About Me

As with each and everyone of us, it would take several volumes to really tell you about me. All the twists and turns, the hurts and the healing, all the sunshine and rain that have made me who I am. To explain the paths the Lord has taken me down, protected me from, and allowed me to stumble through would require too much of you, who has that kind of time?

What I can tell you about me in a nutshell is that I am a child of God, who is continuing in the beautiful, grueling process of sanctification. My husband, Chad and I have been married twenty-five years and while we both long for Heaven and all that awaits us there, we love doing this life together – the good and the bad. We love serving our church family together, camping, riding bikes and watching movies. 

Together we have two adult sons, one lovely daughter-in-law, and one baby girl we look forward to meeting in Heaven one day. We educated our boys at home – years I will always look back on with gratitude and fondness. One small detail that most find interesting is that I put my writing on hoId during those years. I don’t do well being pulled from my fiction world back in to reality and I don’t do well in reality when my mind is consumed with my fiction world. I needed to be all-in with writing, or all-in with homeschooling my children. I chose my children. Something I will never regret. 

I literally prayed that the Lord would take my desire to write so that I wasn’t constantly fighting the desire to lock myself in my room and hide in the corner with my laptop. God answered that prayer and I went for many years with absolutely no desire to write. I was able to give myself to our boys and not feel pulled. That was nothing short of a gift. 

When our boys were in high school and more independent, the time seemed right for me to get back in the saddle and my desire to write was returned. I started writing for Crosswalk.com and have now published three books. I have many more articles and books running amuck in my head – Lord willing they will all make it on to paper. 

As with many authors, my writing is an outlet – a way for me process my life and the lives of those around me. I read a quote once that said, “there are things that can be said in fiction that can’t be said in real life.” I find that to be true, and so my characters are often burdened with my history of abuse, my anxiety, depression and the oddities that come along with OCD. I hope though, that my characters are also reflections of the grace and forgiveness I’ve received and the growth and healing I continue to see in myself and others. 

As a certified biblical counselor, I am well aware of the fact that our world is full of hurting people. My hope is that, through my writing, people will know they are not alone and that there is hope to be found. 

Thank you for stopping in and giving my little nook a bit of your time.