{"id":2643,"date":"2019-09-20T11:33:47","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T17:33:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.pelicanbookgroup.com\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2023-05-26T09:15:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T15:15:44","slug":"interview-with-michael-james-moriarty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pelicanbookgroup.com\/blog\/interview-with-michael-james-moriarty\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Michael James Moriarty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tFrom Kathleen D. Bailey&#39;s Westward Hope\n<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: Lucida Grande,Tahoma,Arial,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>Where do you live, and why do you choose to live there?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>I have no home; I travel with the wagon train as scout for Pace Williams. At the time of this book I&#39;m on the run from two thugs from my native Ireland, so I have to keep moving. I&#39;m evading punishment for a murder I didn&#39;t commit.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 247, 251);\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>What is a quirk of your personality that people don&#39;t know?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>My superficial, silver-tongued charm hides a need to be loved &#8212; and forgiven.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>Who chronicled your story, and why do you think he\/she picked you?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Kathleen D. Bailey wrote this book and I think she chose me to write about because she wanted to show how God&#39;s redemption can come to everyone, even a stubborn Irishman on the run.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 247, 251);\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>What obstacles did you overcome in order to reach your happily-ever-after?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>I left Caroline in Summer Pasture, Ohio, because I didn&#39;t want her mixed up in my running from the thugs. I didn&#39;t know that she carried our child, and that my best friend Daniel married her to keep her from shame. I never forgot her, and when she showed up as cook on our wagon train, it opened all kinds of memories, good and bad. She had to forgive me, and I had to accept her forgiveness and God&#39;s, before we settled in the Oregon Country and made our home.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>Tell us about your special lady. What makes her so special?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Caroline Pierce O&#39;Leary Moriarty is beautiful inside and out. When I saw her again on the wagon train, she had a new radiance, the radiance that comes from Christ alone. I resisted for a while, thinking, what would God want with the likes of me? But her forgiveness showed me that God would forgive me too. Her example led me Home.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background-color: rgb(243, 247, 251);\">\n<td colspan=\"2\" style=\"border-bottom-color: rgb(222, 222, 222); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; font-family: Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 5px;\" width=\"100%\">\n\t\t\t\t<span><strong>The first time you saw your special person, what did you think? Was it love at first sight or did she have to grow on you?<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span>I first saw Caroline at the schoolhouse dance back in Summer Pasture. My best friend Dan and I went to the dance to welcome the new school teacher. I don&#39;t know if I loved her, I was too young and shallow to love anyone, but she was mine from the first dance. We became lovers. I was her first, she was the first one who mattered. But I got nervous about the men on my trail, and left before she had a chance to tell me about our child. She eventually married my best friend, who led her to the Lord.<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Westward Hope: An Oregon Trail Historical Romance (Western Dreams)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"1080\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_ckrW2rXWuUeq6Y&#038;asin=B07XSKSVCK&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Kathleen D. 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