Before the Storm God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.  Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea,  though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.  Psalm 46:1-3 I’m a Florida girl.  Hurricanes don’t scare me.  Some of my… Read More

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” John 8:32   The book I am working on now will consist of three novellas.  Each story takes place on Terra Ceia in one of three identical houses and in three different decades.  The setting and some of the events of the time will be true, but… Read More

When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”  John 8:12 When I was a girl, there was a Gulf Oil Gas Station between our house and our church.  Because we were at church almost every day of… Read More

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins   1 Peter 4:8 When we bought the property that we have called home for over thirty years, it was flat treeless farm land. Before we even had house plans complete, we planted over a dozen more oaks and a small grove of pine trees around the… Read More

I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works;  my soul knows it very well.  Psalm 139:14 I have been thinking a lot about stereotypes.  As I begin writing a new book with six main characters, I want to avoid stereotyping them.  You know, good girl, bad guy, clingy delicate flower of a woman, busy,… Read More