When You Just Want Life to Feel Good Again
There was a time when I wondered if my life would ever be good again. So much had changed so fast, my psyche struggled to adjust. There were nights when I lay on my bed in the dark in so much pain I couldn’t …
When You Don’t Know What To Do
In the first half of 2020, I faced the hardest and most important decision of my life. It was completely unexpected and would affect not only the rest of my life, but the rest of my children’s lives and the lives of …
Book Recommendation For Those Who Are Hurting
This is a great book on grieving. I’m reading it a little late in my journey, but that’s okay because it’s allowed me to see how faithful God has been to me the last three years as I grieved the loss of my marriage. Looking back, I see …
When It Seems Life Will Never Feel Normal Again
Ever since my children were little, I’ve kept journals. I’ve never had a set time or way of writing in them, I just used them to jot down things I wanted to remember. They’re full of stories about …
When You Miss What Used To Be
I know what it’s like to long for the past. To look back at the way things were before the unexpected happened and miss what was but is no more. For me, it’s that time in my life when …
When the Unimaginable Happens
Have you watched that old Jim Carrey movie The Truman Show? Remember how at the end of the movie Truman realizes he’s spent his entire life believing a false perception of reality? As the world around him literally falls apart …
How I Found Hope When Life Fell Apart
Three years ago today I got a message from a stranger that yanked the earth from beneath my feet. It’s the first and only time in my life that I literally felt the blood drain from …
The Time I Joked With God and He Answered
Early in life, I was taught that God listens when we pray. I’m profoundly thankful for that truth. Without the privilege of pouring my heart out to Him, I don’t believe I would’ve survived the trauma of …
I Don’t Know What I’m Doing
If you’ve read my previous posts, you know I’ve dreamed about becoming a published author since I was a teenager. For years, I’ve worked on various stories, fantasizing about what it would be like to …
What I Did on My Summer Vacation
It’s been a whirlwind of a summer.
Fun—because I signed a publishing contract at the end of May, fulfilling a dream I’ve had since I was a teenager.
But overwhelming, too—because apparently…
How I Unintentionally Became an Author of Christian Fiction…I Think??
I didn’t set out to write Christian fiction. And honestly, I’m still not a hundred percent sure that’s what I’ve written. I haven’t read much Christian fiction, and the few books I have read in that genre…
How The Spring in Trulee Holler Came to Be
I began dreaming about becoming a published author after reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton when I was in the tenth grade. Hinton was only fifteen when she wrote the novel, and the idea that someone my age…