Read Online What do we do with our time? We fill it with emotion—worry, fear, regret, shame. We reach for the phone, lose ourselves in screens of every size. We manufacture new things to do, just to stay busy, just to avoid the silence. And somewhere in all of that motion, we lose ourselves entirely. But why? Why are we doing any of it? Is it an obligation, a choice, or simply a habit we’ve never thought to question? We cannot possibly be here — in this extraordinary, fleeting, once-given...
13 days ago • 4 min read
Read Online or Listen Here Sometimes, to figure out what we want to say yes to, we have to learn to say no first. We can all look back on our lives and remember times when we wish we had made different choices. When perhaps we should have said no instead of yes, or yes instead of no. After a chain of events that happened because of one spectacularly bad choice—when I said yes when I should have said no (in my defense, I thought I was making the right choice at the time)—I found myself sitting...
20 days ago • 4 min read
Read Online or Listen Here Did you ever notice that the word “help” is only one letter away from “hell”? Remove an L, add a P. Sometimes the greatest help we can give ourselves is recognizing when we’ve created our own small hells—those rigid routines we’ve convinced ourselves are necessary, the shoulds that box us in. One gift of working for myself has been learning something embarrassingly simple: I get to decide where I do my work. This revelation took me years to fully embrace. Some...
27 days ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader It’s official— The Rising is now LIVE on Amazon (And everywhere else you buy books!) 🎉 If you’ve been waiting to return to Lazy Rivers, this is the book where: The town is still rebuilding after everything it’s been through, The women are trying to choose love and normal again (as if Lazy Rivers ever allows normal), And a dangerous truth arrives at the door—one that could change everything. The Rising (Rivers of Time Book 3) is for readers who love heartfelt small-town fiction with...
30 days ago • 1 min read
Read Online or Listen Here There’s a truth I’ve been circling around for years, one that I understood intellectually, but now I know it’s true: I cannot fully see what I’m looking at. Neither can you. None of us can. ✔️ We all carry perception bias—intentional or not—into everything we encounter. It’s simply how we’re wired. I’ve spent decades exploring this reality, examining how perception shapes our experience. But it wasn’t until I immersed myself in writing that I truly understood how...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader It’s time. ❤️🥳 The Rising is available TODAY in my Shopify store! If you loved Book 2—how the town finally cracked open the truth, how the women stopped running, how hope edged back in—then you’re going to feel this one in your heart. Because in The Rising, the town of Lazy Rivers tries to move forward. But the river has stirred up more than mud and debris. A stranger arrives. A claim is made. And the kind of secret everyone thought was settled? Isn't. What you’ll get in this book:...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Read Online or Listen Here After watching the Netflix series on Queen Elizabeth, my admiration for her grew tremendously. Like many Americans, I’d barely registered her existence beyond a vague awareness that somewhere across the ocean, there was a queen. I’d wondered how old she was, maybe thought the phrase “it’s good to be a queen” was actually true. Now I know it’s not. A Life Chosen For You The life of being a queen wasn’t one Elizabeth chose. She was born to it. Imagine a life...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
Hi Reader Yes, the next book in The Rivers of Time series is almost here! While teaching classes and writing short stories, I also finished writing and recording The Rising, and I can't wait for you to read it (or listen to it)! We left the women in Book 2 standing in the doorway of something they’d waited years for: A truth finally exposed. A boy is finally home. A family finally whole enough to breathe again. And for a minute—just a minute—it felt like the town could settle. But in Lazy...
about 1 month ago • 1 min read
Read Online Here Last week, the weather turned warm—for January in Ohio, anyway. The eight inches of snow that had blanketed the ground melted away, and we seized the moment. We cleaned up the yard, scrubbed the bird baths, and picked up fallen tree limbs. A lovely spring-like gift in the middle of winter. Of course, there are still months ahead where snow will accumulate, and I’ll bundle up in layers to stay warm. But what matters most is what we discovered under all that snow. Green and...
about 2 months ago • 3 min read
