When I lived in East Glacier Park, Montana, March was a tough month. As an East Coaster, March was when winter loosened its grip, and spring crept onto tree limbs and released green shoots of flowers from their slumbering bulbs. In that part of Montana, winter doubled down. Sometimes our … Read More

Montana winters are long. We feel it most acutely after the tease of a January thaw, followed by the deep freeze of February. It’s not the same as the joyful anticipation of the holiday season, but rather a desperate questioning of “When?” When will warmth finally return to release the … Read More

What a great launch day! People are downloading and reading Winter in Promise Cove like mad! One reviewer said the only reason she put it down was to go to work! I am very appreciative of my beta reader team, my early reviewers, and my super fans who make this … Read More

The heroine in Winter in Promise Cove, Fiona, has become stronger by being replaced by a trophy wife. She’s been forced to recreate her life, but because she doesn’t have any strong skills, she has depended on her settlement. Now that’s about to run out. She needs to do something. … Read More

Callow youth, mother, crone … where do you think you are on your journey through life? Are you the same as you were in your 20s? I’m certainly not. Are you even the same person you were last January? Looking back, can you see the changes you’ve made to how … Read More

In the Bible, Isaiah says, “For a child will be born to us, a son will be given to us; And the government will rest on His shoulders; And His name will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.” I don’t know about you, but I … Read More

In the Northern Hemisphere, each day has less sunlight. Of course, we know it will grow light again after the solstice, but what if we didn’t KNOW that. Would we have hope that it would? Would we pray to whatever superior being was handy? That’s a bit what it is … Read More

Living the way we do in a roving trailer, a community can be hard to come by. Community on the road is a lot different from the small towns I’ve created or used in the Promise Cove and Beck Family Saga series. (If you’ve read Starting for Home, the town … Read More

Somewhere around 2014, my friend, Heather, started working at the Sweets Barn in Lolo, Montana. Subsequently, she became the new owner. If you’re ever in the area check it out. She’ll even ship. (My son in Pennsylvania hoarded the chocolates I sent him for his birthday from the Sweets Barn … Read More

An idea for a new series has been wandering around my brain for almost a year now. These ideas always begin the same way: What happens if … Images float around. A tall, big-boned woman with a shovel pouring the first clumps on her husband’s coffin before handing the tool … Read More