REPENTANCE & MLK, JR.
"It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad...
MAKING ROOM . . .
After my first YA-novel, Honeysuckle Holiday, was released I, with deep humility, slid it next to my favorite novel, To Kill a...
. . . A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS
In addition to the melodic list of favorite things that Maria sings about in The Sound of Music (which just happens to be one of my...
AHH, THE GIFTS OF THE SEASON!
As I watch the first snowflakes fall outside my window, I am gifted the first gift of the season. And it's a most treasured one. And...
WRITING & REMEMBERING
It's Thanksgiving. It's a chilly 35 degrees outside. It's sunny -- both in my heart and in this colorful Appalachian region. And, I'm...
"PETIT A PETIT, L'OISEAU FAIT SON NID."
"Little by little, the bird builds its nest." As a writer, I return to this French proverb so frequently that it is as familiar to me as...