Tomorrow my husband and I will celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary…by packing up our house. It may not seem like the most romantic way to spend the day, but in a way it is—because it’s all another part of our adventure together. It’s an adventure that has seen us move 10 times now (yes, I […]
A New Day
This photo was taken as a new day dawned over the prairie somewhere around the Texas-New Mexico border as we traveled home from Lubbock, Texas, where my husband and I had attended the funeral of my sister-in-law. We had made that same trip a couple of months earlier to see my brother and her. She […]
Tomorrow is National Parents’ Day
Did you know that every fourth Sunday in July is National Parents’ Day in the USA? Well, I didn’t either. I knew about Grandparents’ Day (the Sunday after Labor Day) and Children’s Day (second Sunday in June). Of course, we all know when Mother’s Day and Father’s Day are (yes, every day is Mother’s Day […]
Family Sagas — Real and Imagined (and a giveaway!)
Yesterday, I returned from a trip back home. I grew up, and raised my family in central Illinois. Even though hubby and I are happily (ecstatically) relocated to the beautiful Lowcountry of South Carolina, I can’t help thinking of “home” as the flat, fertile farmlands of Illinois. I escaped living there day-to-day, but, as they […]
Missing Ingredients!
Happy Saturday! Today we’re talking missing ingredients. :) I was making a blueberry pie the other night with fresh blueberries I picked from a friend’s house. I put it all together and worked on a puzzle while it was cooking. It smelled amazing and I was excited when I pulled it out of the […]
An Author’s To-Be-Read List
We all have them, those books that we are planning to be read…sometime. If you’re like me that list is never ending and always growing. As a reader, my To-Be-Read list contains books from favorite authors and new-to-me authors that come highly recommended (usually with multiple books in a series). As an author, my […]
A New Baby — and a New Book!
Talk about an eventful month. Since I posted in May, my life has changed dramatically! Two days before my last post was published – I went into labor with my third son a full 4 weeks before his due date! Due to some complications, he spent 9 days in the NICU for respiratory distress, an […]
Say What? What I Wish I’d Known As an Aspiring Author
Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to be a writer and tell my own stories. With the release of Someone Found, my third novel and fifth published book, earlier this month, I’ve been feeling very reflective. I am nowhere close to figuring things out. However, now that I’ve got several years of storytelling under […]
Five Years Deep and a Mile High (And #FreeBook)
I know it’s hyperbolic, but it does feel that way to me when it comes to the books I have yet to start or finish reading. Yes, my to-be-read pile is indeed five years (or more) deep and a mile (or more) high. For example, once upon a time I bought Book 1 by an […]
Day in the Life of a Stay-at-Home-Mom Writer
I love it when people ask me how I write as a stay-at-home mom to four kids. Especially since we homeschool. Usually, I laugh and say “I don’t know”, because some days that’s the absolute truth. I don’t know how I do it, I just do. I guess when you really want to do […]