From the Heart: “A Collection of Stories and Poems from the Front Lines of Parenting”

From the Heart: ” Collection of Stories and Poems from the Front Lines of Parenting” may no longer be in print, but if you’re interested, you can connect and contact the editor at https://writeforcharity.wordpress.com/the-book/. Read More

Finding Laurie

Working for a community college has many perks; the best one, in my humble opinion, is that in addition to paid personal days, sick days and vacation days, there are multiple college wide days off like four days at Thanksgiving, two weeks at Christmas and a week for Spring Break.  I cherish my time away Read More

Chosen Half Marathon for Adoption

Spend any time at River Stone Community Church in San Marcos, Texas and I guarantee the subject of orphan care/adoption will come up.  I was raised in church, but prior to our arrival at River Stone in 2009, never before had I heard orphan care preached as part of the gospel message. I naively thought Read More

From Halo to Half Marathon

At 5 a.m. September 15, 2012, an alarm clock interrupted my peaceful sleep.  The day I had spent ten months preparing for had finally arrived.  I yawned, stretched and stealthly sent my travel pillow flying across the room nailing my friend Lisa as she dressed in the dark.  I knew it was going to be Read More