pkrains
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | Freelance Writer |
| Location | Arkansas, United States |
| Introduction | Believer and Follower of Jesus Christ the Son of God; HOMEmaker; writer; dreamer of "little girl dreams" :-); collector of numerous cookbooks and Christmas music boxes (not that the two are related!); SS teacher; Cat lover; Momma and Nanna. Active Member of: Woodland Heights Baptist Church, National League of American Pen Women, American Society for Clinical Pathologists, University of Arkansas Alumni Association, and Domestic Engineers of America. |
| Interests | EnJOY writing Sunday School curriculum, cookbooks, reading non-fiction, especially John Piper, C.S. Lewis, Jonathan Edwards, and a few others. Love reading cookbooks of ALL KINDS. Also, love to crochet, play with my grandbabies, teach/care for SS class, study Astronomy, walk with my hubby, do floral arrangements, cook/collect cookbooks, collect JOY Christmas items and music boxes, and love on our "outdoor" tabby cats (Sam and Walton), our "indoor" manx tabby (Abbie, short for Abaigeal--IRISH for JOY--which she definitely is), and of course, spending time with my hubby, Kenneth, too! :-). |
| Favorite Movies | The Notebook; Braveheart; Miracle on 34th Street; Anne of Green Gables Series; Pride and Prejudice, March of the Penguins, Lord of the Rings, Last of the Mohicians, Shall We Dance, Pay It Forward, The Nativity, Austrailia; Twilight Series; Ironman/Ironman2;Sherlock Holmes; and--Just about anything Robert Downey, Jr, Tom Hanks or Mel Gibson stars in or directs is usually pretty good and too numerous to list. |
| Favorite Music | Fav. Hymn: "Great Is Thy Faithfulness" Miscellaneous Favs.: The Eagles, Nickel Creek, Selah, TransSiberian Orchestra, almost all Celtic music (especially hymns), Jason Gray, Daniel Kirkley, Jon McLaughlin, Mark Schultz, Chris Tomlin, Starfield, Todd Agnew, Leeland, Circleslide, Chris Rice, Everything Twyla Paris has ever done, Mitch McVicker, Dave Barnes, Jaime Jamgochian (pronounced: JAM-GO-SHEN ;-), almost any arrangement of Canon in D (ahhhhh!, especially if a chamber orchestra is performing it), Natalie Grant, John Mayer, Kenny G, an occasional Michael W. Smith, and ALWAYS The EAGLES! |
| Favorite Books | The Bible, Truth Talk (Telling Yourself the Truth) (Backus), Future Grace (Piper), The Pleasures of God (Piper), Celebration of Discipline (Foster), The Grace Awakening (Swindoll), Love Must Be Tough (Dobson), Heaven (Alcorn), Heaven: Your Real Home (Tada) Heaven (Randy Alcorn), Knowing God (J.I. Packer), The Pleasures of God (John Piper), Unveiled Hope (Michael Card and Scotty Smith), Future Grace (John Piper), The Dangerous Duty of Delight (John Piper), Don't Waste Your Life (John Piper), I Surrender All (Clay and Renee Crosse), Surprised by JOY (C.S. Lewis), The Chronicles of Narnia (The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe), (C.S. Lewis), Perelandra (C.S. Lewis), Total Forgiveness (R.T. Kendall), The Years (Virginia Woolf), Women and Writing (Virginia Woolf) |
Fav. Quotes: Your words are what sustain me. They bring me great JOY! (Jeremiah 15:16) We look for visions from heaven, for earthquakes and thunders of God's power... and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us. If we will do the duty that lies nearest, we shall see Him. (Oswald Chambers)