Happy Labor Day! I guess for someone who works at home at a dream job I’m not the typical benefactor of this holiday. But in honor of this day off, I’m going to share some thoughts about Labor Day and how I came to have such thoughts in the first place. I’ve been spending my […]

As I mentioned earlier in the week, I was down with the flu . . . which turned into a cold . . . which still makes me want to sit on the couch or go back to bed instead of doing much else. All that to say, I’ve had a head full of other […]

  Good Monday morning! I’m adding that exclamation point to exhibit a lot more energy than I have today. Yesterday afternoon I came down with the flu. Even after 12 hours in bed, I woke exhausted—but functional. Just don’t ask me to fly up the stairs, chase the dog, or think fast (which, even on […]

This past week I happened to see a rather ugly news report about a bunch of sports fans who got into a fight while watching a game. (I turned the television off before hearing the details, so I don’t even know where it was, who was playing, or even which sport.) But as I reached […]

This summer, my family and I went on a real vacation. It wasn’t a research-trip-disguised-as-a-vacation, although my youngest son did ask me if we’d come to the Poconos because I was setting a book there. What a skeptical child, to think his mother cannot take a real vacation. When I’d told my daughter and her […]

This week’s New Fiction offering may surprise some of my readers, but honestly this book just looks fascinating to me. Okay, so Amish vampires aren’t your normal pick from an Inspirational author. But recently I was in on a discussion about what makes Christian fiction Christian. Must it contain an overt invitation to accept Christ […]