Upon infant earth, the Creator shapes a man and a woman, the beginning. Blissful love and innocence reign. But evil encroaches. Fallen is our story, the story of the beginning of humankind and how quickly we made the decision not …
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This encore blog was originally published on December 28, 2011. Here I talk about what happened after the sexual assault when I was thirteen. How did my tragedy affect me as I grew to be a woman? Introducing Melinda: Blog …
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God crafts us to become the people he created us to be. Every experience and life lesson is a tool in his hands. I’m bringing all the pieces of my story together, so my readers will be better acquainted with …
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As my second novel prepares to launch, I want you, my readers, to know me. Through your comments, I hope to come to know you. Therefore, I bring forward introductory blogs from the past. This blog first appeared in January 2012. …
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Who is this writer? A mix of life experiences, tragedies, happy memories, and crushing loss. I am an amalgam, a mixture. So are you. To reintroduce myself to my readers, I am reposting my introductory blog posts, the ones that …
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I write about sinking our roots into Christ, but I also have genealogical roots and the spreading branches of a family tree. Where were my roots sunk? The video of my life story (CLICK HERE) shows how my childhood, trials, loss, …
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This is an encore of my first blog, written on August 15, 2011. Then I was scurrying around trying to find a publisher or an agent. Now my second novel is in production for publication. Since that first blog many of …
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Romans 8:28 is really true. It isn’t simply a theological statement we utter then return to our handwringing and worrying. It is true. To the degree that we ACT as if we believe it, we can measure our faith. It …
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Part 2 of a Three-Part series on Chronic Illness A couple of years ago I was an overcommitted workaholic, and I was destroying myself emotionally with constant, condemnatory self-talk. Then I got really sick. Since contracting Epstein Barr two years …
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In 2008 I began writing fiction again. I had no intention of publishing my work independently, and Kickstarter‘s crowdfunding platform hadn’t even been founded. Then there were approximately one million books on Amazon. By the time my first novel Refuge published …
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