How to Walk (with His Hand on Your Back)
Like a burr beneath a saddle, a hull of corn between the teeth, it’s been eatin’ him. Little Schrock, my blue-eyed scholar in the first full grade, has been struggling. Because of a girl. “She makes me laugh,” he says, distressed. Mama listens....
Summer Miracle
“Mr. Schrock,” read the note that went up the other day. “Your children are setting off bottle rockets in the back yard. Pretty sure that wasn’t on the handwritten list I handed down earlier today. If you’d like to limber up your running legs or practice your pulpit...
Parents Teach, but Children Teach, too
I learned a lot from my mom. As a girl growing up on the prairie, I learned how to keep a house. Dusting, sweeping, mopping, straightening, organizing and washing dishes were routine chores for my sister and I. I learned how to bake. Somewhere, a photo shows a girl...
What I Didn’t Know
I always knew I wanted to be a mother. As a girl, I played house with my dollies, taking them to church, shushing them when they cried, and kissing their plastic heads. Looking back at that girly girl, playing with her dolls, I realize now that there was a lot she...Newest Book
The Secret to Happiness
Escape to Cape Cod--where you just might find the secret to happiness
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For the Love Dogs
Second place winner of Written Arts Awards for General Fiction!
From the author of the Copper Star series, winner of multiple awards, comes this heartwarming tale of Samantha Christiansen, a young woman who is capable, confident, good at her job of managing the family's olive oil ranch...and is going blind.
