About me - Karen Shoemaker

About me

What to say? What to say? I don't feel that I am very interesting. So I'll just give the basics. I'm almost 48, married for going on 26 yrs. We have two grown children, one of each. One married, one out on his own. I am a homemaker. He is a mechanic. A very good mechanic.
Our entire lives right now revolve around two little people. About three years ago we became the gaurdians of now 4 1/2 yr. old twins. It's a long story and I'm sure I'll go into it more in my future writings. They are our entire life.

Briefly me

My passion is ...

my faith, my family, writing, reading, gardening

I know too much about ...

nothing

My parents always told me ...

nothing usuable

My childhood ambition ...

to grow up and get out, and to be a writer

My favorite memory ...

being pregnant with my kids, and the birth of the twins

Why I write ...

to let it all out

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

reading - whatever I get my hands on, watching - not much, listening to - the twins fight

My first job ...

too long ago to care

My inspiration ...

to write and to get published

Featured article by Karen Shoemaker

Relationships & Family > Dating Commentary Dating vs. courtship

My daughter was seventeen when she started dating the man who was to become her husband. He was twenty-two. We are Christians and had fairly strict rules about dating especially when there was a five year age difference and he had a past before he became a Christian. We had known this particular young man for a few years. He helped with the Junior High Youth Group at our Church. We liked him well enough although there had been a few problems involving him being too rough with our Junior High age son. But that's another story. I wasn't surprised when he asked me one Sunday night if he could...

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