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We Can All Use Some Encouragement
I had a chat this weekend with a friend of mine, whom I've known for years is in a tough marriage. Her husband is an alcoholic who has...
A Lady in Defiance
Jul 182 min read
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The Goodness of God
I have some good news over which I am still pinching myself. I mean, I literally am floored by the Lord's kindness to me. Seriously, I...
A Lady in Defiance
Mar 20, 20242 min read
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Watch Out for Falling Pianos...
The idea of teaching writing has been rolling around in my head for a while now. Last week, I was working up my newsletter and this was...
A Lady in Defiance
Jan 17, 20242 min read
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Fighting Your Calling Tooth-and-Nail
So, I'll be painfully honest here: my two sons haven't quite figured their lives out yet. Well, phrased like that, who has? What I mean...
A Lady in Defiance
Dec 7, 20232 min read
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The Name Above All Names...Right?
What would you think if you went to church and during praise and worship, a certain name was never mentioned? The lyrics clearly...
A Lady in Defiance
Oct 5, 20231 min read
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Bad Girls
But for the grace of God, there go I... Most of you know there is always at least a pinch of truth in my stories. In my new book, The...
A Lady in Defiance
Sep 6, 20232 min read
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It's Not About You...
Believe it or not. As you probably know, my Defiance books have been optioned by Beautifully Flawed Productions. This is a film...
A Lady in Defiance
Aug 30, 20232 min read
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The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Thing About My Life...
But don't curse it... I told a reader who is going through some hard stuff not to curse her blessings. I said this as much for my benefit...
A Lady in Defiance
Jun 26, 20232 min read
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Maybe It Isn't so Artificial, After All...
Truth and AI Is it the Image of the Beast? For example, scientists are seeing an increasing trend of what they politely call,...
A Lady in Defiance
Jun 2, 20231 min read
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God Made us to Dream
Most of you don't know this, but I started writing my big hit, A Lady in Defiance in 2000. Twenty-three years ago. Holy. Cow. I lost the...
A Lady in Defiance
May 24, 20232 min read
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The Johnson County War...
The More Things Change... I wrote Grace be a Lady with the sole intention of righting a wrong--at least on paper. In 1889, a 28-year-old...
A Lady in Defiance
Jun 13, 20222 min read
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There Really was a Western Town Named Defiance...and She Hated it.
In my Romance in the Rockies books, Defiance is a fictional town in the San Juan mountain range of Colorado. The town where Charles and...
A Lady in Defiance
Nov 8, 20101 min read
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