Time for something that's just pure fun. A month or so ago, my mom was going through a bookshelf and found something odd stuck in one of their books. She pulled it out and laughed...because this wasn't just random paper. This was my very, very, very first book. In...

My husband and I are a very snuggly couple, so it was only a matter of time before one of said, "I wonder where the word snuggle comes from? Clearly snug, but...like, tight? Because you're coming in close?" Turns out...not exactly. Because the "tight" meaning of snug...

Holy Week has long been the most precious week of my year. Even in high school, this was the week that brought my focus fully onto Christ in a way nothing else ever can. This is the week that inspired my first novel, A Stray Drop of Blood. This is the week when my...

If you've been following my looks into the naming conventions for the days of the week, then you know by now that each day is named for a god whose "hour" began the day in the Neo-Babylonian empire's calendar system (they had seven hours in a day, so each day of the...