Today’s post is a follow-up to one from last month called A Tale of Two Kitties. You can read it here. In it, I wrote about our newly adopted cat, Socks, and our beloved cat of several years, Mojo. They were fighting constantly—Socks tackling and biting, Mojo hissing and hiding, and we had precious little peace in our house for over three months. I confess I was coming close to giving up and … [Read more...]

Ken and I traveled to Seattle last week to visit our youngest son and his family, then on to a weekend adventure in beautiful Port Orchard, Washington. For these landlocked Kansans, the Pacific Northwest is like an amazing foreign country, and even though the weather was chilly and damp, with snow flurries, we had a wonderful time! After speaking to the … [Read more...]

The last time I blogged I mentioned a "top secret writing project that I’d been working on."  I'm back this week to tell you about that now-not-so-secret project. Are you familiar with the term "epistolary"? I wasn't, until I attended a writer's conference and heard Daisy Hutton, Fiction Publisher at Thomas Nelson, use the term. It sounded so intelligent and literary and biblical that I've … [Read more...]

Hey friends! We have a treat today! A wonderful guest post from Elizabeth Musser whose new book, The Long Highway Home, releases today! In addition, Elizabeth's hosting a fabulous celebration blog party TODAY (link to that below) that I'm betting you'll want to attend. Thanks, Elizabeth, for filling in while I'm away this week in London and Dublin! Lynn Austin, me, and Elizabeth Musser on our … [Read more...]