The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures.  He leads me beside still waters.  Psalm 23:1-2 I am not a painter.  I may be a writer, dog trainer or sewer (seamstress?) but I am not a painter.  I had such success last weekend creating new room designs that I thought I… Read More

See! The winter is past;  the rains are over and gone.  Song of Solomon 2:11 Believe it or not, a good book does not always flow from a writer’s mind to paper like a gushing spring.  Sometimes, it is a barely visible trickle deep underground that has to be released with lots of digging and struggle.  On occasion, I wake… Read More

For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.  Ecclesiastes 3:1 I like being 60.  Thinking about how happy I am with this season of life, I realize that in many ways, I have returned to the things that used to give me joy before kids.    I used to have a large rose garden with… Read More

Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.  Exodus 6:8 If I had an agent, they would be fussing at me for allowing six weeks between journal posts.  Because I am my own agent, you can bet I know I should be fussing at myself.  But, unlike an agent at a desk in another city far away, I know how… Read More