{"id":255,"date":"2009-10-13T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=255"},"modified":"2009-10-13T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T08:48:00","slug":"author-allie-pleiter-knitter-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/author-allie-pleiter-knitter-mom","title":{"rendered":"Author Allie Pleiter, Knitter &amp; Mom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/StIa_PRw5XI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/xwk0SBpM_CM\/s1600-h\/Allie-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 133px; height: 166px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/StIa_PRw5XI\/AAAAAAAAApg\/xwk0SBpM_CM\/s320\/Allie-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391401377651025266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>My guest today is a writer who exudes joie de vie, Allie Pleiter. Here&#8217;s Allie:<\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">&#8220;More than anything, it\u2019s our choices that define us.  So many times I\u2019m awed by Christ\u2019s choices&#8211;to stop and listen to one person when the whole world was clamoring for His attention, to stay put when I would have skittered around inefficiently, to confront when I would have hid, to be kind when I would have resorted to harsh words.  By His actions, Christ teaches me that <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">choices<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"> are not the same thing as <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">circumstances<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">My circumstances this past year have included some serious medical challenges for my son&#8211;and by inclusion, our entire family.  Now, medical challenges make me break out in hives (pun intended).  I\u2019m a control freak&#8211;maybe that\u2019s why I write those types of characters so vividly&#8211;and medicine is <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">not<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"> the native habitat of control freaks.  Let\u2019s simply say God\u2019s been working on my character.   This, if you haven\u2019t already experienced it, is not fun. I can\u2019t control fevers, or test results, or long waits or the whole \u201cwe\u2019ll just have to wait and see\u201d that has been our journey&#8211;and quite frankly, it\u2019s making me nuts. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">I choose, however, to try and embrace it as much as I can.  I make friends with the providers and staff my son and I come across. I learn their names and call them by name whenever I can.  I count blessings.  I hunt down silver linings.  I knit soft fuzzy things while in waiting rooms.  I celebrate every tiny goal I can get my hands on.  In our house, a blood draw gets you a trip to Dairy Queen, period.  Even if it\u2019s dinnertime. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Shallow?  Maybe.  I\u2019m aware that most of what I do to cope wouldn\u2019t qualify as much more than a parlor trick.  But I\u2019ve found that if you pile up enough of those tiny blessings, you plant the seeds of courage and strength.  You install the counterbalance to fear and invite the fragrance of grace.  For I believe that grace is grown and given, never earned or stuffed into place.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/StIa-hKxzuI\/AAAAAAAAApY\/l06ldxyuoXE\/s1600-h\/Allie.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor: pointer; width: 105px; height: 166px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_n-AHFKBV0rY\/StIa-hKxzuI\/AAAAAAAAApY\/l06ldxyuoXE\/s320\/Allie.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391401365273693922\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">In BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS, Mary Thorpe learns that grace means trusting others with who we really are&#8211;weaknesses and all.  She thinks her new neighbors will run her out of Middleburg once they know her secret.  Yet, as a new believer, she\u2019s still learning how God\u2019s grace smoothes over the friction between us and builds opportunity where we would normally see disaster.  The Prince of Peace can always redeem Christmas, even when we\u2019ve made a royal mess of things.  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Perhaps <\/span><\/span><i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">most especially<\/span><\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"> when we\u2019ve made a royal mess of things.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Come visit me at <a href=\"http:\/\/alliepleiter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">alliepleiter.com<\/a> or to my knitting blog at <a href=\"http:\/\/destiknitions.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">destiKNITions.blogspot.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">AUTHOR BIO:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">An avid knitter, coffee junkie, and devoted chocoholic, <span class=\"il\">Allie<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Pleiter<\/span> writes both fiction and non-fiction.  The enthusiastic but slightly untidy mother of two, <span class=\"il\">Allie<\/span> spends her days writing books, doing laundry, running carpools, and finding new ways to avoid housework.  She grew up in Connecticut, holds a BS in Speech from Northwestern University, spent fifteen years in the field of professional fundraising, and currently lives in suburban Chicago, Illinois.  The \u201cdare from a friend\u201d to begin writing nine years ago has given rise to a career spanning two parenting books, eight novels including the multi-nominated MY SO-CALLED LOVE LIFE, and various national speaking engagements on faith, women\u2019s issues, and writing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Georgia;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">BACK COVER COPY:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">#4 In the KENTUCKY CORNERS Series<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><b><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">ISBN 13# 978-0-373-87556-6<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; min-height: 14px;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><\/span><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">An Old Fashioned Christmas&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">That\u2019s what led new believer Mary Thorpe to start over in quaint Middleburg, Kentucky.  As director of the church\u2019s Christmas pageant, Mary\u2019s job is to bring the townspeople together, to remind them what the season is really about.  But everyone is all riled up over one very handsome man:  the man daring to run against Middleburg\u2019s popular long-standing mayor.  Mac MacCarthy wants change.  Mary wants things to stay as they are.  Is there a happy medium? Both Mac and Mary are in for one very big Christmas surprise.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p   style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;font-family:Helvetica;font-size:12px;\"><\/p>\n<p face=\"Helvetica\" size=\"12px\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\">Thanks, Allie!<br \/><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p face=\"Helvetica\" size=\"12px\" style=\"margin: 0px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is a writer who exudes joie de vie, Allie Pleiter. 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