Caroline

We had an essay contest at school for educators to submit their writing piece and I hope this inspires or encourages someone who is considering education. It’s such a fulfilling calling and I’m honored [...]

This is our ragged, fleshly life:  tragedy and grief in the middle of our existence, bookended at both sides by delightful joy and felicity. We encounter the deepest delight, followed by profound heartbreak, and [...]

I am convinced that at the end of "It's A Wonderful Life," when George Bailey is crying, it's not the money pouring in or the building and loan that they have all saved, but [...]

We were 1,000 miles away in the Chicago suburbs the first year I couldn't get home to Colorado. I was 37 years old. My daughters were in elementary school, and my husband's job as [...]

A weary world rejoices... and we're still a world in sin and error pining. Yet what a Holy Night when Christ, The Word, became flesh! We celebrate His light, His love, His sacrifice, His [...]

On the 1st of December, 1959, my mother and her family immigrated from the Netherlands to Los Angeles, bringing very little except incredible hope and dreams of making the United States their home, and [...]

Today I am remembering my dear, wonderful Oma, 14 years after her death. I greatly miss Diny's deep love, dedication to prayer, encouraging temperament, joyful laughter, energetic spirit, sheer zest for life, loyalty to [...]

There's something special about reading a good book; one which grabs your heart remains with you always! My eldest daughter loves the story, The War I Finally Won, by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley. It is [...]

“It was November — the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines." Anne of Green Gables

Over the past five years, I have marveled at the many ways I have grown as a writer because of my debut work, In Those Other Lands. The risk I took in writing, the [...]