What do a suitcase and an umbrella have in common? As we slogged through our years of homeschooling, my daughters and I occasionally lightened up the day with a storytelling game. We each scribbled some random words on slips of paper, stirred them a basket, and then withdrew two or three to start a story…
Can you believe it’s that time again? On New Year’s Eve, my daughter and I both hustled to make our yearly reading goals. I finished around 9 p.m. She slid in at 11:25. Both of us in time for punch and fireworks in Chile! Now for the recounting of my top 12 books of 2025….
When, I ask myself, did Inspirational start to mean cozy, clean, and…colorless? No cursing, no killing…but no preaching, praying, or pew-parking, either. And definitely no controversy and no fighting and dying for the truth, if there even is a truth. In the publishing world, they’re called crossover books. Somehow I missed crossing over the bridge….