God at Work

It began with the Orlando weather forecaster’s ominous hurricane warning.  “Prepare for the storm of the century! Never before have winds been potentially so catastrophic!” My husband Peter and I flew into a tizzy of activity. We bagged up debris and piled...

Yes, it's true! I am "whacking my way through the publisher's jungle" again, this time with a book about discovering the exciting adventure God intends each one of us to have. The most challenging part has been figuring out how to organize stories I wrote over the...

When I saw the sign, I was ready to turn back. Grizzly bear? There’s a grizzly bear in the area? Maybe I could just look at photos of Avalanche Lake and skip this four-mile hike in Glacier National Park. Armed with pepper gel spray, we decided to go forward. “Noise!...

I was humbled last week that my poem won Honorable Mention in the Tapestry national writing competition! "Cocoon Breaker" captures an illuminating discovery about myself several years ago, as I bumped along the twists and turns of a small city in Thailand. This...

I was honored to be asked to read a story from my book, Tire Tracks, at the Kingdom Creatives event this past week. It's an annual event organized by Word Weavers which has performances as well as the presentation of the Tapestry Awards. This is the first time I have...

When Tire Tracks was barely a few pages long, Peter and I watched the movie I Can Only Imagine. In one scene, Bart meets Amy Grant. She is thrilled to hear that her songs were the main thing that helped him survive during his difficult teen years of abuse.  I was...