it and replacing the copies people have already bought. I am very proud of my publisher for how they have handled this situation. The skit writers have also issued a public apology . (I feel sorry for them, because they were only trying to write a funny skit, not stir up this maelstrom of internet controversy. I’ve been in youth work long enou...

Captain’s Log, Stardate 03.21.2007 Blog book giveaway: To enter, go to the blog links below and post a comment there. The Reliance (Legacy of the King’s Pirates book 2) by M.L. Tyndall Scimitar’s Edge by Marvin Olasky Bonus giveaway: The Friday Night Knitting Club by Kate Jacobs Let’s pray… So, for a while now I’ve been really bad about doing my Sunday Prayer. I just can’t seem to do it on Sunday , and it was getting pretty long, too. So I’m going to try something different. I’m going to update it during the week as I get prayer requests. Also, I’m only praying for one Sunday if the requester doesn’t update me on the prayer request. My Sunday Prayer list was just getting too long (another reason I just couldn’t seem to do it every Sunday). So, in order to find my Sunday Prayer for this week, click on the “Prayer” label here or on the right sidebar. You can leave a prayer request on the blog post for this past Sunday the 18th.