Enter to win a copy of Taste Your Words!a Rafflecopter giveaway 2020 is Just a Chapter of Our Stories. But with perseverance, we can lean into what God has for us in this season and not survive–but thrive. Today our guest Bonnie Clark shares how God is moving in her through the challenges of this… [Continue Reading]
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How to Write a Novel
I get asked how to write a novel at least once a week (it seems). First, because readers are curious as to how a story that is fresh and exciting and filled with true-to-life characters comes out of an author’s mind. Second, because they have an inkling to do it themselves. How to Write a… [Continue Reading]
Fun School! Help Your Kids Learn At Home This Summer with Free Resources
Did you know you can Help Your Kids Learn At Home This Summer with free resources to make schooling fun? It’s not summer school–it’s Fun School! Help Your Kids Learn At Home This Summer There are few things kids look forward to more than summer break. Yet, things are different this year. Most… [Continue Reading]
My Stay Home Journals Help Kids Focus on Good Things
Stay Home Journals help kids focus on good things. During this time, kids need a place to think, write, or draw what is going on in their hearts and minds. Writing helps kids process emotions. Writing moves thoughts from a kids’ emotional brain to his thinking brain, allowing him to process all that’s going on…. [Continue Reading]
Join the #FamilyEasterOpenHouse
Join the #FamilyEasterOpenHouse You’re Invited! Easter is one of my favorite times of the year. I love celebrating Jesus and His resurrected life. I appreciate how—symbolic of Jesus’ rebirth—the whole earth breaks forth in life, budding fresh and new from a frozen world stripped bare. Since most of us will not be… [Continue Reading]
Helps for the Whole Family During Quarantine and Beyond
Hello friend! I was thinking of you and wanted to share these helps for the whole family that can get us through quarantine and beyond. It’s a time of unrest. Schedules have been changed. Many people are not able to go to their workplaces. Children are home from school, and even for homeschoolers, normal activities… [Continue Reading]
Let Me Help You Write A Novel
Do you have a passion for writing? Have you tried developing a regular writing practice, but had trouble making it stick? Do you dream of someday writing a book, creating additional income writing blogs and articles, or just want to establish a new creative outlet? Let me help you write a novel! You’re in… [Continue Reading]
Finding Hope After Suicide {With Kristen Jane Anderson}
Life, In Spite of Me, is a story about finding hope after suicide. Kristen Anderson came from a normal home, with a normal family, and yet, she found herself contemplating suicide. Her story gives us hope that there is life after an attempted suicide and helps by shining a light on the struggles that… [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]
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! Today I want to share five things I learned from writing Moms’ Night… [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]