SweetPea is ten months old now, and Grandma and Grandpa are so blessed to have been a part of her first Christmas. She thought it was pretty awesome all the way around. It was fun to sit on Grandma’s lap, lean way back over the arm of the chair, and peer up at tree. And…

My daughter painted this scene in the window of a Tim Horton’s coffee shop  This is the other side of the door.  In a used bookstore window.  It’s hard to take photos of windows! She has several other projects on the go as well, but these were the only ones we could get pictures of…

I’m headed out right after lunch on a weekend getaway in Couer d’Alene, Idaho, for a workshop put on by the Idaho Writers’ League. The instructor is Randy Ingermanson, physicist and author of several speculative fiction novels as well as renowned writing teacher. I was happy to discover that one of Randy’s faithful blog readers…