My Journal

The runners-up of the Create Romance Short Story Content were featured in the September/October edition of Family Fiction Magazine.  "The Day MacBeth Escaped" was one of the runner-up entries.  Read the interview about the story's origin here on page 18.

Open HandsEager, anxious, untested hands,these were mine that day in May.Hardly believing you were finally here,giddy with excitement, trembling lest harm come to you,Determined to protect you at any cost. I held you in my hands and closed them...

I'm sitting at my laptop in the spare room (oh, that sounds "Narnia-ish") which is a combination office, bedroom, practice room and storage space containing items my daughter is collecting for her first year at college. It's a nice room, although there is no bed...

 One of the saddest things about sin is that it robs you of a sense of delight in life. Oh, there are pleasures in sin but they are the violent, fleeting kind, not the lasting fulfillment of real joy. Sin tickles the imagination but doesn't deliver the...

I do try to avoid posting rants, but I'm wondering if anybody else is over the "patriotic" pictures some celebs are making available to the public. It is their right as Americans, I suppose, but wearing the red, white and blue as a bikini seems to me a suspect way to...

It is said that a picture is worth a thousand words; this one captures 18 years of my life.

A continuation of my musings on Lent . . . . Tomorrow is Good Friday. I told my children this morning that it wouldn't surprise me if a large percentage of Americans didn't even know why it is called that. "Oh Good Friday?  It's a day off work before Easter,...

The Supreme Court heard two days of argument. The Justices are considering. Proponents want to see "restrictions" removed so no one is excluded, claiming they are entitled to equal benefits.  Rush Limbaugh says that it will eventually be legal nationwide....

I haven’t made up my mind about Lent. There are strong feelings about this season – from those who observe and from those who don’t. I see good points on both sides. But today, I’m looking at the “not” side.My strongest objection would not be to the theme of...

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