Last month The Amazing Crab Alley Revival—my debut novel—released to the world. The week after its release, I turned sixty. As a young girl dreaming of someday being a novelist, I never could h [ Read More ]
Oh the places you’ll go. Why do you read books? To learn, to be distracted to be entertained? To relax or be be lulled to sleep? I like to fall asleep reading, but I always go back and read w [ Read More ]
How do you know that what you’re reading honors God? That’s a difficult question, isn’t it? On the surface, perhaps it sounds like an easy answer, but it might be more challenging than you th [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Lyneta Smith
Dog-Eared Days of Summer Summer reads hit differently than stories we enjoy cozied up by the fire in winter or the brainy back-to-school tomes we enjoy in the fall. The sun lingers in the sky, so r [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Helena Smrcek
Finding Hope in the Small Things Have you ever noticed that the biggest moments in life often begin with something very small? A kind word from a stranger. A handwritten note tucked into a mailbox. [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – by Renee Leonard Kennedy
It was the summer brokenness caught up with my family, that year 2022. I’d rented a beach house on the water, an outrageous move coming off a grand-finale of losses, culminating in a separation a [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Jennifer Haynie
Animals have been a part of my life ever since I can remember. We had a short-haired Dachshund named Ute when I was little. Not the nicest dog from what I remember. Then we had Spice, a long-haired [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Sara Davison
On Story Collections and Playing With Other Genres I’ve always wanted to write books, and night after night spent reading The Bobbsey Twins with a flashlight under the covers nudged me in the dir [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Eva Marie Everson
The worst thing about being sick, for me (besides the actual being sick) is that I have to stop. Stop what I’m doing (usually working) and just lie there and look around at the place I call & [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Jennifer Wake
by Jennifer Wake As a Chemistry teacher, a Financial Counselor, author, speaker, and quilter, I am considered an enigma. My interests are wide-ranging, and my reading habits reflect that same diver [ Read More ]