Join Me at Southern BelleView

I’m delighted to be the newest Belle over at Southern Belleview Daily. The site includes weekday blog postings from a variety of Christian authors all located in/writing about the South. There are two authors for each day of the week, alternating posts. Mondays...

2014 in review

I love the annual report WordPress sends for my blog at the end of each year. And what was my most popular post for 2014? Something to do with the release of my first novel and the e-novella that preceded it? Nope. It was a post about my nephew asking me if I’d...

Christmas in Appalachia c. 1974

Yup, that’s me on Christmas Eve forty years ago looking very worried about the fire Dad’s fiddling with in the fireplace. I wanted to be sure that fire was OUT before Santa arrived. Hope you’re having a very Merry Christmas filled with memories that...

What if Enough Were . . . Enough?

I listened to John Ortberg’s When the Game Is Over It All Goes Back in the Box on CD last week. And I was captured by a section in which he talked about how much of our lives are spent in the pursuit of MORE. More money, more time, more stuff, more prestige,...

Appalachian Thursday–Christmas Trees

We’ve had a live Christmas tree almost every year–when I was a child and now as an adult. When we were kids in WV, we’d go to a nearby Christmas tree farm (I mean, a mile or so away) and pick out a tree. Now, in Western NC, the tree farms are higher...