Hey Friends,   A song caught my ear last year, Seph Schlueter’s Counting My Blessings. Do you know it?   You should.   It has a simple...

My ladies group at church is reading a book I do not like.   I won’t tell you the name of the book, but it’s a book of questions we...

Even before Halloween had come and gone, my local craft store was filled to the checkout stations with Christmas décor.   I had entered...

If you ask my husband whether I’m a worrier he’ll answer, “Yes!” In fact, he would probably say that if Olympic medals were awarded for...

Have you heard the term “Hallmark holiday”?   It refers to a holiday thought to exist for commercial purposes, rather than to commemorate...

As much as I love cooking at home, I also love going out to eat with my husband. More than a meal out, it’s a time for us to talk...

I don’t know how it happened, but when I was a kid, I became fascinated with guitar. More than anything, I wanted to learn to play. I...

It was one of those gloomy mid-December days when the clouds hang low in the sky and a chill settles into your bones. I sat on the floor...

My sweet husband and I just celebrated our 29th wedding anniversary. Of the many things I remember being excited about during that...

I’m married to a private eye, which comes in pretty handy with my mystery writing. Getting lost is my superpower. I’m serious. If we’re...

Psalm 121:2 My help comes from the Lord – the Lord who made heaven and earth. Several weeks ago, a dear friend of mine blogged about...

Some of my favorite memories from childhood are of celebrating Independence Day in my little Midwestern hometown, West Frankfort,...

... even though I lost my earthly father on that terrible day, I still had a Father, and oh boy, what a daddy He is.

Being a writer, I have a great imagination – and I’m particularly good at imagining all that might go wrong.

Plotting murder doesn’t come easily to me. When I started planning my first mystery novel Up in Smoke, I knew who the killer was, the method