Hi friends, and happy Wednesday!  I’m writing this from my new office in our new home in Florida. Yep! We just made a big move from Maryland, where we’d lived for thirty-one years, to Florida. Let me tell you, you can accumulate A LOT of stuff being in the same house for thirty years. Yikes!  We had a purging party, decluttered, and sent a ton to Goodwill and the Veterans Pick … [Read more...]

As a writer, I spend a lot of time sitting at a desk. (I have the option to raise the platform my laptop sits on, but I concentrate better when sitting.) I’ve suffered from neck pain for many years, which long hours hunched over the keyboard don’t help!  I also experience some wrist pain after long writing sessions, and occasionally lower back pain as well. I know these are minor problems in … [Read more...]

Ken and I just returned from the American Christian Fiction Writers Conference in New Orleans a couple of hours ago and my heart is full. And the authors of Inspired by Life...and Fiction were very well-represented during the gala awards night at the conference! Angie, Becky, Cara, D'Ann, Karen and I were all in New Orleans, but Tammy and Dani won awards even though they weren't able to be … [Read more...]