Last month I had major surgery on my shoulder. Unfortunately, it wasn’t just a frozen shoulder, as I previously thought. Shortly before my operation, I finished revising the final chapter [...]
Four days had passed since we’d seen each other, yet it seemed like a month. Then, I heard a child’s delighted cry—“Gigi!” My grandson ran into my arms, almost knocking [...]
Some stories won’t let you go. For me, one of those stories is the night Daniel Read Anthony received a gunshot to his neck—and lived. That single moment became the [...]
Some writers climb mountains for research. I seem to take a more… involuntary approach. When I wrote my first novel for children, it featured a dramatic tumble off a horse. [...]
Every January at our church, we receive a Star Word—a single quality to sit with all year, something to meditate on, resist, or grow into. Mine this year is intuition. [...]
