There are days when I genuinely wonder if my presence in the world makes any difference. If you look up “average” in the dictionary, I’m pretty sure you’d find my picture there. Sometimes I look with admiration at those who have accomplished great things, and then I let myself get discouraged knowing I won’t ever Read More
Living Outside the Lines
Remember being a kid and playing hopscotch? If your foot landed on a line, you were out and your turn was over. So in hopscotch playing inside the lines is the desired modus operandi, but in life, at least mine, not so much. I want to play outside the lines because that’s where all the Read More
A Cuppa Trouble
The author introduces many characters with their own mini stories making it difficult to follow the story’s true action. The mini squabbles between business partners Tandy and Marissa along with their significant others only serve to further dilute the plot. Read More
The Family Blessings Series
The four books in Stephanie Dees’ Family Blessing Series are full of faith, family bonds, sacrifice, determination, and love. While the stories share many characters and commonalities, each one can also stand-alone. However, anyone choosing to read the entire series will undoubtedly enjoy getting to know the many characters a bit more intimately. One word Read More
Who I Am With You
A story within a story, Robin Lee Hatcher’s Who I Am with You weaves the tale of a patriarch’s faith within the modern story of his great granddaughter’s journey. Betrayed, pregnant and widowed, Jessica Mason struggles between her grief and anger at both her husband and God. Unwittingly drug into a politic scandal, Ridley Chesterfield Read More
Swimming in the Deep End
Abortion, adoption, and teenage pregnancy; all emotionally charged subjects that bring out the worst amongst dissenters, yet Christina Suzann Nelson’s Swimming in the Deep End dares to take an in depth look at each subject through the eyes of impacted individuals. Swimming in the Deep End is an intimate story of five incredibly different, and Read More
Silent Days, Holy Night
Phyllis Clark Nichols’ Silent Days, Holy Night is an improbable love story, with absolutely no romantic overtures amongst the characters. Eleven-year-old Julia Russell is a precocious, highly intelligent child, with an insatiable quest for knowledge, who never stops asking questions. These somewhat annoying personality traits prove invaluable when Julia meets deaf and wheelchair-bound recluse, Henry Read More