Poet’s Pen

So, I’m only about halfway done with Lit by Mary Karr, but I just had to take a break from my voracious inhaling of this book to tell you how much (and why) I like it. Karr’s story (which includes just about every kind of trauma you can think of)  is raw,...

The Woman at the Mosque

Earlier this year, I did a video interview with Craig Spinks of www.recycleyourfaith.com. Craig and his wife, Sara, are traveling around the country (they’ve been on the road 7 months!) capturing all kinds of stories of faith. They want to tell the stories that...

Home

I spent Friday and Saturday with the most amazing group of women from a church up in Bakersfield. The two-day retreat was themed around Found Art, and we talked about discovering beauty in foreign places, experiencing God in foreign places, and caring for our souls in...

Loneliness

Thought you might like to read a column I wrote recently for a military wesbite, www.wivesoffaith.org, on the subject of loneliness. Enjoy. “Know and Be Known” When my husband Steve and I moved to Bahrain, literally days after we were married, I was all of...

crosswalk.com

Exciting to see the first chapter of Found Art featured on Crosswalk.com today! Watch for the cover image on the scrolling ad on the left side of the homepage!! Click on it to read the entire first chapter, “Uprooting.” Feel free and forward on to others...