Novelist and Narrative Non-fiction Author
Photo by Achraf Alan on Pexels.com I have a few close single friends looking for love but where do you find it? In our current digital world, online dating doesn’t always get you what you see with those who lie on their profiles. I know because I've tried it! Honesty is the basis of a... Continue Reading →
My husband Sean has been to a hundred and ten countries in his life, and I’ve been to fifty-five so far! And we’ve found ways to travel inexpensively! Here are links to seven ways to whittle down the costs for a fabulous vacation. From our decades of experience, here’s how to fly FREE to a... Continue Reading →
It’s Easter Monday and I feel a little sad because I can’t find a church service to go to on the day Jesus rose up out of the grave! Because if Jesus Christ died on good Friday, and was in the grave for three days, then he was resurrected and returned to heaven on a... Continue Reading →
When I was young I hated the government in the US. It sent boys over to Vietnam to die like little toy, green plastic soldiers. Then it moved on to Afganistan. Then to Syria and now to Ukraine. War relentlessly continues and big corporations profit from war's needed machinery. In this 21st Century things will... Continue Reading →
Once upon a time (LOL), there was a boy who wasn't right in the head and had convulsions, grinding his teeth and foaming at the mouth. From childhood, he kept falling into campfires and deep water trying to kill himself. His father thought he was possessed by an evil spirit and sought out a well-known... Continue Reading →
What does this guy have that most of us don’t? http://youtu.be/We3lYkgWEh0 He’s not privileged, he’s not wealthy, and he doesn’t even do great things. Why then does this video clip melt our hearts? It’s because this man responds from a different operating system. Oh, it’s not that it’s been filmed in Thailand, for it could have... Continue Reading →
Photo by Kira auf der Heide on Unsplash ♥ Why do we make such a big deal out of Christmas, and what does it all means? Do you know how to activate a personal powerful faith? Do you have to go to Church to be a Christian? Can you believe in New Age thinking and still follow Jesus?... Continue Reading →
I guess I give the impression of being prim and proper. Really? Ha! “If they only knew!” says my spouse Sean today, with a shake of his head. Now, when I meet people and share some of my experiences from living in the bush, off-grid about a hundred miles, they change their minds. Prim and... Continue Reading →
My young brother-in-law came up from his home in California for my husband's funeral. After picking him up at the airport, we drove through a small jack pine forest, and he asked, "How do you make those trees grow so tall and straight." A tourist from the flat wheat land in Alberta came to visit... Continue Reading →
Hi, my sisters! (And sensitive brothers!) I'm giving this ebook to you for free! Today and tomorrow - August 26 and 27th, 2022. It's my story in a ROMANCE NOVEL; a perfect first love, some strange travel adventures, in a quest for identity and purpose. And the book has received two Indie awards! If you're... Continue Reading →
Innocence Derailed explores the hurt and wonder of first love and the raw and real experiences of becoming a woman.
Innocence Derailed is being launched on Amazon this Saturday, June 11, 2022, with glowing early reviews! You can read them all on my new book page in the top menu. And it's already on Amazon as a paperback and ebook, so I hope you check it out there too! How does one find God? Or... Continue Reading →
Hi again! Have you ever been given a clear, strong word in your heart or maybe in your conscience? Strange words that just pop into your head but aren't your words? It happened to me! So I've been busy in this cool late Spring pounding away on my keyboard, formatting my soon-to-be-released first book in... Continue Reading →
I thought I knew the Easter story until I prayed and sobbed on the stone slab that Jesus' body once stretched out on. Until I read the black and white details in the first report of his resurrection... It was a woman – who first saw Jesus Christ alive after his crucifixion on the cross! Can... Continue Reading →
"When did it all start, her search for truth, for a faith she could use as a source of power? Kate’s mind skimmed back in time, the parts she endured, the parts she treasured, all so different, each block a space where she had grown spiritually. There was the first day, back in 1968 when... Continue Reading →
Do you ever feel like you don't really know how to love? After all my decades of living and learning, I still don't know how to love the right way. I blow it often. I think my communication and writing skills pretty good and my knowledge of spiritual matters are unique. I've even written a... Continue Reading →
"What has Christmas got to do with Petra?" you ask. The Three Wise Men who came from the East quite likely took this same caravan road in search of a unique child born to be a King! But these are tourists in the photo! I took this picture a few years ago when we visited Petra in Jordan. When... Continue Reading →
The man had an otherworldly appearance and he asked me, "Do you know what this Christmas season is really all about?" "Of course I do," I said because I had grown up attending a church. "Ah... but have you ever viewed the birth of God's son from heaven's point of view? "Well, no." "That event was... Continue Reading →
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Here's the big Christmas question! If young Mary was still a virgin, HOW did she get pregnant and give birth to Jesus Christ? I discovered logical reasons for how it occurred and I'm definitely in awe of her courage. Mary gives us one of the great examples of real faith... Continue Reading →
The Celestial Proposal/Chapter 2 "Who is the Jesus that Western religions venerate so much? What was he really? Most agree he was a man who existed in flesh and blood in and around Jerusalem at the beginning of the first century AD. He came to be known to humanity as Jesus Christ."1 I wondered about... Continue Reading →
