Earlier this year, I submitted a poem to the Iowa Poetry Association's Lyrical Iowa Competion. The category I submitted the poem to was...

Earlier this month, my husband and I traveled together with a mission team to Jamaica to partner with local subsistence farmers by...

This week is All-Saints Sunday with my Good Shepherd church family. After preparing this week's worship service with the inclusion of...

There are these two sisters, both pretty quiet. They are probably in their 60s or 70s. They work in a local nursing home, and they live...

Hometowns are close to our hearts. My hometown is a little place. Actually, if I'm honest, as a farm kid, I had several places that I...

Almost a decade ago, I wrote this sonnet as my kids went off to school. Now, as my youngest starts his senior year in high school and my...

Earlier this year, I was pretty sure I would return to my job as a collegiate communication instructor/tutor in the fall. I had taken a...

Remembering the Home Place is my very first book. It is a book I felt called to write during a time of stillness and sorrow after the...

Psalm 107:2a (NIV) exclaims "Let the redeemed of the Lord tell their story." Because the stories God has given me to tell point so...