In effort to break the routine of book reviews and other senseless ramblings of mine… I decided to “show” you all a bit more about who I am! Leave a comment with a fun fact about yourself! Something people might not expect about you… 🙂 More to come in the future: How did my husband and I meet? Hint: it has something to do with that first picture up there… What is my favorite memory from my rodeo queen years? Hint: think of roses… What about you? What is something I’d be surprised to know about you? (That you care to share online for the world to see…) 🙂
Becoming a Quitter
Part One (of many) I could probably blog about Jon Acuff’s book “Quitter: Closing the gap between your day job and your dream job” for a solid month. The basis of the book “Quitter” is finding a way to reach your day job, without sacrificing financial security or blindly diving into something that will leave you and your family ruined. Jon Acuff has the experience – he went through eight jobs in eight years and is now able to merge his dreams and day job. Don’t Quit…not yet The very first chapter is “Don’t Quit Your Day Job.” This jolted me a bit, as I was expecting the book “Quitter”...
You have to jump
“You need to jump off cliffs all the time, and build wings on the way down.” Anne Dillard This past weekend, I attended the Oregon Christian Writer’s One-Day Conference in Eugene, where best-selling author, James L. Rubart was the keynote speaker. He spoke a powerful message about going for your dreams by your ACTION. We must stop with the excuses and actually use the talents God has given us. Rubart’s best-selling first book, Rooms, was written in 20-minute increments a day. Who can’t make time to write 20 minutes a day? No more excuses. Write that novel. We all have fears holding us back, but it is jumping off the...
Book Review: Beyond All Measure
Book Description Unless she can trust God’s love to cast out her fears, Ada may lose the heart of a good man. Ada Wentworth, a young Bostonian, journeys to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee, in the years following the Civil War. Alone and nearly penniless following a broken engagement, Ada accepts a position as a lady’s companion to the elderly Lillian Willis, a pillar of the community and aunt to the local lumber mill owner, Wyatt Caldwell. Ada intends to use her millinery skills to establish a hat shop and secure her future. Haunted by unanswered questions from her life in Boston, Ada is most drawn to two townsfolks: Wyatt, a Texan...
Story Behind the Story: Karen Witemeyer
Have you ever wished there was an epilogue to Jesus’ parable of the Prodigal Son? I have. So often we focus on the wonderful homecoming the lost son received, but I wanted to know what life was like for him after the fatted calf was consumed and the party was over. How did he relate to his bitter older brother or the servants and townspeople who were only too aware of his past arrogance and wild living? I decided to explore these questions in a new setting—1880s Texas. First, I needed a prodigal. Enter my hero, Levi Grant. Raised by godly parents, he turns his back on his faith and...