The Inn at Ocean’s Ridge is Colleen Coble at her best. The story is richly layered around the theme of what makes us a family. Is it blood relationships? Is it love? Is it something else? Claire Dellamare arrives at Hotel Tourmaline ready to help her father close a merger with another company. But the moment she arrives, she has …
8 Truths When The Tension Between Callings Overwhelms
This last month I’ve missed events in my kids’ lives because a calling meant I couldn’t be in two places at the same time. Just the other night my husband and I were talking about the importance of not devaluing calling yet achieving balance in all areas. The next day I saw a post on Facebook from singer Meredith Andrews. In …
Riding the Waves of Teenage Emotions
Some days just don’t start well. One of the kids wakes up on the wrong side of the bed – and it’s so bad you wonder who replaced your sweet, fun-loving kid with this surly grouch. What really makes it bad is one bad mood spreads like the most effective virus…especially when the younger kids watch and decide it must …
Fiction Fridays: Dawn Crandall on the setting for Captive Imposter
Today I’m delighted to introduce you to my friend Dawn Crandall, the author of the amazing Everstone Chronicles. I have thoroughly enjoyed her series set during the Gilded Age on the East Coast particularly Maine. You can read my review of her latest novel The Captive Imposter here. Bottom line? It’s my favorite of hers so far! Wonder how authors pick …
4 Tricks for Living in the Moment
Yesterday morning, the KLOVE morning show was talking about the “this is your brain, this is drugs, this is your brain on drugs” commercial. Some of you remember that commercial quite vividly. Others have no idea what I’m talking about. Some days it feels like: this is my life, this is my life on steroids, this is my life on …
4 Tips to Finding Peace as a Perfectionist Loving Mama
From my earliest days, I knew I wanted to be a mom. I also knew I wanted to take Katie Couric’s spot on The Today Show – hasn’t happened. Wanted to take Sandra Day O’Connor’s spot on the Supreme Court – also seems highly unlikely. And wanted to be the youngest state senator in Nebraska history – my college friend …
Fiction Fridays: The Captive Imposter
The Captive Imposter is a sweeping love story set during the Gilded Age by my friend Dawn Crandall. The heroine is impersonating a lady’s companion for the heroine’s protection after her brother is killed in a prior book. When her lady decides to visit a hotel in the middle of the Maine woods, Elle is thrust into the middle of a hotel …
Saying Yes or No: Can I be Intentional
I’m in a season of questions. What does the future hold for me after the M.B.A. is finished? Where should I invest my time and energy in the next months and years? Where do I find my passion in this season of life? So many questions. And so much silence. It feels like I’m in a holding pattern with the …
An Unexpected Adventure
Life is an adventure. We can probably all agree on that. Sometimes it takes some unexpected twists and turns. I just got back from one of those. It was a good twist, but one I never expected to find myself taking. I spent all of last week in Brazil. When you ask me where I want to travel, what I …
From the Start: Sweet Romance with lots of Heart
I adored this story of two people who are both trapped by their past relationships and a future that is uncertain.