Karen Strand freelance writer
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KAREN HAS WORKED as Health Editor and reporter for the Times News Group, in San Jose.  She has authored one book and contributed to ten gift book anthologies. Her articles have appeared in a wide variety of both secular and Christian publications, including Writer's Digest, California Today, Focus on the Family and Guideposts. She currently writes health-related articles for Hope for Women magazine and other periodicals. In her “spare time” Strand keeps up with a pen pal outreach to prison inmates.  (See "Did Jesus Die for Larry?")
      Currently residing in the Pacific Northwest, Karen lives with her husband, Paul, one bossy cat named Tater Tot, and a mischievous dog named Daffy.  She is Mom to four grown children, stepmom to three, and grandma to a wide assortment of kids whose ages range from eighteen to three.  She reads a lot, walks when motivated, and swims at every opportunity.

Read more about her book including the first chapter here.

On the Web

The Neighbors Next Door
Why had I put off visiting them for so long?
by Karen Strand

Dinner for Two
by Karen Strand

Mom, I'm in control
by Karen Strand

The Day I Learned to Pray
Power, that was something else again
by Karen Strand

A Time for Life
Will we savor the moments God gives us with people we love
by Karen Strand

The Story I Cannot Let Go
Winner of the August, 2002 Writer's Digest Chronicle contest
by Karen Strand

   Articles
    Published in:
  1. Accent on Living
  2. Aglow
  3. Back Home in Kentucky
  4. Bowler’s Journal
  5. California Today
  6. Christian Reader
  7. Christian Medical Society Journal
  8. Church of God, Evangel
  9. Decision
  10. Family Life Today
  11. Focus on the Family
  12. Ford Times
  13. Guideposts
  14. Hope for Women
  15. Inside Journal
  16. Home Life
  17. KVSN Radio Newsletter
  18. Lady's Circle
  19. LIVE
  20. Logos Journal
  21. Los Gatos Magazine
  22. Mature Living
  23. Moody Magazine
  24. Single Parent Family
  25. Spiritled Woman
  26. The Christian Writer
  27. The Joyful Woman
  28. The Shantyman
  29. Today's Christian
  30. Today's Christian Woman
  31. Today's Christian Parent
  32. Vegetarian Times
  33. Venture
  34. Virtue
  35. Western Baptist Communicator
  36. Women's Touch
  37. Woman's World
  38. Writer's Digest
  39. Abfahrt (Germany)
  40. Entscheidung (Germany)
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