[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Comfort and contentment are my preferences. I’m not ashamed to admit it. On a recent Friday, though, a downed tree crashed through my fence and changed my plans in an instant. Editing gave way to…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Just after 4 am, the train roared down the tracks, horns blaring, “Coming through. Coming through.” There’s no chance of sleep when the iron horse rides, for me or the dogs at the…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Yesterday, I planned to finish a chunk of edits on my fiction work-in-progress. They’re dangerously close to past-due, so all my attention was glued to the manuscript. As I edited a terrorist attack…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] “Hope is that beautiful place between the way things are and the way things are yet to be. See Hebrews 11:1” Yesterday, my pastor posted those words on social media.  They reverberated…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” The quote is attributed to Marc Antony, but it certainly applies to my life.  I love what I do,…

[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]My small group agreed to do a Bible study by Priscilla Shirer. It’s a good study and requires a fair amount of introspection. My preference is to dig into the ancient languages and drag out…