Unity Christian Music Festival: August 12-14th

I'm so excited to be speaking at the Unity Exchange Speakers Tent this year at Unity Christian Music Festival in Muskegon, Michigan. I'll be speaking on August 13th and 14th at 5PM.  Tickets for the event are $10 per day. There will be great bands and all kinds of fun to be had. I hope [...]

Old Scars Still Twinge Every Now And Again

This past weekend my husband and I were volunteering at Rock the Coast, a one day Christian music festival at Michigan's Adventure Park. In theory we were there to help watch a booth for Youth Advocate Resources.  Of course, what really ended up happening was I stayed at the booth while my husband wandered about [...]

Time for Spring Cleaning!

  Well, the sun is (mostly) shining and the birds are chirping (a little excessively but they are BIRDS after all). Even the Peepers are peeping these days! No. I don't mean the little eatable marshmallow figures which now come in more than yellow chick shapes (which was all there was when I was a [...]

Book Review ~ Picking Dandelions by Sarah Cunningham

There are few books I've read where I feel an almost immediate affinity for the author or the topic of their book. Sarah Cunningham and her offering Picking Dandelions: A Search for Eden Among Life's Weeds, is one of them. Why do I find this book so appealing?  I suppose being a woman and having lived [...]

Oh The Irony

I'm sitting here in my bedroom looking out the window at a beautiful view. The sky is blue, the sun is shining and the temperature is warm enough to step outside my door without a coat.     And for the last day of Winter in Michigan that's saying something.      We've had amazing weather [...]

We Are His Church

I had a really long week.  In fact, I think it was maybe one of the longest weeks ever. You know the kind I mean.  You wake up on Monday and it seems to take two years just to get to Wednesday and when you wake up on Thursday the weekend takes another five years [...]

December Musings ~ O Christmas Tree

Earlier this week my daughter and I went out in search of the perfect Christmas tree. My husband had noticed in the Sunday paper that one of the hardware type/building supply type stores was selling trees this week very inexpensively so I decided we should get one before they sold out.   The wonderful thing [...]

Love Almost Lost

My husband and I were fairly young when we married.  Both of us came from homes with broken relationships, but armed with unrealistic expectations of what it meant to be a wife or husband we thought we understood how to be in a marriage relationship.  How wrong we were. From the beginning we struggled financially. [...]

A God Thing

 Isn’t it amazing what a prayer can do?  Yes, I know…cheesy to use a song lyric but sometimes the cliche happens to be true.  What can I say, God never ceases to amaze me with His goodness…and His perfect timing. Back in February I was laid off, along with oh so many other people in [...]