I homeschooled my kids (for the sheer joy of it!) K-8 and then sent them to public high school and college. One of the things I learned early on in my homeschooling days was, for sanity’s sake, not to try to…

I ran across an old acquaintance recently, someone I hadn’t seen in years. We decided to share a meal and catch up. We talked of where our lives had taken us in the years we’d been out of touch. It was the…

Years ago someone came to me with information about a tween who was engaging in risky flirtations with adult strangers. Though the behavior hadn’t gone far enough to be innocence-destroying, it was dangerous. Peers had already tried talking sense to the tween without success. Deciding that…

Note to self: When reading your Kindle in bed be sure it’s tilted slightly backward rather than forward. That might save you another painful smack in the nose the next time you nod off.

I was determined to publish Blood Marriage for Kindle in May. It’s not looking good. I’m still pushing for a May publication date, but being a novice to this whole process, I underestimated the number of new skills I’d need to learn…