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Good morning! Today is the Monday after a VERY full weekend. This is how I feel at the moment. There isn’t enough coffee in this house to make me feel more awake. Here’s what happened this weekend. 1. Julie Cantrell (New York Times Bestselling/Award… Continue Reading “Monday News”
Hey, Friends! If you’ve been hanging around my Facebook or Twitter the past few months, you’ll know that I’m involved in the Breathe Christian Writers Conference. I’m on the planning committee and this year I get to present a workshop called The Art of… Continue Reading “Breathing Options”
This weekend is the Breathe Christian Writers Conference in Grand Rapids. I help out with this conference and it is a highlight of my career. Between now and when the conference begins on Friday, I have a list of things to accomplish. Posts… Continue Reading “A week of deadlines.”
Each year my city holds a ginormous art festival/competition/exhibit called ArtPrize. Over 1,500 pieces of art fill various pockets of Grand Rapids in restaurants, museums, parks, bars, churches, etc. Folks come from all over the world to check out the art. I’m fortunate enough… Continue Reading “Making Do With What You’ve Got”
My husband is the king of spontaneous trips to Grand Haven, Michigan. When we were young and just married, we’d hop into his sweet Mazda RX7 and we’d speed away to catch the sunset over the lake. Then then kids came. And quickly. 3… Continue Reading “God’s Art”
My friends, I would love to tell what an honor it is to be included in a mass book signing with the likes of these ladies. I admire each of them greatly. I would even go so far as to say they’re my friends… Continue Reading “Authors and Books and Signing! OH MY!”
This is a view from my front porch. Facing west, we get to witness the most spectacular of sunsets. I’m a sunset loving girl, always have been, so this is possibly my favorite thing about our well placed house. Months ago, this view would… Continue Reading “Grateful for the view”
Before I aspired to be a writer, in fact before I even knew how to write, I wanted to be a singer. I sang all the time. When I woke up? Singing. Riding in the way back of our family station wagon (faced backwards,… Continue Reading “In Good Voice”
This summer my family took a trip to a zoo in Ohio. About the first thing we did was visit the petting pen. The goats watched us with their strange, rectangular eyes. The kids patted them, brushed them, dodged their little…ahem…piles. I happen to… Continue Reading “Careful, Animals May Bite”
As a novelist I spend a good deal of my time thinking about the lives of fictional characters. It can be tempting to let my life become absorbed in stories that are not mine. I have to be intentional about living my own story. … Continue Reading “Living the Story — Band in a Cargo Van”
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