Beauty of Being Home {31 Days}

You can take a girl out of Kansas, but you can’t take Kansas out of the girl. When I moved to Iowa, I got digs all the time about how boring Kansas was. I got all worked up about it, which made the digs worse. I’m done getting worked up about it now, but I […]

Strength in God’s Comfort {31 Days}

When I was 11, my mom had twin boys. She had prayed for them, and God answered, “Yes.” Those twins are number 6 and 7 in our family of 9 kids where I’m the oldest. They just moved away from home this year for school. Of all my siblings, these two are the first to […]

Books…They’re Good for the Soul {31 Days}

Sometimes a book sticks with you your whole life. By the time I was a teenager I had read nearly all of Janette Oke’s Christian fiction novels. Over and over again. And my mom got me into it with one book. Once Upon a Summer. It’s about a boy named Josh who is incredibly ordinary. […]

Working Long Summer Days Away {31 Days}

It’s strange how things you despised as a child you miss as an adult. Growing up on a farm was no picnic. We moved from Florida to Kansas when I was 8 years old. We’d only been on the farm a year when my dad started investing in livestock. My brother Dave and I went […]