Hi friends, I don’t know if you heard but we moved to Florida last September. Twoweeks later Hurricane Helene hit and completely flooded our house withfour feet of water. With almost everything still in boxes since we’d betraveling one of those two weeks, we lost 95% of our belongings and twocars. It turned into six months of waiting on insurance and four Airbnb stays, butwe are finally back … [Read more...]

I hope you had a meaningful and enjoyable Memorial Day. Like many people, I’m guessing, I spent part of the weekend planting flowers. Where I live in Minnesota (the upper Midwest US), Memorial Day is often considered the earliest “safe” time to plant flowers. While I transplanted my simple pots of geraniums, petunias, and marigolds, I found myself thinking of the beautiful … [Read more...]

Today is the first day of my last week in my current decade. It's honestly a little hard to believe that I'm as ancient as I am. On Friday I'll enter the decade that I've always thought of as "officially OLD." Ouch! But I'm not going to fret. I did that my last decade and it turned out to be for no good reason. On my 20th birthday I was a newlywed living in New York with Ken, but we had … [Read more...]

For the first time ever, a series of mine is available as an ebook "box set"! In other words, readers can purchase the whole series HERE on Amazon in one fell swoop. To create the set, I began by combining all three books inside Vellum, the formatting software I use. Check out this cute title page I made using the illustrated couples from the three covers... Then I went on the website … [Read more...]

This month marks 40 years since I graduated from high school. How is that even possible? So in honor of the occasion, I thought I’d show all the young ones out there what the mid-1980s were really like, at least in Texas! (Forgive the photo quality. It was a long time ago and they’ve been in photo albums for 40 years!)  Big Hair Yep. Big hair was even bigger in Texas! And when your hair … [Read more...]

I'm currently writing a series on the matriarchs: Sarah, Rebekah, and Leah (Rachel is in Leah's book). And, as always with biblical characters, I've had to search for any and all existing information because the Bible tends to remain silent about the women. I have, however, discovered two extra-biblical books that have been passed down through history: The Book of Jasher and the Book of … [Read more...]