I ducked inside the house that I knew was mine but wasn’t the right shape. Glowing eyes peered at me […]

Stay Outta the Chicken Pen
The chickens and guineas were unusually loud and perturbed. I walked to the end of the house to see what […]

Faceplant: The Day My Brain Lied to Me
Even though it had been over two decades since entering a softball field, I knew it would all come back […]

Lost Under the House
What’s That Sound? “Do you hear that?” “Hear what?” my husband asked. “It almost sounds like a cat. Like it’s […]

Where Would We Be Without Martin Luther?
Monday, October 31st, marked the 505th anniversary of Martin Luther nailing his 95 Theses to the door of the Catholic […]

10 Ways to Show Your Favorite Author Some Love
I returned home yesterday after five amazing days at the Florida Christian Writers Conference. Being surrounded by other people who […]

Raised by Clowns
I was raised by clowns. No, really. My parents regularly dressed in large, floppy costumes adorned with rainbow hair and […]

Sorting Through the Stuff
I couldn’t believe how different her yard looked. Granny loved plants and let them grow large, often taking over whole […]

Dreading the Snake
I’m passionate about mowing. And weed eating. It’s not the obsessive kind of passionate where everything has to be precise […]

Target on My Back
Our parents went out of town for the weekend when I was in elementary school and my aunt stayed the […]