There’s one thing about being on the road that I love more than anything: it’s meeting new people and spending time with old friends. During my short stay in Ohio, it was lovely to catch up with my dear friends, Kathy Millburn, Juanita Cook, and Kathleen Popp. We’ve been friends for several years, thanks to […]
In November 2014, I published my first book with Waterfall Press (an imprint of Brilliance Publishing). Unlike my other standalone Amish fiction books, this novel was not a typical boy-meets-girl romance that is so often found in Amish fiction. When I wrote this book, I had no idea of how the readers would respond. In […]
Over the weekend, I published a photo on my Facebook page: The caption read: Describe this photo in three words or less…GO! What was intended as a nice way of sharing among people who read my books and share a passion for the quiet, restrained life of the Amish turned into a firestorm of negativity […]
I’m sitting in my front room, the fire dying out in the fireplace behind me, and I’m participating in a workshop about “Learning to Fully Charge Your Battery” (because I really need MORE energy…ha ha ha). And the moderator/Instructor asked this question: Do you focus a lot of energy on doing things that boost your […]
Yesterday, Lisa Bull wrote about depression on her weekly post for my blog. She mentioned a couple of things that, if you have every experienced depression, you probably nodded your head and said, “Um hmm. Been there.” One of the things she wrote really touched me because the feelings she described are far too familiar: […]