One of the things I love about being a writer is digging deep to give wisdom and meaning to my characters in dialog and action that’s not trite or expressly something I would say or do. While I’m pro life, I had to write convincing pro choice dialog for the book The Sweet By and By when my heroine was …
Eternity On Our Hearts
The summer I was fifteen, life opened up for me. I was no longer in the geeky, chubby young teen stage, but a lean, older, trying-to-be-confident teen. I’d completed my first year as a cashier for Publix and finally, I was allowed to leave the Express Lane and work a big register. Woo hoo. You do not know how much …
Living a fasted lifestyle
A friend and I’ve been emailing back and forth about a fasted lifestyle. What does it mean? Why and how do we live “fasted?” Can we look around our lives and see what we don’t need, what we can do without and take the time and money we spend on them to give to the poor, or aid a family …