Guys – I’m going to Guatemala! I am super excited, I leave in just a couple of weeks! Here’s a quick summary of all the things: Where I’m headed I’m headed to an orphanage outside of Guatemala City called Casa Bernabe. My friend Sara lives there with her family; she and her husband Edgar are…
Read MoreLaunching this new website today is like winning an Academy Award – except it’s less heavy, it doesn’t involve celebrities, and it is a LOT more colorful! For those of you who’ve followed me for quite some time, you’ve watched this journey evolve. I started blogging in 2009 after my second colon cancer diagnosis. That…
Read MoreSo, I wrote about planning my own funeral. It’s a goal for 2019. Not dying necessarily (nor do I have any reason to expect it’s coming soon). But, when you’re in the cancer world, death is an inevitable subject that comes up a lot. As I’ve processed the passing of many friends, it’s also made…
Read MoreYou guys – I wrote a book! An advent devotional! I’m so excited to share the launch of my first published book today: Unexpected. 25 Daily Advent Devotionals. Advent Book Details The book is available via Amazon – paperback and Kindle. It contains 25 short readings focused on advent. It’s meant to be a quick,…
Read More“I feel like God doesn’t want me to look for a lot of new clients this fall, but to sit tight and trust Him…” I told my girlfriends over chips and salsa a few Wednesday nights ago. In the flurry of picking out a new pink backpack and filling an online shopping cart with school…
Read MoreI’m in the middle of an epic “teachable moment,” lecturing my daughter about needing swimming lessons although she’s comfortable enough to not drown when it hit me: I needed the lecture, too. This is the moment that sparked my latest post on the 936 Pennies blog! Parenting is full of gemstones, but one of my favorite…
Read MoreWhy did I write a blog on health privilege? Here’s the story! Several months ago, John Novak (a colleague at Inspire) called with one of my favorite questions – “Will you write a guest blog?” Inspire (an organization offering online patient support communities) and the Mayo Clinic Social Media Network collaborated to create a new…
Read More“If you can get a devotional published in The Upper Room, that’s an amazing accomplishment as a devotional writer.” It was a quick comment – maybe even a nonchalant comment. But when these words rolled off Susan King’s tongue at the Heart of American Christian Writer’s Network Conference in 2016, I had a big goal…
Read More“Do you want to write fictional children’s stories?” That was a message from my friend Sarah earlier last fall – a small question that opened a big door into several new worlds: Fiction writing Children’s stories International publishing studio & community of writers Creative writing with my daughter The Holiday Girls I’m pumped to share…
Read MoreI’m going to give myself some grace and blame this delayed announcement on the Christmas craze… … and use it as an excuse to push you to follow my Facebook Page for real-time updates like these! But: big news!
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