My guest today is a New York girl who fell in love with Ohio, M. Jean Pike writes about love and life in small town America. The author of ...

Love is a beautiful thing. As Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13:7, " It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures al...

All the Cousins on Grandma and Grandpa's Hill I must be looking my age--at least on some days. Recently, one much younger woman asked me...

We'll be going back to Eastern Standard Time very soon. The sun goes down earlier every night and the nights grow longer. My antidote to...

When I became pregnant with my first daughter, I was delighted. I believed I knew all about babies since I had two much younger sisters. I l...

My guest for today is Olivia Sykora. She has always been fascinated by allegorical stories. C.S. Lewis sits on the top of her favorite autho...

 The photo above shows my Uncle Robbie, my grandfather, my father, and my Uncle Gene--the baby my father is holding. In the summertime, my g...

I've read several of Clare's books and enjoyed each of them. She lives in a small town just outside Reading, England with her husban...

Halloween is coming! THE COMPANY YOU KEEP is at the rock bottom price of $0.99. It is now available as an audio book, too.  This book feat...

            Enjoy listening to some madrigals. Whenever I think of madrigals, I think of my first year in college and the reason I always ge...

 Yesterday I saw the Frog Prince sitting beside the koi pond. He didn’t move. I wondered if he was afraid of the large koi swimming around t...

This is a photo of a Butterick pattern from 1918, which I found on Pinterest. I always look up what was fashionable in any time period when ...

 This is the last oil painting I finished. It's a white-tailed deer. I took a photo of the deer several years ago in a local park. I was...

The page from the Libby App with some of my books. I’ve always been a fan of ebooks. They are very portable, they don’t collect dust, they d...

I'm the kid with the funny smile .       When summer comes around, I alway think about the way it used to be when I was young. Once a ye...

I took the photo of the man on the jetty on the day before Superstorm Sandy hit New Jersey. As you can see, the ocean was already quite s...

The ebook edition of THE COMPANY YOU KEEP is still available for only $0.99. If you enjoy a book set in the wintertime, a marriage of conve...

Books are magic. They have the ability to inspire and inform. But sometimes fiction takes on a whole new dimension when a writer’s imaginati...

Harbor Seals at Sandy Hook, NJ       In February, during the JeRoWriMo challenge, I edited and revised OUTSIDE BLESSINGS , a Young Adult Par...