I hope you had a fantastic Labor Day weekend. I snuck away to see my daughter and her lovely family. And hung out with these two cool dudes.
This is my hubby. He cooks for us.
And this is my amazing son-in-law, Neil. Look at those dogs. They love him. I wish my characters obeyed me as well as these dogs obey Neil.
I started writing a new book this week. I’m two chapters in and I’m already staying up late at night thinking through all the exciting things that are going to happen. I love the thrill of discovering new characters and taking them on a journey. I usually have everything all plotted out before I start but often there are blank spaces and I love to see how God fills those blanks—and the entire story—with truth.
It’s another beautiful Friday night but our summers are ending fast, aren’t they? Hubs and I took a quick trip down to Florida this past week to help our son Noah pack up and head off to… Kazakhstan! He’ll be spending a year there teaching English at a local college and we’re so excited for him.
I’m gonna be honest. In my childhood I loved a book called Zanballer.
It was a story about a girl who wanted to be a quarterback.
In my head I was that girl. I loved watching football with my dad. He would do this crazy thing where he would turn the volume off on the television and listen to the game on WCCO radio while he watched it on television.
August! Hello—where did summer go? I have friends whose children are back in school!
I can admit that panic has set in. My TBR is massive, and my porch is calling…
I did make a small dent in the pile this week by reading a book by one of my friends,
Truth is, I love my garden. Even when we lived up north, I had a nice house garden, with flowers that usually survived the winter. When we moved to this house, the garden was one massive juniper plant that overtook everything with its wild bristly branches. I tore it out, and decided not to remove the thousands and thousands of tons of rock around the house,
I’m breaking out of my usual routine for a fun announcement! The next installment of the Deep Haven Collection, How Sweet It Is, by Andrea Christenson, has arrived!
The book is set (of course) in Deep Haven, the Minnesota small town that’s near and dear to my heart,
It’s the middle of July already, isn’t it? I’m going to do something unusual in this little post and that is recommend something that has impacted my life recently. I did that a few months ago with The Chosen. And today I’m doing it with the new movie The Sound of Freedom.
Just a quick note today to say that if you’ve been waiting for Hunky Hud and Inspiring Iris then their story is out today in the Susan May Warren store!
I think you’ll love this book. Iris has been sitting on my heart for a long time— I couldn’t wait to write a story about a female football official.