- Age:
- 28
- Location:
- Hiawatha, IA, USA
- Hobbies:
- Jesus, music, art, poetry, reading, movies, sitting and thinking, facebook
- Favorite noveling music:
- This depends on my mood. And what I'm writing (because obviously, song lyrics must be sung as I write them).
- Website:
- http://bj-unleashed.blogspot.com/
- Occupation:
- Substitute teacher, childcare provider, church worker, & my craft
- Favorite books or authors:
- LotR, CoN, HP, Kensington Chronicles, Yellow Rose Trilogy, Cheney Duvall MD Series, A Treasure Deep.... (I could keep going a long time with this, but I think this list is lengthy enough at the present.), Alcorn, Brouwer, Cussler, older books by Dekker, Gansky, LaHaye/Jenkins, Lawhead, CS Lewis, Lynn & Gilbert Morris (as a team are better than either separately), Oke, Peretti, Rowling, Rushforth, Tolkien, and Wick
Author bio:
I like quotes. And because I like quotes so much, I'm going to share a few of my favorites with you.
"I have standards, Will. Drinking coffee: well below them." -Helen Magnus, Sanctuary
"If wasting time were an olympic sport, I'd be Michael Phelps." -Susan Fullerton
"Let there be goblin hordes ... let there be giant mutated slugs if you really must, but let there also be hope. It may be a grim, thin hope, an Arthurian sword at sunset, but let us know that we do not live in vain." -Terry Pratchett
"Bored equals lacking the intelligence to entertain yourself." -Rachel Lisius
"Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing." -Melinda Haynes
"I often wonder how many writers would be diagnosed as clinically insane if they had gone to a doctor instead of picking up a pen. But then the voices tell me to stop worrying about that and keep writing." -E. Davis Brown
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." -Cyril Connolly
"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." -Pearl Strachman
"Never underestimate your audience. They're generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment." Cam Mitchell, Stargate SG-1
“God gives life to you to live, and you can either tell meaningful stories or boring stories.” -Don Miller
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.'" -Erma Bombeck
"I the preacher, despite the odds, dare to believe that God just might show up and use the so-so words of this so-so preacher to transform so-so people into disciples who change the world. And so I open my mouth to release the words God has given me, knowing full well that if he doesn’t bring the dead bones of my mediocre words to life they won’t live and bring life to the dead." -Dr. Luchetti
"Sometimes the only way you can take a really good look at yourself is through somebody else's eyes." -Scrubs
"It’s too bad I’m not as wonderful a person as people say that I am, because the world could use a few people like that." -Alan Alda
"Dear Jesus, Thank you for creating George Lucas. If George Lucas wasn't alive, my life would be as dull as fruitcake. Sincerely, Jimmy Shanley PS. Write back to me and tell me if aliens are real. Please." -on a card written by a nine-year-old in New York
"Why is it every time I come to you for advice, you give me logic instead?" -Hawkeye, M*A*S*H
"It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time." -Anonymous
"I don't intend to die today-- I have too many things I have to get done tomorrow." -Kirk Douglas
"You don't know if you're sick, but you're more than willing to take drugs, just in case. Seems to me, you could give the Man Upstairs the same benefit of the doubt that you do an invisible fungus." -Booth, Bones
" 'How hard could it be?' The phrase that launched a thousand trauma units..." -Bob the Squirrel
"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much." -Mother Teresa
"We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better." -JK Rowling
"In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet." -Albert Schweitzer
“It was so much like God to create, to imagine possible worlds and then to actualize one of them. Creation is an act of imaginative love.” -Cornelius Plantiga, Jr.
"Someday you will read in the paper that I am dead. Don't believe it for an instant. I'll be more alive than ever before." -D.L. Moody
