When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers,
they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be
burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you.
~ Isaiah 43:2 ~

I remember long hot summer days – days that had plenty of time for pretend cooking under the back porch, which was one of my favorite shady, thus cooler, summer spots. I also enjoyed going into our grove behind the barn. There was one of my favorite things, an old horse driven plow. I would [...]

I’ve been feeling a bit down the last few days. We’ve been doing a lot of fun things, but that has meant that we’ve been even busier than usual, which is difficult even for me to believe.
Travel and guests mean fun, but they also bring with it a sort of emotional letdown when they are [...]

I hope you all enjoyed your 4th of July weekend. I know we did. Its always good to have some extended family time.
This week I have a very special guest writer – my daughter Emily.  She is oldest of our children who are still at home  and has always been homeschooled. I must say that [...]

Greetings from Rochester, MN – home of the Mayo Clinic. My husband has been taking classes here the first week of May every year since 1995. That makes this our 15th year of spending a week here.
That first year our children were four, six, and eight – now they are 19, 21, and 23 – [...]

MCWG Spring Writer’s Conference
Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Hello all my fellow writers and friends,
My daughters and I were blessed on Saturday to be able to [...]