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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 [...]

Tomorrow my twins turn 16 and they’re passionate and vivacious and complicated and endearing. Passions in life are being etched into their souls. They adore family time and enjoy talking about each day. One [...]

We have spent years preparing for this moment, to send my first daughter off to college. And now, 18 years later, is the time to let go, even amidst the mix of hesitation and [...]

Parenting three teen girls is not for the faint of heart. It’s refining and emotional and often the most personally reflective of my own challenges and limitations. How will I model living within and [...]

Raising three teenagers requires my entire heart and mind and emotional capacity. Shaping character is as painful for me as a mother as it is for their tender spirits. Some days the discipline bit [...]