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Craig Matthews

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Craig ran away from his Michigan home at seventeen with his girlfriend. He had sold the love of his life on the romantic idea of living in the wild, wild west. So they wrote goodbye notes to all of their family and friends, packed the car and left on a sunny June afternoon with three hundred and fifty dollars between them.

God rudely interrupted the fanciful journey at a rest area west of Chicago with a one-in-a-million chance meeting. Craig walked through the entry door to the old facility at the same moment his cousin exited. Joe, who is twenty years older, just happened to be moving to Colorado that day with his family. Long story short, Joe appealed to their sense of family and encouraged them to call home before they continued westward
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Restart Your Engines!

Whew. It's been a long time.

Life has really changed over the last few years. I'm still writing, but I have endured significant life change and challenge. Currently i an sitting in a camper overlooking Lake Huron in Michigan's Thumb. It's only an hour from home but it is a world away.

I'm working on a new novel based on Irish Folklore but applying it in a late 1960's through late 1980's American t Read more of this blog post »
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“I don't think we choked this time. We never played well enough to choke.”
― Craig Matthews

“Forgiveness is the language of heaven.”
― Rebecca Nichols Alonzo, The Devil in Pew Number Seven

“I forgive you.” Those just might be the three most difficult words in the world to say to someone who has wronged you—especially if you mean what you’re saying. Come to think of it, it’s even more difficult to forgive the offender before he or she has asked for forgiveness—and virtually impossible to extend forgiveness to a person who, by all appearances, may never apologize for his or her actions.”
― Rebecca Nichols Alonzo, The Devil in Pew Number Seven

“Layer upon layer of soft-packed snowflakes settled in near silence, forming a quilt of feathery ice crystals.”
― Rebecca Nichols Alonzo, The Devil in Pew Number Seven

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