MAI – Media Associates International MAI – Media Associates International – is an organization my hubby and I have supported for well over twenty years. Its president, John Maust, is a dear friend, who teaches and “shepherds” aspiring international authors. His heart is to travel the globe to train writers everywhere to publish Christian literature in their own countries. We’ve all …
Two Reasons A Good Life May Be Snuffed Out Early
I’m gonna start out a little morbid today but stay with me…we’ll have a hopeful ending. I want to tell you about a few dark weeks back in 1997. On Sunday, August 31, my girls (ages 12 and 10) and I were driving to church—only 5 minutes away—I happened to turn on the radio and we heard that Princess Diana died in a car …
The Difference Between Forgiveness and Consequences
Picture a beautiful sunny day in the Caribbean. My hubby and I had saved our pennies for a family cruise on our older daughter’s senior-year spring break. On this day we’d chosen an excursion on inner-tube motor boats. Dad got one daughter. I got the other. The guide instructed us on how to accelerate, how to steer, and off we went—about 15 of these cumbersome, floating, …
God’s Big Plan
When was the last time you witnessed a child having a full-blown meltdown in public; complete with head-pounding, ear-piercing, chest rattling shrieking, kicking, and crying their demands? I used to judge. I used to think that mother or father a terrible parent. Until I had children—and now grandchildren. Can I just say, Thank the Lord for Facebook and Instagram! These completely unrealistic snapshots of our lives at least balance …
The Problem with Pantzing and Plotting
Defining the Terms Bear with me a moment while I sound like an author. Notice I said sound like and author because, even after completing my ninth book (yes, the Psalm 137 novella is done!), it’s hard to think of myself as an author. Pantzing I AM NOT referring to the junior high practice of pulling down your friend’s gym shorts. I AM …
August Novella News!
I’ve given hints and little tidbits about my next release, By the Waters of Babylon (BTWOB), but it’s finally time to share with my newsletter faithful a little more detail about this EXCITING story! The novella uses Psalm 137 as its foundation for the story, pulling supplemental plot from passages in 2 Kings 24-25, 2 Chronicles 36, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, and Proverbs. I …