All About Me — Updated 2025

 Welcome to my little corner on the internet! I’m glad you’re here. This is the place I share life as an empty nester, a gardener, a writer, a lover of books, and my journey with Jesus. My views and beliefs are based on a life of walking away from the inner voice of a Post Traumatic Stress Disorder victim and the freedom I’ve found in Christ. 

 

September 2025

I began this blogging journey in 2013 after attending a writer’s conference in Ashville, North Carolina. Until that time, writing was something I kept to myself. Fear of rejection kept me from sharing my words with anyone except my journal. One of the conference speakers challenged us to ask God if He wanted to speak through our written words, and I felt the call to say “yes.”

 

I live on eleven acres in Upstate South Carolina with my husband of forty-seven years. My two children, Andy and Bailey, are both grown and married, and between them have given us four adorable grandchildren: Baylor, Drew, Levi, and Nicholas. 

 

My first book of poetry, Breathings of My Heart, was published in 2019. The book I’m most proud of will be published in the fall of 2025. The Broken Road—A Journey to Healing is the story of the trauma, abandonment, abuse, and rejection I experienced in my formative years and the ultimate healing in my fifties. The effects of my trauma bled over into my adult life and caused considerable damage. My story does have a happy ending by the grace of God who never gave up on me or let me go.

 

I hope you find words on my blog that will help lead you to the only One who can truly heal the body, mind, soul, and spirit. I also like to share book and podcast recommendations as well as encouragement to live your best life.

 

Pour yourself a cup of tea or coffee and join me in My Little Corner. I hope you leave my blog knowing the miracle of a broken life transformed.