Rest and ReSet
The New Year arrives devoid of December’s color, clutter, and chaos. The holidays are over. Life is quieter. Muted. Barren. What is to come? That split second between December 31 and January 1 was merely a change in year, marked only by a new number. And yet, what is...
Somebody Loves You, <Your name here>
We can show our love by loving with another person’s love language.
Over the Rainbow
“When you get a puppy, nobody tells you about that day,” my daughter said, petting her beloved English Shepherd, as we reminisced about the dog that had “raised” my girls. Almost sixteen years before, our tri-color puppy flew from Arkansas to our farm in Virginia....
Outtakes
When a friend dedicated his one-minute #sorrynotsorry outtake reel to me, I considered it the highest honor, because Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest subscribers rarely show their fails. Instead social media enthusiasts present a filtered version of life. The best...
10+ Tips for Growing your Online Platform from NYT Best Selling Authors
Growing an online platform presents a challenge for most authors who prefer writing books to self-promoting and following social media. And yet publishers count on an author's platform for marketing. How do authors balance this responsibility when, as award-winning...
Bummer Lamb
One Saturday before Easter, my husband heard baby lambs mewing in the corner of our barn. Their first-time mother accepted one but not the other twin. Perhaps it was because the second appeared premature, its eyes unopened, its mouth too weak to suckle. He was a...