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.
5 blogs that encourage me
From time to time we all need encouragement or a shot in the arm. We need a place we can stop for a few minutes, read a post that challenges, encourages or uplifts us, and maybe find a moment of truth and grace with our Heavenly Father. In a blogosphere that is so cluttered with everybody talking, here are a …
7 Verses that Remind Us to Rest
Ever run across something and think, “Thank You, God, for the reminder,”? That’s what I thought when I was scrolling through my creations and stumbled upon this one. Enough. It’s such a struggle for women. And I needed the reminder of the prayer I’d typed on there. That’s what I want to be: enough to accomplish His purpose. And sometimes …
Blinking Lights and a Cat
I’m out of town this week. And some stories are just too good not to share again. Sometimes we just need a smile, and I hope this gives you one today. Pets do the whackiest things. What’s the craziest thing your pet has done? Click To Tweet 2008 We’re on something like our 10th snowstorm this year. Sigh. I love …
How to Catch a Prince Review & more
In How to Catch a Prince, a series of secrets has kept Corina and Stephen apart while also binding them together. The future seems settled until the whisper “Love well” breathes across Corina’s heart. The tension pulls them together and thrusts them apart while the past forms a barrier that seems insurmountable.
The Story of Us
Today I’m at the Grove talking about the Story of Us. Chapter One: I was born into a family with parents who were passionately in love with Jesus. Just a few years before my Dad hadn’t known Jesus. Now he did…and he was committed. Chapter Five: I developed an understanding of who Jesus was and why I would want to follow Him. …