My Journal

November is a special month in our family - two special girls were born in this beautiful season of the year. Last week, we celebrated significant milestones in their growth. Kaley, my youngest, reached the age of 10!Autumn, my second-born, turned 16!What...

 Did your child just go off to college?  I share what God is teaching me about decreasing in my motherhood role in my article for Today's Christian Woman available here.

Like all wives, I have the power to build up or destroy my husband.  I share what I learned about having “A Hammer in My Hands” in my @Today’s Christian Woman article published here.

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,...