For a year we planned, prayed and prepared for the Breathe Christian Writers Conference. Last weekend, 130 people wandered the halls, making connections, sharing ideas, and encouraging each other. This conference feels like coming home. It’s one of the highlights of my year (like right up there with my birthday and Christmas!) I helped a […]
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Grace spilled on everything
[pinit] The day after the forgotten homework incident, I headed to my favorite coffee shop in town to get some serious work done. I had an interview for an article to conduct and a lot of writing to catch up on after two weeks of vacation. After my interviewee left the coffee shop, I refilled […]
The treasure underneath your feet
In an act of wild adventure, we spent the last 12 days of summer vacation in Southern California. The last 12 days as in we arrived home at 12:30 a.m. and the kids started school at 8 a.m. We squeezed all we could out of this summer. To be honest, we wouldn’t have intentionally tortured […]
Winners and a Weekend Blessing
Congratulations to Ann for winning the grand prize drawing in our half birthday week celebration. Thank you for all your participation. If you haven’t taken the short survey yet, you can still do so here. I am enjoying your responses, learning a lot, and getting a game plan for the fall. Have a wonderful weekend! […]
Half Birthday Week Grand Prize
Congratulations to Rachel W and Rachel H for winning the giveaways from Monday! It’s been so fun celebrating my half birthday and the half birthday of my book Isn’t it Time for a Coffee Break? with you this week, that I think I’ll do it again in six months! Oh wait, that would be my […]
Happy Half Birthday Week Celebration & Give away!
I just realized that July is half birthday month, not only for me, but also for my book! Six months ago this special little book, Isn’t it Time for a Coffee Break?, made its debut into the big-wide world. It’s a scary thing to spend months laboring over something, putting your heart and soul and […]