Today’s encouraging words are a reminder that sometimes you need to learn to be a good receiver in order to learn to become a better giver. The times in my life when I’ve been embarrassed at what someone wants to give me because I can’t reciprocate have been many. But those times helped me to…

Multi-award-winning author Susan May Warren offers us a fun and exciting look at how she built her current series, the action-packed Montana Rescue series. Storm Front, book 5 in the soon-to-be 6-book series, released on May 1, 2018, and we talked about those characters, subplots, settings, and more. Susie May is a hybrid author, both…

In this deeply personal episode about my journey into burnout and my quest for a way out, I mention several articles and Bible verses which helped change my perspective and show me a path back to peace. Among those is this article on Psychology Today, “The Telltale Symptoms of Burnout…Do You Have Them?“ Definitely look…

As I’ve been struggling to figure out where I’m going in life, a scene came to mind from the movie, Monsters, Inc. Near the beginning, when Sully and Mike are hiding Boo and trying to figure out how to get her back to her own world without getting caught, they are all in Sully’s apartment…

Interviewing the lovely Patricia Bradley was an exercise in paradoxes. Hearing this sweet Christian woman pronounce in her soft, Southern drawl, “Oh, I love to talk about murder. It’s just fun” was just the beginning of my mind bending to look at things differently.

Most people don’t consider taxes “fun” but I’d like to help you at least not think of them as “hard.” The first step is helping you to organize your sales information so that you have the information you need when you need it. The easiest way to do that is to create an Excel file.…

While talking with Kristin Billerbeck during the last episode, I was so excited to tell her that her new book, The Theory of Happily Ever After, really helped me during the difficult time I’ve been having in finding my joy again, finding out if writing is still part of what I’m meant to do with…

When Kristin Billerbeck, author of The Theory of Happily Ever After, proudly insisted during this interview, “I refuse to back away from the chick lit title” for her genre of books, my heart did a little happy dance! I love chick lit, and I love Kristin’s books.

Chris Fox came on the show last week to talk about his new book, Plot Gardening. I’ve been reading the book and making notes as I go through it, and it occurred to me that I might be able to help you as you work through a new book or try to figure out what…

I’ve been reminded these last couple of weeks of the importance in my life of play – and how incredibly underestimated its value has become in my life over the last seven or eight years. I’ve been talking about the importance of the words we use – out loud and inside our heads, and how…