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Graceann recently published her memoir, Divine Betrayal (divinebetrayal.com). Graceann Kolenda Deters was born on April 21, 1934 in Clio, Michigan.  She lived in Brazil from 1939 to 1952.  She and her husband, Bill Deters, have three children and five grandchildren, and live in Incline Village, Nevada.  Since 1997, Graceann has been a partner and manager with her husband in their current business, W.G..Securities LLC, a firm that invests in real estate and emerging companies.

Graceann earned her graduate degree in Human Development from St. Mary’s University in 1986, after having previously undertaken graduate work in educational psychology at the University of Minnesota, where she also completed a nursing education degree with honors in 1958.  She also graduated from Burge Hospital School of nursing in Springfield, Missouri in 1956, which today is called Cox College of Nursing and Health Services.  Graceann has a long history of community work and involvement.

 

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3 Health Benefits of Prayer

Posted in health & fitness, spirituality on September 02, 2009

I read recently in Andrew Newberg’s new book, How God Changes Your Brain: Breakthrough Findings from a Leading Neuroscientist
 that just 12 minutes a day in any type of prayer is…

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Many Ways to Pray

Posted in spirituality on July 01, 2009

The definition of prayer is: an attempt to communicate with the higher power which created the universe. This is something that many people share in common, yet they may differ in the…

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Choosing The Title For Your Book

Posted in books & entertainment on June 24, 2009

Choosing the right book title is a very difficult and important decision.  The title has to describe what the book is about and should inspire a person to buy and read the…

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Defy aging by writing your memoir!

Posted in books & entertainment, health & fitness on June 05, 2009

DEFY AGING BY WRITING YOUR MEMOIR

Bill and I celebrated 50 years of marriage on December 28, 2008. We were not teenagers when we married and today we’re in our seventies. However,…

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Response to: Memoir: How much do I tell?

Comment posted on July 11, 2009 at 8:43 pm:
"Thanks for the encouragement about my memoir, Divine Betrayal. I struggled, too, with "how much to tell." In the end, I told the TRUTH, though many family members were unhappy and some even called me "sick" for revealing what had happened. But I had ..." (read comment)

Response to: Home Another Way

Comment posted on July 2, 2009 at 3:49 am:
"Loved The Shack, also! It resonated with me, as I have also experienced great disappointment and pain with God, and also renewal of my faith. divinebetrayal.com Thanks for the suggestion, love, Grace..." (read comment)

Response to: Who cares about Jon and Kate?

Comment posted on June 24, 2009 at 2:29 am:
"Life is too short to watch TV, ladies! :) ..." (read comment)

Response to: How do we Boomers release the artist within?

Comment posted on June 24, 2009 at 2:27 am:
"I am 75 years old, and I'm only now discovering that I enjoy writing. But it was really hard; emotionally, physically, and spiritually, to write my book, and I had a lot of help. I hired a ghostwriter to help me at first, but now I am writing my own ..." (read comment)