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A FREEBIE

November 16, 2019 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

Happy November! Hope your month is going well. Usually at this time of the year, I’m scurrying to create new items and have them printed and packaged for a booth I rent at Christ Presbyterian’s Holiday Boutique. This year, the boutique falls on my granddaughter Olivia’s birthday, so I won’t be there and I’ll miss seeing your kind faces and visiting with you. Being we’re nearing Thanksgiving, I’d like to say thank you to you, for reading my blog, for buying my books, and for buying at my Etsy store, juliesaffrinsstuff. I’d like to give you a freebie that you…

Giving Thanks: Honor a Loved One Who Has Passed

November 28, 2012 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

“So, will everyone be home for the holidays?” For many of us whose loved ones have passed away, this is a question we dread. When you’ve lost a family member, never again will everyone be home for the holidays. You will always be missing your loved one’s presence at your family’s celebrations…. Come read the rest of my guest blog post on Teri Johnson’s Keeping It Personal blog.

Irene Christiansen – An Illuminator

August 9, 2012 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

They stand mostly abandoned now, these one-room country schools. But as the following story by Florence Smallfield reveals, they were places held in high esteem, where community happened and children of all ages received instruction in education and a way to go in life. Florence’s story of her family’s farm in Flandreau, South Dakota came to me through my mother. Both women attend church together. You can read her moving account of her family’s BlessBack in BlessBack: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life by purchasing a copy of the paperback version here. Or, if you prefer, the e-book version of BlessBack is FREE for…

A BlessBack Guest Post

July 28, 2012 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

Michell Lim who writes Thoughts on Plot featured me yesterday on her FanFriday! Check it out here: http://bit.ly/PReIoB Thanks, Michelle.

A BlessBack Interview

July 24, 2012 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

$4.99 for your Kindle! Order HERE. I’m still celebrating the eBook release of BlessBack: Thank Those Who Shaped Your Life. Today I’m featured on author Karen Baney’s blog. Get to know the story behind BlessBack and a little about my journey. Here’s the link. I know Karen would love your taking the time to leave her a comment if you liked the blog post. As always, thank you for taking the time to stop and read my posts. I appreciate all of you who have written me. Julie Saffrin Follow BlessBack’s Facebook Fan Page here. Follow BlessBack (@blessback) on Twitter here.…

BlessBack, A Dream of Mine

June 4, 2012 • Julie Saffrin • Leave a Comment

February 2012 Blog BlessBack, This Dream Made Real “ … there should be long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living.” — Friedrich Neitzsche, Beyond Good and Evil February, 2012 I am sitting here, like I do most daylight hours, trying to create a worthwhile combination of words — words that will evoke meaning and emotion. Words that will make someone’s life different, if only for one hour. Seems like I have sat here for years, typing in the same direction, trying to make…

BlessBack Dinner, part 1

April 10, 2012 • Julie Saffrin • 1 Comment

So, you’d like to host a BlessBack Dinner. While some of you have shared your BlessBack stories with me, others have expressed an interest in wanting to thank your life influencers over a meal. This is a wonderful idea and your life influencer will be forever grateful. Here are three possible options for you to consider: 1. Take your honoree out to a restaurant for dinner. 2. Invite your honoree to your home for dinner. 3. Find two or three of your friends and plan a BlessBack meal with each of you inviting your BlessBack honorees to the meal. For…