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I have a friend who, in a very few short days, is starting something new and difficult in her work. It's a promotion in status and pay for sure, but it's also a promotion into anxiety and sweating and probably bad dreams ...

This morning I lay in bed for a few quiet moments before I had to get up and start herding cats (actually, cat singular) to church. Within that quiet, head on pillow, my mind roamed toward two solutions and one great idea. ...

Recently two very good friends -- women I have swapped many a book title with -- disliked two books that I love. This was  shocking to me, in a disproportionate kind of way. One book was Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The other was ...

My sister Miriam and I were walking down a dusty street in Poipot, a border town in Cambodia, with Thailand a stones-throw away, when the darkest moment in our trip took place. I travelled with Samaritan's Purse to Cambodia in the Spring ...

  With little book arms and little book hands, the two books I was involved with that were published this year could have reached out and touched each other. I stumbled upon them at Wycliffe College's bookstore, and, very quickly, before the hip-looking ...

"What other stories can we tell?" That's what my great Uncle Barry said yesterday as he sat in his wheelchair in a room in a nursing home in Hamilton. We were on a quest, my cousin Janet and I, to dig up ...

A few weeks ago, Patricia Paddey (my writing partner) and I, had the fun of attending a World Vision chapel service. We were interviewed briefly about Shifting Stats, our book published by World Vision. It was fun to see Patty (that doesn't ...

Last week I attended the Canadian Church Press conference, meeting with the Associated Church Press in downtown Toronto. Day one, I unintentionally broke into a parkade with my debit card, later spent 20 nervous, sweaty moments trying to find my van that ...

In the past week or two I have seen the fault in my listening. My husband can listen to people talk about the health ailments of their aunts in Australia. He can sit quietly and listen to a whole life story unspool ...

Today I was in the Faith Today offices to record our very first webinar. Very fun. The best part though was the thick, creamy envelope waiting for me there. At first, when I saw it was addressed to me and felt how ...

I have the wonderful opportunity again to join with Samaritan's Purse on an overseas trip that will enable me to tell important stories. This will be my third writing trip with them, first was to refugee camps in South Sudan, then an ...

No, no, no, silly. That is not me blowing bubbles leaning against the car in my cool plaid shirt. But it is me in spirit. I love the lightness and the joy reflected by my new website's cover image. It's fun. That ...