A great start to a new reading year! My husband put all my Christmas stocking money into an Amazon gift card, so I bought several newer releases for my Kindle, as well as some on sale that have been on my wish list! It's so …
Three Plays in Three Days
We aren’t usually this social. And while we love musicals and plays, we don’t usually attend the theatre this often. But everything came together as a perfect storm, and we found ourselves in the audience three times …
A Different First Draft
I’ve written many, many first drafts of novels, most of them “by the seat of my pants.” This means I have a story idea but don’t know exactly how it plays out until I write it. However, I have written a few (very few) first …
John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer
My husband often listens to Ferguson Sinclair podcasts. Dr. Sinclair is a Scottish theologian. Recently Jeff told me to listen to a short piece Dr. Sinclair did on John Wesley’s Covenant Prayer, which has been used at New …
My Most Anticipated Reads in 2025
Happy 2025! The beginning of a new year is always exciting to me. There are so many things to plan for and dream about. One of those things is reading! Shocker, right? Here are some books I’m …
December Reads
Yes, it’s a bit early but I’m at the beginning of several books and won’t get any of them finished until at least the 31st, so I thought I’d go ahead and post now. I assumed I’d had a slow reading month because I’ve been so …
Have you reached your 2024 reading goal?
Do you do the reading challenge on Goodreads? I confess I love picking the number of books I want to read for the coming year and then trying to reach that goal. Of course, I’ve been keeping spreadsheets for years …
One Day at a Time
Most of us live this fast-paced life of the 21st century with loads of information about our own lives and schedules running through our heads. And for many of us, this can keep us from sleeping. For my husband, it …
The Things We Do for Love
The old 1970s song “The Things We Do for Love” ran through my head often last week. And while it’s a song about romantic love, my context was the love of parents for children and grandparents for grandchildren. You …
November reads
It’s been a month of travel—including a long road trip that involved audiobooks! Therefore, we have many books to talk about, although, truth be told, half a dozen were shorter than a full-length book. Here we …