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Julie Lyles Carr

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Twenty Years of Stories

This is the archive: two decades of questions, lessons, and moments worth writing down. I don't publish here much anymore, but I do still write about my life today, what I'm up to, travel, family, work insights, and more. If you want the current stuff, that's what the newsletters are for and I'd love for you to subscribe.

FREE Summer Bible Study!

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SO CRAZY EXCITED! With all the activities and travel and sunshine of summer, it can be a challenge to stay in the groove of staying in the Word. That’s why I’m so, so, so excited to offer an online option for you for the summer. And then this… It’s FREE! It’s called The Footnotes and it’s fresh off the digital…
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The Choosing: Rachelle Dekker

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Today’s a big day. Rachelle Dekker’s novel is officially on the shelves. The Choosing. It’s the first in a trilogy. And I have the feeling that I’ll be engaging in some serious sleep procrastination to read into the wee hours. (You can order The Choosing here, both print and digital). Rachelle got a pretty compelling guy to interview her about…
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Pick the Pic: #amwriting

Raising an Original· Writing

All right, team, needing some help here. One of the interesting aspects of writing are all the components along the way that aren’t writing. The contracts and marketing decisions and social media planning and on and on. It’s fascinating, it’s sort of like extended homework, and there are lots of decisions and calls to make right now for a book…
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How?

Parenting· Question

We’ve gone from the above… To this… To somewhere here… Happy, happy birthday, Twinkies. You have provided craziness, mess, joy, more mess, more joy and all kinds of hilarious stories. We love you each like crazy. You’ll always be our babies!

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