Travel months are usually good reading months for me. Not this time! Between a jam-packed, eleven-day Europe trip and a ten-day trip to visit family, my reading time significantly diminished! (Although plane rides …
Jane Mateer
A couple of years after Jeff and I were married, Jeff’s dad, long divorced, befriended a widow. They were both in their early 40s. They started hanging out together. Then dating. A few days after our daughter’s first …
France & Scotland
If you get my newsletter, you saw teasers about our trip. Now here’s the full story! Back in March, we were talking with our friends the DeMuths about the possibility of going to visit a ministry in southern France. They …
The Beginning
Beginnings are my nemesis. The beginning of the day. Of a new season of life. The first attempt at a new skill. The first meeting with a new person. The first chapter of a …
April Reads
Whew! Definitely a front-loaded month—several books I was almost finished with at the end of March that bled over a couple of days in April. And a trip. That always boosts my reading because I have a hard time writing on a …
My Novelette’s New Cover
Many of you have downloaded and read my novelette, The Work of His Hands. When I wrote it and was ready to give it to you, I didn’t want to pay a cover designer. I tried to do it myself with a combo of AI and Canva. The …
A Savannah Surprise
In 2012, my husband took me on my first trip to Savannah. It was a place he knew I longed to visit, my imagination captured by the city that plays a crucial role in so many of Eugenia Price’s (my favorite author) books. It …
Reviews or Ratings?
We have so many ways these days to find and assess which books make it into our hands and in front of our eyes and minds. In the days of yore (i.e. my teen and twenties—and even into my thirties!), I had nothing but a book …
March’s Miracles
It's April now, but I would be remiss not to recount all the little miracles God did on our behalf in March. As you know, my father, who is 88, underwent a quad bypass and a valve replacement on March 16. He also ended up …
March Reads
It’s been an odd reading month in terms of time to read, but a good one in terms of books read! I started this month with tons of reading time, and thought I’d have time to read while sitting at the hospital. That …