I have all kinds of reasons why I love the Christmas season, the most important of which is celebrating the birth of my Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. But one of the things I anticipate with great delight is the arrival of yearly newsy letters from relatives and friends who only write once a year. …
A friend asked me what my most memorable Christmas was. That’s easy. Rick and I were married on December 21, 1969. I’ve thought since then, what a terrible thing to do to my family – have a wedding so close to Christmas – but it was the only day we could get the church. Rick …
When I heard BSF had a new study on the book of Isaiah, I asked to be placed on the list. I graduated several years ago after having completed the seven available studies, but have missed attending the class. The course encourages daily study of specific passages and reliance on the Holy Spirit to teach, …
Rick and I had the pleasure of baby-sitting our youngest grandson for a day recently. He arrived at 8:30 a.m. and went home at 6:30 p.m. He was on the move almost every minute he spent with us. He loves climbing the bunk bed ladder and being lifted down. He loves opening and closing doors, …
Someone sent me a humorous list of reasons we “owe” our mothers. It made me laugh and cringe because I’ve been guilty of a few sayings that were under fire. When one of my three children threw a tantrum in a public place (which didn’t happen often), I would lean down and say, “Do you …
I didn’t go to the Fourth of July fireworks display this year. Tired, I stretched out on the downstairs sofa. It was almost ten o’clock before the distant pop of fireworks came. I went outside and stood in the cool night air watching the sparkling fire-flowers going off over the fairgrounds a mile away. Sometimes …
Rick and I recently returned from an amazing Princess cruise-and-land tour of Alaska. Fantastic! Before sailing away on the Diamond Princess, we had a day to ferry over to Victoria and see amazing Buschart Gardens. I hesitate to check it off my bucket list because I’d love to go back! Check off one more experience. …
The last section of Her Daughter’s Dream (before the epilogue) takes place in a house on the California coast. Rick’s parents lived on the hillside of Jenner-by-the-Sea over-looking the Russian River as it flowed into the Pacific Ocean. This is the house I describe in the story. Our family gathered in Jenner as often as …
There will be a book signing Saturday, October 23rd from 2-4pm at Family Christian Book Store in Santa Rosa, California. Hope to see you there!
Rick and I had a wonderful time in the south with friends from Tyndale as we visited book stores and met readers in Birmingham, Huntsville, Cleveland, Knoxville, Pigeon Forge, Asheville, and Spartanburg. It was our first time in Alabama and Tennessee and our second in the Carolinas — and we loved the southern people, hospitality, …