Spiritual Warfare Q & A with Catholic Heavy Hitters, Jesse Romero and Dr. Dan Schneider (video title)

The book they're talking about, Spiritual Warfare Q and A: For Priests and Laity, can be purchased now from TAN Books, Amazon, or other retailers.

I have Dan's other book, which is great--The Liber Christo Method: A Field Manual for Spiritual Combat. His style is clear and his instructions are easy to apply to one's life. Closing the doorways for demons in one's life isn't easy, but it is necessary.

Don’t Play the Pride Game - Bishop Barron’s Sunday Sermon (video title)

We all need to listen to this (not just hear but take it in) in our modern age, especially with the cultural issues we have and the addiction to social media.

Edit: Here's another video on the same readings from yesterday, the twenty-second Sunday in ordinary time on the Catholic church calendar, but from a different priest whose homilies I also enjoy listening to online:

The Importance of Family | Why Modern Families Are Falling Apart (And How to Fix it) (video title)

Corn and more corn

The corn harvest is done!

Hubby and I started this morning picking the corn from the garden and cutting down the stalks. We shucked corn and ended up with this:

We used the electric knives to cut the corn off the cobs and estimate that we ended up with 84 cups of raw corn. Then we cook it with a recipe from hubby's grandma:

Then we leave it to cool in trays on the counter:

The taller container here was raw corn waiting
to be cooked. The other pans were the cooling pans.
You can also see a couple bags of corn in one
of the Rubbermaid containers.

We then measure it out and bag it. This year, we bought some Rubbermaid containers to keep the freezer bags of corn organized, and they stack nice in the freezer and don't slide all over. We ended up with around 68 cups of cooked corn, so it does reduce in cooking a bit.

It's amazing how much corn you get off of one cob, so we don't have to plant a lot in the garden to get all this. We lost all of our previous cooked and frozen corn last year when the upright freezer was left open overnight by mistake, but this more than makes up for it.

It's a delicious recipe, but the corn we've been planting is so sweet that we have to reduce the sugar of the original recipe. The recipe also calls for butter and a little water and salt.

Now we're restocked on corn for a long time. It's been two years since we did this, and next year we won't plant as much corn.

In a month or so, it'll be time for pumpkins.

Now, it's time for some painting of oldest kid's room. THEN I can get back to edits. At least I'm on the last round, or expect that to be the case.

Life is interesting.

God bless!

quick editing update

Edits are progressing very well on Book 20, almost too well. I'll need another round after I finish this current round.

I really like the story of Zaer and Shen and some brief glimpses of their adventures together, but I still had some rewriting that leaves me thinking I need one more editing round before it's ready.

Very soon, though! After this, it'll be back to writing... starting Book 23. I'm getting close to the end.

Thanks for reading!

Announcing... The BIG project!

I think it's time.

Time to announce the BIG project that's been in the works that I couldn't reveal. I was (metaphorically) biting my tongue hard.

I started a new company. This company now has a fully functional website that had a few bugs shaken out in a slow rollout. Prior experience has taught me that websites always need a slow rollout for this reason. And we found some. My website developer for this project has fixed the few issues uncovered and added a spiffy feature I hadn't even considered. I've had some practice with the admin side of things and am getting the hang of managing this.

Readers here shouldn't be surprised to see the St. Benedict medal cross on the bottom of the new site. And if you're not a regular reader, you probably wouldn't even realize what it is or care.

It is finally ready for a full reveal, a passion project that has been waiting years to happen. Now, it's real...

Go to spotlightonindiesff.com to see the finished site with the first books already listed.

I'll be adding books myself of works that I want to promote, but authors can submit their own SFF books to be featured on the site.

ps--I wanted to keep this completely separate from my author site, so I am using a different website developer. We have so much talent in this town! Both of them are great!

Are you saved? (video title)

 

LEARN YOUR FAITH! The Queenship of Mary | Dr Scott Hahn (video title)

Busy week

The editing on Book 20 slowed a bit with an unexpected early finishing of the big project.

I still can't say what that other special big project is. It's gone into the beta testing and tweaking stage. I've selected a few trusted individuals to provide their feedback.

But now that it's to this point, I can switch gears to focusing on editing again. I have a week and a half to make my goal. I'll be digging in to finish that and get Book 20 published.

It'll be a while yet before the big project is ready for a public announcement, but it's going to be great.

Stay tuned!

Part 2 of 2: Understanding the Sacraments. A New Summary! Explaining the Faith w/Fr. Chris Alar (video title)