Stories Change Hearts {A Visit to Auschwitz} I’ve always been drawn to stories, but few have changed my heart like the ones I heard several years ago. It began when we traveled to Poland to see Auschwitz-Birkenau. I’d read many books about Auschwitz and part of my novel Night Song took place there. But nothing… [Continue Reading]
Be a Voice for Change {In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.}
Be a Voice for Change We are facing an all-time high of strained race relations in our culture. Even with all that was accomplished by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. over sixty years ago, we are still fighting a disease of racism. Maybe, you know there is a problem, but you don’t know what to… [Continue Reading]
How to Bring Racial Reconciliation in 2020
How to Bring Racial Reconciliation As a white person growing up in California I had black friends, and I thought I understood black history, just from things I’d learned in school. Then, in 2010, my family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, I started a support group for inner-city teen moms, and we started attending a… [Continue Reading]
Twice Rescued Child ~ A Story of Hope
Twice Rescued Child Over six million Jews were systematically annihilated in the Holocaust. It’s a number that’s hard for us to wrap our minds around. Nearly eighty years after World War II, horror and sorrow grips our hearts. We’ve heard stories of families torn apart, mass graves, and ash from the chimneys that fell… [Continue Reading]
Living a Grateful Life
It’s hard to believe it’s been over two years since we started living a grateful life with The Grumble Free Year. We started August 2017 and that Thanksgiving Grandma broke her back. We went on the cruise August 2018, and (after writing about it all) The Grumble Free Year released November 2019. One of the… [Continue Reading]
Writer’s 2020 Resolutions
I’ve seen many amazing writers get stalled with their writing for a few reasons: 1. They don’t commit to butt-in-chair time. 2. They set unrealistic goals and then feel like a failure when they don’t meet them. 3. They try to do too many things, instead of focusing on the ONE THING they… [Continue Reading]
How to Recognize Faulty Decision Making
How to Recognize Faulty Decision Making It’s not my fault!” ranks in my Top 10 Most Frequently Used Phrases, and may well be #1. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not the kind of person who always has to be right. But heaven protect anyone who implies that I might be wrong. My favorite family… [Continue Reading]
12 Tips for a Grumble Free Holiday
12 Tips for a Grumble Free Holiday When the Christmas season comes around we can count on a few things: 1) lots of fun family time, and 2) lots of fun family time disrupted by kids’ bad behavior. Kids often misbehave A LOT during the holidays. Their schedules are messed up; they’re over-excited and over-stimulated…. [Continue Reading]
#WalkItOut Podcast 084: Rachel Swanson
I am so thankful that I dared to follow God. I dared to dream His dreams. I dared to take that time, whether it was during my kids’ nap time or waking up early on Saturday mornings instead of sleeping in, I am thankful that I followed this God-given dream. God led me on an… [Continue Reading]
5 Things I Learned from Writing Moms’ Night Out
5 Things I Learned from Writing Moms’ Night Out Do you have a dream that you don’t dwell on long because the idea of it coming true seems so unattainable? I’ve had a dream like that. It’s seeing one of my novels make it to the big screen, and that happened! Well, to clarify, I… [Continue Reading]
4 Things That Prevent Jesus’ Power
4 Things That Prevent Jesus’ Power In Your Life Today on the blog we welcome Erica Wiggenhorn, author of Unexplainable Jesus: Rediscovering the God You Thought You Knew. 4 Things That Prevent Jesus’ Power In Your Life- and a plan to get rid of them! It’s so easy to look at another person’s social… [Continue Reading]