I’ve heard many writers rave about Google Maps, but until A Promise Kept, the book I just finished, I didn’t really need it. I knew my settings well from site visits or having lived in the communities. Cincinnati — yeah, don’t know it well at all. So I turned to Google maps. I LOVE the satellite feature. It allowed me …

For years I’ve wanted to write books. It was one of those dreams that refused to die, even when I would take it out periodically and ask God if I should let it die. Yet even as the dream stuck with me, I’d look at the marketplace and wonder if I’d ever be able to write the kind of books …

This week I’ve been thinking about passion. You know, that elusive something that lights a fire in your belly or brain and won’t let go. I’m in a space in my writing schedule where it’s all about writing proposals. Proposals are work. I have to create ideas out of thin air…and sometimes in the back of my mind, I wonder …