Have you ever made a poor decision and the hoped and prayed the consequences of your actions would just disappear? Unfortunately, it doesn’t work that way. The heroines of our Rubies book series are also discovering their actions have consequences that will affect their entire lives. Last week we continued the Rubies Saga by exploring […]
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Rubies – Escaping the Curse-Marty’s Story Continues
https://youtu.be/XYlY9VW3zTALast week we continued our Rubies Saga by beginning Marty’s story. To recap our book so far, we need to go back to Norway in 1913.Kaja Ericsen disobeys her father and marries musician Gunner Ericsen. After the birth of their children, Gunner abandons Kaja for another woman. Alone and unable to support her two daughters, […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Another Tragedy for Kaja
Our book excerpt today picks up shortly after our last week’s story ended. If you’ve been following along you know that Kaja recently became a widow and was left penniless by her husband. She is forced to leave the farm she has known as her home for five years and find a new place to […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – Kaja’s Story Continues
I’m so glad you’ve decided to tune in for another chapter of Rubies – Escaping the Curse. Last week we found Kaja overwhelmed with her life but that wasn’t the worst thing that happened. Her husband, Hans, died from congestive heart failure and she barely mourned his death. Things took another downward swing when she […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – The Death of a Child
Last week you read about the terrible accident in which Kaja’s 18 month old child is burned over her entire body by hot grease. Today we see the outcome of that tragedy and how Kaja’s anger for her husband throws her into heartbreak. She finally sees a side to her husband that she never knew […]
What you need to know about Instagram
Welcome to the world of the Work at Home Grandma. I just took a seminar on Instagram and realized all the good advertising I was missing. It is a fabulous way to increase your business quickly and easily. It’s true that right now it seems to be the interest point for 18 – 25 year […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – The Real Truth
Last week I told you how the idea for Rubies originated and how my mother told me the story of my grandmother’s journey from Norway to America in 1913. In this week’s video, I mention the expected duties of housekeepers in those days and what Kaja endured on her first job in America. Below is […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse – How it all started
If only we could go back in time and change the course of history. Wow, how many of us have wished that we could do just that. Of course we all know it’s impossible to change the past yet we must live with the future. When I began to write the Rubies Saga it started […]
Rubies – Escaping the Curse Available on Amazon
Rubies – Escaping the Curse is the four part family saga now available on Amazon. Get the series here: Rubies Saga Kaja Johnson was a real person whose tragic story is told in the Rubies Saga.
What Does the Word “Antique” Really Mean?
Isn’t it actually an oxymoron when we say we just purchased a new antique chair? But then again we have to think about the stories from the past that the chair could probably tell should it be able to speak. Have you looked around the room of a 200 year old house and stared at the […]