Beatrice G Smith

Living Through the Dying Process

They that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31 KJV)Because the devil comes to steal, to kill and to destroy does not mean that he will. Coming to do something and d...

The Prairie Garden: Seventy Native Plants You Can Grow in Town or Country

Prairie plants are among the toughest of all ornamentals. While they fascinate gardeners with their beauty and versatility, they require little maintenance. They are highly resistant to insect and disease damage, and they need not be replanted every year. In recent years, the idea of growing prairie...

A Painted Herbarium: The Life and Art of Emily Hitchcock Terry (1838-1921)

The Stone Horsemen: Skiagunsta

Spanning continents and cultures…love, hate, greed…faith… Fleeing the Holy Inquisition, young knight Suero de Montaneros de Lugo joins an expedition to the New World. Steeped in the pride and greed of sixteenth-century Spain, dreaming of mountains of gold, the young knight is ill-prepared for an ext...

The Sparrow's Wing:: Maggie(2) McKinnon

A Novel of the Deep South… The year 1885—Deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia, Maggie McKinnon, a young widow, fights to lift herself from poverty—the South’s legacy of the Civil War. She opens The Sparrow, a small mountain inn. Feeling she finally has her life on track, she then finds ...

Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana

Reading and Writing in the Global Workplace: Gender, Literacy, and Outsourcing in Ghana by Beatrice Quarshie Smith explores the conditions that underlie the outsourcing of US data-processing work in Ghana. Here Beatrice Quarshie Smith describes the convergence and interplay of at least four differen...

Doing Hard Time with a Soft Heart: An Unlikely Friendship Beyond Prison Walls

He was a young black inmate – she, a white woman twice his age. Though they had nothing in common, after over six years of correspondence, they became like family.Ronald, incarcerated at a maximum security prison, was rebellious, intimidating and a ‘troublemaker.’ When God intervened by changing his...