We're coming up on five years living in Southeast Missouri next month and something that is equally delightful and frustrating are the deer that wander (or sometimes stampede!) through our yard daily. We live along a waterway between two wooded areas and the deer make forays from woods to woods daily. We've counted as many as 42 deer running through the yard at one time! Forty-two! That's not a … [Read more...]

This week, our own Dani Pettrey and I are both teaching at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writers Conference in the gorgeous Blue Ridge Mountains near Black Mountain, NC. It always feels like a family reunion coming to this conference and so fun for a rare chance to hug Dani's neck. So wonderful to see dear writer friends and soak in the beauty of this campus. I've been teaching at this … [Read more...]