I was so excited back in the spring to hear about her book coming out, and when I read about it in WORLD magazine, I saw that her co-author would be a woman about Sarah’s age named Lynn Vincent. She’s a feature’s editor at WORLD (fabulous news magazine we get monthly and use for our kids for current events, etc.)

Anyhoo…I was terribly curious to know more about Lynn because if Sarah chose her to handle such a huge writing responsibility – and such a personal trust – I’m thinking Lynn has to be a very gifted and exceptional lady.

The first thing I did was order Lynn’s best selling Same Kind of Different As Me (Thomas Nelson, 2006). It’s a true, particularly moving story that I couldn’t put down and highly recommend. Seriously.

Well I heard Sarah’s book was originally slated for release in spring of 2010 – but Sarah can’t be stopped and she knew better – it had to be NOW!

I was about to write Costco and chastise them for not touting the book in their monthly mag in October or November. The WWW (whole wide world) knew it was about to be delivered, pre-sales were going crazy and I kept wondering, “are they ‘politely’ ignoring all the buzz?” I was getting ticked.

They had space to give Albert ‘Gory’ Gore the flashy cover story but no room inside for Sarah Palin, the one who has left Gore waaaayyy back there in the dust somewhere with all the other paltry public figures. Go figure. (Perhaps they believe he did invent the internet…or, are they partial to his global warming theories?) I gave them the benefit of the doubt for a couple of months. (Perhaps their mag issues were put to bed months in advance and when she stepped up the publication date, she threw them? hmmm.)

At last…they made room to advertise her book in the December issue. I get goosebumps every time I check the headlines and the multitudes are lining up from sea to shining sea just to get a glimpse of this gal and grab her signature. I just love this lady.

PULEeeezzze pray for the Palins! From the media feeding frenzy over the past year or so, one can imagine the tactics abounding to try to discourage this family.

It appears that Providence has plucked her from the multitudes for such a time as this. I watched her Barbara Walters and Oprah interviews and I was so proud of her. She radiated and stood her ground so gracefully. What a woman.

Happy reading!

…lived up to our sad expectations during our 16 year-old’s first week on campus (thankfully very part-time).  While sitting in the school parking lot waiting for our son to exit his class, my husband became incensed as he pondered our tax dollars at work in subsidizing the scene before his eyes.   As the herd of apparently lost and/or indiscreet, mostly young people meandered about,  he grieved at how far our nation has fallen below an acceptable standard of morality, purity, self-respect and self-restraint. 

Levi sized up one of his ‘professors-with-a-liberal-agenda’ with such keen insight and attributed his sharp awareness of the classroom in part to a book he’s fallen in love with, Letters To A Young Conservative, by Dinesh D’Souza (see cover above).  He said he needs to read a chapter daily to strengthen his resolve against the sly spirit of his extremely liberal professor.   I’m thankful for such a tool for our family arsenal as we wage war in our current circumstances.  Trying to decide if we’ll drop the class and learn online or weather this quarter’s classroom storm…