Monthly Archives: December 2015

When you’re born second, everything your older sibling gets to do looks great. Take, for example, when I was about three and my sister was six. One day she showed me the money she’d saved from her allowance and explained … Continue reading →

  In celebration of this extraordinary Jubilee Year of Mercy, from now until December 31 Rain from Heaven, my novel about God’s mercy, will be absolutely free on Amazon Kindle. If you got a Kindle for Christmas or know someone who … Continue reading →

  In every Christmas pageant you see, whether it is a live production,  a movie, or a television program, the Magi arrive the very night Christ is born. We know from the Bible this just isn’t so. For one thing, … Continue reading →

When our girls were little, Santa came to the children’s room of our local library. The kids there had the chance to sit on his lap and relate their Christmas wishes. The first time Santa asked my older daughter what … Continue reading →

Looking for some inexpensive electronic stocking stuffers to give your Christian friends who own a Kindle this Christmas? All three of my Christian novels are now on sale for just 99¢ each. That’s less than $3 for all three! Rain … Continue reading →

  Several years ago, a young man asked me on a date to the Moorten Botanical Garden in Palm Springs, California. It didn’t sound all that exciting, but he was very much into cacti, so I agreed to go along. … Continue reading →

Once, when I was a little girl, I asked a nun what Heaven is like. “It’s like the Mass,” she told me. Talk about deflating my balloon. Back then the Mass was still in Latin, and as a mere child, … Continue reading →