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You Are Never to Old to Start Something New

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Douglas J. Archambault

Starting another year and already in my so-called Golden Years I can not think of what I would be doing today if I never took up writing as an author and poet using my computer. When I retired I had little skills to work on a computer, I certainly was not an advanced user. I had nev

As I close out another of my Golden Years and look forward to a bright, blessed, prosperous and healthy New Year. I wish everyone the best New Year that you can possibly imagine and hope all your crossroads will be blessed.

The Crossroads of my Life

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Golden Years?

Human nature being what it is we have always been concerned about the years ahead. We would like to know what the future would bring. There is a fear of the future with the sickness or death of a loved one. We look in the mirror and see this face looking back at us, and say wow I am getting old. I am reminded in my later years of an incident when I was a store

The Darkness Before The Dawn

WHY SICK AND HEALTHY PEOPLE SHOULD READ THIS BOOK.

IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU, IT MAY BE HAPPENING NOW.

I thought I would send this note to our friends that do not receive news about the many things that are happening to my wife Joan and me concerning our website, books and poetry. Our popularity seams to be increasing weekly and we have placed a FeedBlitz on the front page of our website that lets anyone know any changes that we make or news that becomes available.

People who subscribe leave their contact information, which is

The Day Bruno came to my House

The last rays of sunlight were leaving our pine grove as the sun slowly rested behind the trees.

The pine grove was quiet and not a leaf was moving, not a whisper of a breeze did I feel as I slept the early evening away on our lawn swing.

I dreamed of long ago, in the old

May We Always Remember

May we always remember that day in September and never forget the thousands of innocent lives lost so needlessly six years ago, in the blackened smoke of that clear September morning when our nation was struck by assassins. For a moment our thoughts were turned upside down and our mighty Foundation did not seem so sound. The assassins failed to recog

I have a Scripture reading that comes to mind. Matthew Chapter 26, 35:41. I think of the medical profession when I read this especially the nurses.

“For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me in. I was sick and you looked after me. I was in prison and you came to visit me”.

“Then th

Hi Everyone:

My website douglasjarchambault.com is changing to hespartofmylife.com.

Thanks to everyone on Book Marketing and Book Place I now have the confidence to use my God given talents as a Christian writer, and I would love your support.

I will continue to blog on Book Marketing and Book Place. If anyone wishes to have their link listed on my new web page please feel free to email me.

I believe this w

I would like to share with you another of my poems from my latest book.

THE PINE GROVE IN THE SPRING

Douglas J. Archambault

I remember the pine grove in the spring when nature comes to life.

Like resurrection time when nature awakens from her slumber to the warmth of spring.

I remember the flowers planted

I would like to share with everyone the poem that I wrote that inspired me to write The Darkness Before The Dawn. The anosmatic tube was mentioned because I went without food and the tube was inserted for 10 days. My colon would not wake up.

THE HOSPITAL ROOM

Douglas J. Archambault

I awoke from my hospital bed and gazed into the rays of the morning sun. I realized that the pain of the p

Thanks for the opportunity to join Book Marketing Network. I am very new at writing. I consider myself a 60's navy vet and blue collar worker. I have written three books. Two Stepped Out For Him in 2005, The Darkness Before The Dawn and In MyFootsteps/ Poems To Inspire which I combined into one book in 2006. I have a new childrens book that I am working on,The Adventures of Little Buddy and Grizz, which is about a ten year old boy who gets lost in Yellowstone Park and is befriended by a gigan