Years ago, I spent a good deal of time on family farmland near Creston, Iowa, the kind of small town…

A lot of us question our sanity at some point in life. I had a moment just like that in…

I came to a scene in Ravens Cove and went completely blank. I knew the church had burned. I knew…

From Alaska blizzards to Texas heat, discover how extreme weather became a lesson in humility, faith, resilience, and finding beauty…

A heartfelt reflection on introversion, family, faith, and why writers often find their deepest peace in the quiet worlds they…

I was standing in the grocery store, list in hand, doing the same weekly shopping I’d done a hundred times…

In Ingress, a boy named James Clarke wanders somewhere his grandfather forbade him to go, chasing nothing more than a game…

Every house makes noise. The settling of wood, the tick of a cooling wall, the hum of a refrigerator in…

There is no profanity in my books. Readers notice, and now and then someone asks me about it, usually with…