In Bridge to Haven, Joshua and Abra carry on a Korean war-time correspondence. We cut some of the letters from the manuscript, but they may be posted on the Facebook page after the book is released. Letters were a way to keep the story moving forward and having time pass more quickly. Letters also showed …
Sometimes we don’t recognize the mentors we’ve had until we grow up and look back over our lives. At the time, they may have been someone we saw on a regular basis because of school or church schedules, odd jobs around the neighborhood, going to piano lessons. The main character of Bridge to Haven, Abra, …
One of the scenes in the new novel is in a photo studio when agent, Franklin Moss, arranges for publicity shots for “Lena Scott” (Abra). She feels shy in the beginning, but after a few glasses of champagne quickly gets into the swing of being a model and playing to the camera. She will find …
It seems most high school students have a favorite place to hang out. In Bridge to Haven, Abra and her friends cross the street to Eddie’s, a hamburger joint run by a proprietor who has a soft spot for troubled teens, hiring and rehabilitating them before they end up in the pen. We had a …
Over the past months, I have posted several times on sex trafficking. Rick and I support Crossing the Jordan, a local ministry that is on the front lines. Recently, my daughter, grand-daughter and I attended a rally put on by the Sonoma County Task Force Against Sex Trafficking. Our city and county have become increasingly …
The tabloids are always full of Hollywood love stories, often involving adultery, broken hearts, aberrant practices that the rest of the population is told not only to “tolerate”, but embrace. The Hollywood power couples usually fall apart in a life of constant perusal, flash bulbs popping and what-happened-to-the-happily-ever-after predictions. I don’t read the tabloids, but …
When I was a girl growing up in the fifties and early sixties in a small farm town in Northern California, Hollywood seemed like the most glamorous place in the world. Once in a while, I’d buy a movie magazine, especially if I spotted a favorite television or movie star. I had a crush on …
“We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things.”
Every story I’ve written has begun with a question or issue with which I’m wrestling. I have particular struggles in my faith walk that seem to come up over and over again. It is easier for me to trust the Lord with my life than it is to trust Him with the lives of those …
“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”