Q. What is brown and sticky? A: a stick   I bought the world’s worst thesaurus yesterday. Not only is it terrible, it’s terrible! A termite walks into a bar and asks, “Is the bartender here?” Summer Quotes The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture… Read More

Scenes from this story in Ruth 1 have been painted over and over for centuries. There is so much truth and love woven into this one short chapter. To emphasize this weaving, I added texture to these painting by Matthews and Lastman so they resemble tapestries, because these stories add texture to our lives as… Read More

Writing historical fiction is much like weaving a tapestry. We choose our stories and gather our materials—in other words: Research! The WHO—the writer chooses the story. the WHAT—he reads it from every perspective and angle he can. The WHY, HOW, and WHEN—she searches for inconsistencies and unknowns among reports of events, reads works of scholars… Read More