July 2015
This month, to celebrate the upcoming release of Silver Linings, we’re giving away a $300 gift card to bedandbreakfast.com. The gift card can be used at thousands of bed and breakfast locations around the world! The grand prize winner will also receive an autographed Read more
Summer Fun
Wayne and I, along with friends Ed and Diane, headed off on a five day wine tour in Yakima and Walla Walla last week. Washington State is the largest wine producing state behind California. Boy did we have fun and Read more
Community Conscious: 6 Books on Making a Difference
Here are five stories — both fiction and nonfiction — that show what a difference being a community do-gooder can have. Any one of these books may leave you wondering if there are more ways service might fit into your Read more
A Beautiful Bride & Handsome Groom
Wayne and I have some exciting news to share. Our son Ted was married to Irina Nelson this weekend. The nuptials took place on our front lawn in a small, private ceremony with family and two of Irina’s closest friends. Read more
Glad for Dad
The other morning during my prayer time I found myself mentally fussing about something Wayne did that irritated me. It didn’t take long before I found myself stewing far more than I was praying. Then it dawned on me that Read more
Sunrise-Sunset Moments
Cameron LaCombe, our oldest grandson graduated from high school last night. It’s hard to believe the little boy I once held in my arms is a young adult now. It’s one of those sunrise/sunset moments in life for Wayne and Read more
The flying monkey
Wayne and I are home from the cruise and adjusting to life without a buffet line or someone who makes crafty animals out of towels to place on our bed at night. (My personal favorite was the flying monkey that Read more
Zig Ziglar
June 2015
This month one lucky grand prize winner will receive this beautiful gift set straight from Debbie Macomber’s tea room! The set includes a signed hard cover copy of The Inn at Rose Harbor, Rose Harbor in Bloom, Love Letters, and an advance reader’s edition of Silver Linings. The winner Read more
Dr. Seuss
South Kitsap High School will receive long-awaited turf field
South Kitsap School District officials announced a pair of major upgrades to the upper-level athletic complex at the high school during the May 19 school board meeting. SKSD will receive $654,000 in donations from the community to assist in the replacing the grass Read more
Thanks to big gifts, SKHS to get turf field
Cinderella just got the glass slipper. After decades of play on a poorly drained grass field that turned to muck a few games into any sports season, athletes and community members will get a high-quality turf field and new track Read more
Giving Thanks for Spanx
My class reunion is coming up next summer so I’m starting my diet now. It’s a biggie for me. You know, one with a zero in it. (I find anything with a zero in it traumatizing!) I’m seriously considering squeezing Read more
The Breakfast Club
When I decided to write books I was a stay-at-home mom with four young children. I’d worked outside the home only briefly and knew shockingly little about being an entrepreneur. I was a published author writing from home for about Read more
Best Friends
Two of my best friends are writers. Many of you have probably read Linda Lael Miller and Christina Skye. Linda and I used to live two houses apart from each other in Port Orchard and frequently discussed plotting and family Read more
Call Me Mrs. Miracle
Based on Debbie Macomber’s book Call Me Mrs. Miracle No one celebrates the holidays like Emily Merkle (Doris Roberts) – or Mrs. Miracle as she is known by some – who is back to ensure that this Christmas is the Read more
Mrs. Miracle
Based on Debbie Macomber’s book Mrs. Miracle. Losing a spouse is always hard, and for Seth Webster (James Van Der Beek), playing single dad to two rambunctious six-year-olds doesn’t make it any easier. With the holidays approaching, finding a housekeeper Read more
Trading Christmas
Based on Debbie Macomber’s book Trading Christmas. Emily (Faith Ford) misses her daughter Heather (Emma Lahana), who is attending college in Boston. Since her father died, Heather is sensitive to her mom’s dependence on long-standing holiday traditions. This Christmas, Heather Read more
Cedar Cove TV Series
In the Hallmark Channel original series Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove, based on Debbie’s beloved Cedar Cove book series, Judge Olivia Lockhart (Andie MacDowell) is considered the community’s guiding light in the picturesque, coastal town of Cedar Cove, Washington. But like everyone else, Olivia fights the uphill battle of balancing career with family and finding love, all the while doing her best to care for the township she calls home. Read more
Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove Returns to Hallmark Channel in Special Premiere Event, 7/18
Hallmark CHANNEL announces the highly-anticipated return of its #1 Primetime Summer Drama “Debbie Macomber’s Cedar Cove,” in a special two-hour season three World Premiere Saturday, July 18 (8 p.m. ET/PT, 7C). The third season of the network’s first Primetime Original Read more
NWS to welcome author Debbie Macomber
TRAVERSE CITY – Knitting, food and generosity – these are a fewof New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber’s favorite things.She’ll be in northern Michigan this week to talk about these subjects andher books as part of the National Writers Read more
Bestselling author, knitter, to talk crafts on NWS
TRAVERSE CITY – Debbie Macomber won’t be insulted if audience members at her National Writers Series appearance pull out their knitting. The prolific author is an ardent knitter, owns her own yarn shop, and an international spokeswoman for World Vision’s Read more
Bestselling author, knitter, to talk crafts on NWS
TRAVERSE CITY – Debbie Macomber won’t be insulted if audience members at her National Writers Series appearance pull out their knitting. The prolific author is an ardent knitter, owns her own yarn shop, and an international spokeswoman for World Vision’s Read more
NWS to welcome author Debbie Macomber
TRAVERSE CITY – Knitting, food and generosity – these are a few of New York Times best-selling author Debbie Macomber’s favorite things. She’ll be in northern Michigan this week to talk about these subjects and her books as part of the National Writers Read more