Hi Reader ~ May always feels like the month the world finally exhales, doesn’t it? It’s one of my favorite months of the year! I am busy getting everything in the garden planted before summer, and I find myself out there at odd hours, just watching things grow and change. There’s a quiet magic to it that never gets old. And speaking of things that have been quietly growing — I have exciting news! Not In Time, the fourth book in The Visible and The Invisible series, is now available on my...
20 days ago • 2 min read
Read And Listen Online Mother’s Day is a day that everyone can celebrate because everyone has had a mother. But it could be so much more than flowers, brunch, and cards. It could be the day we pause and honestly ask: How well am I mothering the people, places, and ideas in my life? Because here is the quiet truth most of us forget: every one of us is a mother. Yes, everyone. Mothering does not belong to a gender, an age, or even just to living things. Mothering is a quality of consciousness....
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Read And Listen Online You’ve seen them everywhere. Storage units. Places to store our stuff — the stuff we aren’t using, the stuff we’re afraid to throw away, the stuff we have no idea what to do with, so we keep it. We pay for it to sit there. Perhaps never to be seen again. But here’s what haunts me: Life Storage isn’t just a place for furniture and forgotten boxes. It’s also where we store our dreams. Where we quietly tuck away the life we think we aren’t worthy of having. The life we...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader ~ April has a way of sneaking up on you, doesn't it? One morning, everything is bare and grey, and the next, you look out the window, and there's color everywhere. My garden is doing exactly that right now—and honestly, it's been the best kind of distraction from writing. Speaking of writing, I am almost done with the fourth book in The Visible and The Invisible series, Not In Time. I just finished recording the audio of the book, and perhaps I’ll have it read in time for next...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Read And Listen Online Sometimes loved ones leave. Sometimes they leave by choice, either ours or theirs. Sometimes they leave when it is time for them to leave. Sometimes they leave a relationship with us. That means it is possible to see them again. Sometimes they leave by dying, and we miss their physical presence. Choice or time, physical or not, all forms of leaving have a few things in common. One Truth underlies it all. Although loved ones may leave, Love does not. We are never alone,...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
Read And Listen Online I could barely see her tail sticking up through the leaves. The rest of the cardinal was hidden deep in the burning bush outside our bedroom window, sitting patiently on her nest, waiting for her babies to hatch. Every morning before sunrise, her song pulled me out of my office to investigate. That’s how I found her. Beautiful as her surroundings. We’ve watched cardinal families before. The day the fledglings leave the nest is something else entirely: clumsy little hops...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Read And Listen Online Ten years ago, we went away for a month. We had a few things in mind—get away from the cold, live somewhere beautiful and quiet, visit the west coast part of our family, and celebrate our granddaughter’s sixteenth birthday. But our deepest intent was beyond any of those. We wanted to discover what we really like, want, and feel. Not what habit tells us we like. Not what routine has convinced us we want. Not what busyness has buried so deep we’ve forgotten how to feel it...
2 months ago • 6 min read
Hi Reader What a month this has been! I’m so excited to share not just one, but two new books with you. Pour yourself something warm and let me tell you about them. First: The Calling What if you woke up one day and discovered you could slip inside someone else’s experience — feel what they feel, see what they see — and that this strange, frightening gift was actually meant to save lives? That’s Alice’s story. She’s not sure she asked for this ability, and she’s definitely not sure she can...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Read Online On chasing possibilities then and now.... On September 8, 1966, I bundled up my one-year-old son, drove over to my parents’ house, and tucked him into my old bedroom to sleep. Then I joined my parents in the living room, where my dad — a Penn State professor who taught Historical Utopias, Mark Twain, and Science Fiction — had asked me to come watch something with him. Our house had always been filled to overflowing with books, and I had read almost all of them before leaving home...
2 months ago • 5 min read
