Several years ago I sat in a room full of women. It could have been a room in Halimah and Rania’s Khartoum home! I listened to them chatter, laugh, eat, relax, and play with the children. One mom broke off from the group to perform her Muslim prayers while her child pulled on her scarf and tried to get her to…
Today marks the first official day of the Blog Tour for Door to Freedom. Woohoo a virtual tour where we all get to sit at home with a cup of coffee (or other preferred drink) and join in with a simple click of a button. So…in honor of DAY ONE, I am going way back to 2013. I wrote this after…
War stories: the Old Testament is full of them. In these stories I read about a side of God that I don’t understand. I mostly see and experience Him as gracious and loving, so it is difficult for me to read about wars where kings are impaled and children are destroyed. This doesn’t shake my faith in God’s goodness, but…
Have you ever been judgmental? I know, me neither. But I heard this story about this lady…let’s just call her…Kana Jelley, you know, so I don’t use her real name or anything. Well, lately, she’d caught herself being judgy. That’s a strong term really. It was more that she had ideas for how other people could do things differently that…
On Saturday evening Kris and I started out on what was supposed to be a research trip for me for a story I am writing. But we had so much fun it really just turned into a pretty cool date night. We went to an area of our island called the Clan Jetties. The Hokkien people in that area of…
Hi! I’ve had a blog since 2010 and now I think it’s time to start fresh, don’t you? With the upcoming launch of my second novel, “Door to Freedom” (which I said I would never write…but I did!) I am launching an updated website and a fresh blog. Let’s do this!
