In my last entry, I confessed that I’m a word nerd. Unfortunately, this condition involves more than just an obsession with dictionaries. It also entails a fixation on encyclopedias. Maybe it’s because I had an incredible fifth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Sease. She made sentence diagramming fun. I didn’t fair so well in science though, but […]

Ok…I’m a word nerd. It’s true. I actually requested a dictionary for my birthday. Gaye’s husband saw the package and asked, “What’s this for?” “For Christy’s birthday.” “A dictionary?” he said scrunching his forehead. “Why didn’t you get her jewelry or some normal girly stuff?” But for this writer, a dictionary is the best accessory! […]

One of my favorite scriptures is Isaiah 43:18-19.  Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I admit. Sometimes when God is up to doing something new in my life, I often have trouble perceiving it. Things […]

“My mother-in-law is in the advanced stages of Alzheimer’s Disease,” the woman sitting across from me began. “After years of caring for her in our home, we finally had to put her in a nursing home.”   She flipped through a health magazine left on the table in the waiting room. Her gaze never left […]

“How’s your book coming along?” my brother Bruce asked. “Umm…good. I’m close to being finished.” Define close. “It gets embarrassing. Telling people that I’m still writing my book. Ahem…ten years later. I’m like an archer though. I don’t want to just hit the target—I want to hit the bulls eye. I could be published by […]