Dear Reader,
Tricia Goyer, this week’s guest author, has written more than 80 fiction and nonfiction books related to family and parenting. This USA Today, best -selling author has won two Carol Awards, a Retailer's Best Award, and she was an ECPA Silver-Medallion Winner and a Christy Award Nominee.
Tricia is a beloved author of World War II fiction, as well as having written the bestselling Big Sky and Seven Brides for Seven Bachelors Amish series. She is host of the podcast, The Tricia Goyer Show, and a homeschooling mom of ten, including seven by adoption. Tricia is also a grandmother to many grandchildren and a wife to John. With a busy life she understands the importance of making every word count.
Tricia's latest release is a nonfiction title, Heart Happy, answers the question: What Does It Take to Find--and Keep--a Happy Heart?
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Please welcome author Tricia Goyer…
One of the very first things I do to prepare for summer is this: buy passes for our community pool. There is nothing special about this pool. It's small, with one slide and one diving board. It's filled with kids from the nearby neighborhoods and sometimes with groups from camps or daycares that triple the volume at their arrival.
Yet, this rectangle of refreshing water is enough to keep my three youngest kids entertained for hours. They're all in middle school and good swimmers, so I don't have to watch them continually. Instead, as they splash and dive, I find a reclining chair and pull out a book--usually a novel.
Lathered in sunscreen, with a sun hat on my head and an icy water bottle by my side, I travel to other worlds. Sometimes it's small town Georgia during World War II. Or to outer space with a humanoid who realizes she's more human than anyone thought. Recently, it was to Neverland with a modern-day Peter Pan who wore a green hoodie and a Tiger Lily who wore a leather jacket and had teal streaks in her black hair. These worlds enthrall me, only allowing me to return to the pool when splashes of water hit my hot legs, pulling me from the literary dream.
To me, summer equals books. In fact, I clearly remember riding my bike away from school after my last day of fifth grade with the anticipation of a summer of endless reading ahead of me. Summer days meant waiting for the library doors to open and checking out a small pile. Then I'd find someplace to read: reclined on my bed, on the couch, or on the lawn. Back then, Nancy Drew, Little House on the Prairie, and sweet teen romances were my favorite picks. Soon I branched out to other mysteries and historical novels. As I combed through the shelves of the small library searching for intrigue, escape and drama, I developed a habit that has sticked with me for life.
I'm not sure how many other people connect the coconut scent of sunscreen with pulling out a paperback, but I wouldn't have it any other way. The heat may come, the kids may splash, and you'll find me sitting off to the side of the community pool, my nose in a good book.
-- Tricia Goyer
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