Characters are the backbone of what makes a story a story. The more developed and interesting the characters are, the more compelling the story. As we drew closer to our 25 year mark of two becoming one, I kept being drawn to the need to wrap some words around my husband. It’s easy to become… Continue reading My Leading Man
Parenting is a strange process. You spend 18 or so years preparing children, parts of your own soul, to go out into the world and be independent thinkers and dreamers. And then you wake up one day and realize they have, and it’s absolutely terrifying. Control? Gone. At some point children wander across… Continue reading A Daughter’s Dream
“Excessive Generosity“….What do these words conjure in your mind? Rather, what do they make you feel in your heart? I openly admit that I dreaded starting Jeff Shinabarger’s newly released More or Less: Choosing a Lifestyle of Excessive Generosity. I was afraid of the conviction I knew would come, fearful of what I might be… Continue reading What Is Enough?
Sometimes you read something that is good and you promptly forget it. And then there are times when you read something good, at the exact right time, and it moves you to take action. This is what happened when I read The Flinch by Julien Smith at the start of January this year. This short,… Continue reading Facing The Flinch
Tis the season for the list of “things I’m thankful for”. What a thing to be spreading like wildfire, this story of gratitude. I can’t begin to describe what the listing of gifts has done for my story. Thanks to Ann Voskamp, I am tipping toward #4000. But that story is for another day. Cultivating gratitude is no… Continue reading November, The Gratitude Month
The Story Place 