Dorcas Smucker Book Winner

Some happy soul won free copy of Dorcas Smucker's latest book, Tea and Trouble Brewing. Congratulations to...you didn't think I'd give a sneak preview, did you?

To all of you who read my review of Dorcas Smucker’s new book Tea and Trouble Brewing, thank you!

To all of you who entered the drawing for a free copy of that book, thank you!

To Dorcas Smucker, who graciously commented on my review and who generously provided the book to give away, thank you!

To Research Randomizer, which provided the winning number, thank you! (Disclaimer: I didn’t properly vet that site. If it’s a bad one, I hope Zone Alarm and Microsoft Security Essentials did their jobs!)

Now, here’s the winning number! Read it all

Blue Host Not for Me

Wherein Mark Roth quizzes Blue Host and decides against Web hosting with them. Their TOS for image use is unrealistically stringent. I'm disappointed.

I’ve heard so many good things about Blue Host that I finally decided I would switch my domains and sites to them.

Several weeks ago I started the registration process to open an account. I got to the end of one form and there sat the empty checkbox in front of a statement saying I’d read and accept their various terms of service.

I hadn’t.

So I put the process on hold and started wading through their long TOS. So many convoluted sentences to struggle through! I took days at it because too much of that kind of tedious, complicated reading at one time is just too much at one time.

Eventually I came to this:

Subscribers may not post or disclose any personal or private information about or images of children or any third party without the consent of said party or a parent’s consent in the case of a minor.

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Dorcas Smucker Book Drawing Winding Down

Last call to enter to win Dorcas Smucker's new book, Tea and Trouble Brewing.

I expect to choose a winner the day after tomorrow.

At this point, it appears 31 people have entered the drawing for Dorcas Smucker’s newest book: Troubles in a Tea Pot. Actually, that is not the title.

For the correct title (and to enter the drawing), just click that pretend title.

Trouble and Tea Meet in Dorcas Smucker’s Teapot

I pour myself a cupload for the hilarity...and am not disappointed. Then I discover the life lessons...and am blessed.

Closing his devotional at a recent Hopewell business meeting, our former bishop remarked that he’d been reading a new book that afternoon and had a quote for us:

When he concluded with “by Dorcas Smucker,” I knew which book he’d been reading. 🙂

A few days after that, I was chatting a bit with one of my high school Spanish students. She had just slipped back into school from her first round of chemo for Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. Read it all

Above all, love God!

since November 9, 2005