I've always loved prom, everyone all dressed up, excited for an evening of food and fun, dancing and laughter. We had the last one on Saturday night. Of course it isn't quite the level of frenzy when it's your son instead of …
Ready To Have My Brain Back
One thing I've learned as my children have gone off to college: with each one that leaves home, I get a piece of my brain back. It's true. Suddenly all the day-to-day details that I keep in my head are gone, for I don't see …
Quiet by Susan Cain
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking. The title alone intrigued me, since I do know this about myself: I am an introvert. For over a year it sat on my book wish list, until last week I finally …
Exercising Faith
With all that is on my plate these days, there is a tendency to leave off or shorten time spent in quiet communication with God. But this quote reminds me that giving God my time in prayer is of itself an act the exercises …
Galleys and Edits and Speeches, Oh My!
The next three weeks will require lots of stamina and lots of faith! I have my galleys--the printed pages with line edit notes--for A Home for My Heart, which releases in September. They have to be read, revised and in the …
More Than I Ever Imagined
Once upon a time there was a little girl loved books. She read all the time, eventually longing to write books herself. She continued to read and scribble away all the years she was in school. She married, had children, …
A Race to the Finish
This past weekend--Easter weekend--was truly the start of our race to the finish. And no, I'm not taking about graduation. I'm talking finish, moving the last child into his dorm room in August. Because between now and then, …
I Love NCAA March Madness!
I didn't grow up watching much basketball. In our family, we were all about football and baseball. I tried to play basketball in middle school, but to be honest, the game bewildered me. Too much going on at too fast of a …
Blog Reading and To Do List Switches
I am generally a creature of habit, especially when I find a product that works for me. In fact, once I find a product that fits my lifestyle or thought processes, my biggest frustration is having to replace it and not being …
The Spring Training Trip
My husband has talked about this trip since I met him. He'd been to spring training in Florida once as a teenager, with his dad, but it just never worked out to take our kids. So many other plans interfered during spring …