2020 will most likely become a watershed year for this generation, just as 1963 was a watershed year for my generation. I remember...

I was up before the rooster today in order to pick up my Walmart curbside grocery order. Somehow, I keep getting the earliest time slot....

In the book, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, by C. S. Lewis, the children, while in Narnia, remember their life in the real world...

The past month has been both overwhelmingly awesome and exhausting. Writing has always been a part of my life, but I have never had the...

All this talk about our Depression era parents and grandparents is jogging my memory. My thrifty grandmother could never stand to see...

I have this thing about plastic Walmart bags, Dollar General bags, Dollar Tree bags. I just can't throw them away. It seems so wasteful....

I have written before about how thrifty my mother was, being raised in the Great Depression. She was nine the year the stock market...

I feel like Rapunzel sitting in her ivory tower looking down on the world below with longing. Of course, it's not quite the same. I am...

I've had a lot of epiphanies during this self-quarantine journey. I am rediscovering what is really important and what just doesn't...

The Faithful Remnant Malachi 3:16 Then those who feared the Lord talked with each other, and the Lord listened and heard. A scroll of...

Three weeks ago, I was still doing edits and wondering if my book would really be published. Life was rocking along as usual. Then...

My first book, The Counselor's Daughter, will be officially released tomorrow. It is for sale on Amazon. I don't have words to describe...

If you had told me two weeks ago that I would be sitting at the kitchen table all day making masks, I would have told you, "No way." ...

I was so excited today to open my email and see a message from my editor, Debbie Ropollo. She attached a copy of a book cover for my...

Unlike me, brunette, short and a little pudgy, my daughter is a tall, willowy blond with a great sense of fashion. She also happens to be...

My mother passed away seven years ago this past January. She spent most of her life preparing for an event like the COVID-19 crises. She...

When I retired last May, I started organizing my home office. I found folders and folders of writing I have done over the years, mostly...

Yes, we are sheltered in place at home. Our neighborhood is mostly folks over sixty. We have supplies and are staying home. I am so...