History, Real Life, and Faith
I grew up in a household with a mercurial, creative, option-loving parent. He meant well, but his word simply wasn’t good–at least in the plans he made for us. (His word was a bond in business and he paid dearly for his loyal ethics). That meant for me, things often felt out of control. I didn’t know what would happen…
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I’m seeking order, as usual. My colleague Wendy Lawton and I share a major belief. We both think if we can find an orderly system of management, our life will become simpler, more controllable and efficient. I’m not sure why Wendy is so convinced, but my past as a military wife bears some responsibility for my dream. Thirteen times we…
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What does a rumpled bed have to do with theology? While praying over the issues in friends’ lives recently, I wished I could take their lives, fling them out like bedsheets, and smooth them out again as when making a bed. If only they could start again at the beginning, instead of muddling through the current mess. I shook my…
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The amazing courage of pioneers
My mother’s Sicilian cousin died last Thursday, five days before the big celebration of his 90th birthday. When my cousin wrote to tell of the news he sadly noted, “this is the end of a connection to the past. Nino waved goodbye as our family left for America,” in 1931. That’s his grandson in the photo; Nino came to marriage,…
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Texas life and history provided the background for my first novella. If you haven’t heard about The Dogtrot Christmas novella as part of A Log Cabin Christmas Collection, you can read about it here. That collection went on to the New York Times bestseller’s list the week it released. But where did I get the story and how? I was…
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