

Broken
I love a broken protagonist. That character who shouldn't be likeable, or who is profoundly damaged, yet you are cheering for them. My...


Sticking with you
I have a lengthy list of books I've read, a long list of books I've loved and remember, but I've been thinking about the books that...


Reframing
Everything feels a little off kilter right now. It's so easy for me to look at all the things that are harder or scarier...or what I'm...


Palm Sunday
It's Palm Sunday, the day when we remember Jesus' entry into Jerusalem. This morning I'm thinking about how the crowds were gathered...


Pause...
You can do it all, but not all of it all the time, right? So there was a little pause on the blog/writing/publishing because our family...


Life lately
As we say here in Minnesota, uff-da!! (But being the stoic Scandinavians and Germans, probably not with that much emphasis). Life has...


Just doing it
Sounds pretty similar to a certain company slogan, doesn't it? But here's the thing: as simplistic as Nike's slogan is, it's genius. As...


Feeling hot, hot, hot
Literally. It is so hot right now. And as I spent a good chunk of the afternoon with the fan trained directly on me, I started...


Back in the saddle
This little fellow decided to make an appearance four weeks early. Which meant my plan to have some blog posts ready and scheduled for my...


The beauty of the mundane
I'm a romance writer, so today I'm going to talk romance and love stories... There's an awkward moment about 99% of the time when someone...