The Long Wait
Tonight I am attending an activity that I feared I’d never participate in again—worship team practice. In Reno singing with the choir and worship team was such a part of my identity that I couldn’t...
View ArticleWhy I Love This Book Cover
Today my editor at Worthy Inspired e-mailed me something very exciting: my official cover for Suddenly Single Mom: 52 Messages of Hope, Grace, and Promise. As soon as I saw it I fell in love with it,...
View ArticleRevisiting Confessions of a Highly-sensitive person
There is a good side and a bad side to just about everything. This week, for example, I have gotten a lot of writing done, include progress on my book, but this kept me from coming up with a new idea...
View ArticleWhat a Tragedy! Or Maybe Not
This week I started reading a fascinating book: And There Was Light: Autobiography of Jacques Lusseyran, Blind Hero of the French Resistance. I haven’t gotten to the part where he manages to join the...
View ArticleBed Bugs and Rustic Living
A week ago today, Dad got one of those phone calls that brings everyone to a screeching halt. Three days before the long-awaited Thiessen Cousins Reunion, the director of the camp we’d booked called to...
View ArticleMisunderstood
As one who was born with just enough of an impairment to leave people perpetually confused, I’ve experienced my share of strange questions and comments. Here are a few of the most memorable: Me: “I’m...
View ArticleUntil Our Hearts Catch Up
Almost two years ago, I started attending a class for women who, like me, were trying to make sense of someone else’s choices and the reality that our lives would be altered forever because of them. As...
View ArticleYou Know You’re Surrounded by Teenagers When . . .
You overhear your niece and your son calling each other Dude. Someone just called you Dude. You receive a series of text messages sent from the back seat. You are no longer the only one buying hair...
View ArticleThe One Who Took All the Pictures
I didn’t post anything on my blog yesterday because we got some sad news. My former husband’s dad, affectionately known as Grandpa Hal, passed away. I spent the past hour looking for a good picture of...
View ArticleWhere Were You When . . .?
We all have our “Where were you when” moments. Where were you when President Regan got shot? I was in the Resource Room at Pine Valley Middle School reading a book because my mobility teacher was sick...
View Article5 Ways to Help a Single Mom
Since signing the contract to write Suddenly Single Mom, I have spent a lot of time reliving the pain and difficulty of adjusting to parenting alone. I’ll confess that I have had moments that stirred...
View ArticleWhat an Author is Doing While You Wait for Her Book
Last week I found out that Suddenly Single Mom is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble’s website, and CBD. Two thought went through my mind: Yay!!! Oh no! What if I don’t finish it in...
View ArticleBooks for the Journey
Hi, my name is Jeanette, and I’m a bookaholic. It has been five days since I last entered a bookstore. (That’s your cue to say, “Hi, Jeanette. We’re here for you.”) I have a “Books that Changed My...
View ArticleWhat the Child of a Writer Endures
Nathan stood behind me while I finished a comment that I wanted to leave on a friend’s blog. “Mom, you do know that everything you post is public, right?” I hit Post Comment. “Yeah.” Where did that...
View ArticleHow Knitting Saved My Life
Okay, knitting didn’t literally save my life; I was going for the dramatic. But it did, along with crocheting, make life a lot better while adjusting to my new life as a single mom. I learned to...
View ArticleThe Best Part
I have an exciting excuse for blogging later than usual this week—two of my author friends and I appeared on television! Kathy Boyd Fellure invited me, Marci Seither, and Sue Peppers to be guests on...
View ArticleCelebrating Weird
“Am I . . . weird?” I should probably apologize to the friends who had to answer this. Talk about a loaded questions! What were they supposed to say? “Well, yeah, sort of. But in a cute way.” Then I...
View ArticleHitting Send
By the time you read this I will have sent Suddenly Single Mom to my editor. I’ve written, proofread, run Spellcheck and reread again, and it’s officially time to let the manuscript go. I’m so excited...
View ArticleA Second First
Does this book cover look familiar? It is hard to believe that it has been thirteen years since it came out in print! Good-bye to All That was the first published book, and I got to write it for Focus...
View ArticleThree Years Later
I rediscovered this picture the other day. It’s one of my favorites! It was taken over Thanksgiving weekend 2012, a few weeks after Nathan and I moved back to the Bay Area to live with Mom and Dad....
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