My writing, my author interview about Refuge, and my life story video tell you who I am. To introduce myself I’m sharing my early introductory blogs. This is an encore blog from summer 2013. These life experiences are some of …
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Trials were used by God to shape me and to draw me to him. I need the Savior! As a writer, a whole storehouse of experiences were crafted into my life from which to compose stories. This is who I am. I’m …
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I’m a slow learner. I think I’m beginning to understand love. I finally grasp how to be married. Praise God for my husband’s tenacity! We’ve been married thirty-six years. When we first married, I thought the young passion we felt …
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Musing on 2 Peter & Jude, Part 1: This summer Peter and then Jude gripped me about the shoulders, pointed into the gaping black of the Abyss, and clutched my head tight so I had to stare in horror upon …
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Myths are traditional stories dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes. These shape worldviews, explain the natural world, and illustrate customs and ideals of societies. Today we find our myth in unproven scientific assumptions, urban legends, and false presuppositions. Fiction …
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Almost every person on the planet has felt the sting of favoritism shown toward someone else. Anyone with at least one sibling has felt real or imagined preference. We’ve all experienced it at work, at school, and in social interactions. …
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A group of wealthy Americans journeyed to India to determine where to sacrifice their money in charitable giving. It was their first visit to India, and they hoped to be housed and transported in comfort. They were seeking to support …
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“I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and to do good in one’s lifetime, moreover, that every man who eats and drinks sees good in all his labor—it is the gift of God” (Ecclesiastes 2:12-13 …
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This year I work under the pressure of a looming double-deadline for fiction and for bible studies. Each March-April, my pastor, my husband, and I plot the timetable for the coming school year, and I begin studying and writing the bible …
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“Turn us toward yourself, O God of Hosts, show us your face and we shall be saved” (Augustine). Prayers and mother musings drove me from my bed, producing all-too-familiar sleep patterns. When I became a mother, I discovered that motherhood …
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