by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Someone once told me that all crazy women have super-thin eyebrows. I don’t see how I could even begin to argue with that logic. So I pencil. And I pencil strong. I feel I have a lot to prove. That’s one reason doing makeup in the car…

by DiAnn Mills @DiAnnMills Writers seldom become successful and create a marketable book—overnight. At least that wasn’t my experience. Highways, speed bumps, and traffic lights are a part of the writing life. The victories and triumphs are waylaid with rejection slips, disappointments, and lots of rewrites. But when the first…

By Penny Reeve A number of years ago, when I was just learning how to blog, I wrote a series of posts called ‘Whatever is lovely’ in which I made a deliberate effort to seek out, notice and write about the things that defied brokenness to represent the essence of…

By Sheila Alewine @AlewineSheila No one can dispute the power of words, and I believe written words are exponentially more powerful, if only because they last longer. If a friend or loved one says something encouraging to me, I may remember it for a few days, or if it was…

by Rhonda Rhea @RhondaRhea Debit card, my debit card. Oh how I need that thing. One day a while back I couldn’t find my card anywhere. I looked for it all afternoon. Even by the next morning, still no trace. I searched high and low, near and far. I even searched…

By Penny Reeve I remember it clearly, the day I gave up. The day I ran my hand over the top sheet of my children’s fiction manuscript, shut the folder and slid it out of sight. It was a good book. It had tension, heart, pace and great chapter hooks.…