In 2003, I started keeping a book journal. In this small journal, I recorded every single book I read, including the page numbers and the date finished. My own paper-form of Goodreads! Sometimes it’s embarrassing to look at what I devoured as a romance-hungry teenager, but now I look back… Continue reading
All my life I’ve grown up hearing, “Happy Birthday baby Jesus!” around Christmas time from church members, family members, etc. I helped set up the nativity sets, arguing with my sister over who got to put baby Jesus in the manger. We’d read the Christmas story. I’d attend live nativities… Continue reading
In celebration of our 2-year anniversary on December 17th, I want to share the story of how my husband and I met. Everyone loves a good romance, right? This is a condensed shell version of our story, but to include all the more juicy details would just make this post… Continue reading
Last week, I shared 10 goals on my fiction bucket list with you, which I loved and can’t seem to stop adding to it. (To see my full fiction bucket list, visit my Pinterest page!) I thought it only fitting to share some goals from my life bucket list. As… Continue reading
I spend much of my time living vicariously through my own imagination. Being a fiction author means I spend half my life imagining things that can never happen, people who will never exist, and fantasy worlds that I can’t get to. It’s still exhilarating–it inspires me to step out and… Continue reading
I once volunteered to write up a portion of God’s story often referred to as The Good Samaritan for an evening Bible study. A theme of this Bible study was about making God’s story our story. After all, if we don’t understand God’s story, how can we understand our place in it? Writing… Continue reading
“I’m writing a book,” you say, and then immediately tense, inwardly cursing your loose tongue. You wish you could plug your ears against the inevitable question, but nothing can stop it… “Oh really? What’s it about?” The loaded question. The one that can’t be answered unless the asker is ready to… Continue reading
(This is the third post of my sea cook adventure. Click to read the first installment and the second installment.) How many times have you embarked on an adventure and, partway through thought, “What have I gotten myself into?” Every adventure has an upside and downside. Most of the time,… Continue reading
