There is barely a moment in each day that I am not listening to music. When I write it's instrumental Christian songs. In my office I stream Ellie Holcomb or if I'm in an artsy mood, Norah Jones. In my car it's the local Christian radio stat ...
Finding Community
I have a circle of women to "do" life with. We have trudged through the ups and downs of motherhood, milestones, joys, and losses. We are call-in-the-middle-of-the-night, get-the-same-tattoo kinda gals. (Yes, there are 6 of us with a ...
A Gift of Story
Photo credit to Cindee Snider Re “Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their tru ...
So God Made a Teacher
Paul Harvey gave the world a great gift when he made his "So God Made a Farmer" speech at the Future Farmer's of America Convention in 1978. In 2013, his words became a Superbowl Commercial for Dodge. It touched my Midwestern-raised he ...