The Top 3 Best Books I Read in 2022

I love keeping track of how many books I read each year, and which ones they were! While I didn't read quite as many books this year as in years past, I was able to read quite a few, most being new books I'd never read before! I read the three books listed below for …

The Key to Becoming a Strong Writer

When some people start writing, their intention is to have a little fun, create a cool story to pass around to family and friends, then quit. And that's perfectly fine! However, others fall in love with the process, the impact of what a truly well-told story can have, and want to create stories for people …

New Year’s Day: Looking Backward and Forward

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Well! Would you look at that! 2022 has already arrived! I'm honestly quite shocked! Time moves so quickly these days, it's stunning! So much has happened in the last year, and I'm so glad I was able to do several of the things I set out to do last year around this …

Poem: Looking Up

Been looking down at where my feet land every day, trying to make sure my steps are flawless, on track. Afraid that one look up will make me lose my way, stray from the path and be unable to come back. ~ Refusing to leave the house and have fun with friends, terrified that a …

Poem: Midnight Walk

Voices in my mind. Answers I can’t find. A tear slides and falls. I’m in my sins entwined. ~ Time for a midnight walk. A quiet stroll around the block. A look at the stars, a plea to God for a talk. ~ Pouring out the problems, feeling at the bottom, clasping hands, knuckles white, …

Book Review: Adorning the Dark

Hello, everyone! Welcome back! Today I have something very exciting--my first ever book review! I have never done one of these so please forgive me if I mess anything up. Okay, got it? Then let's move on! Adorning the Dark, by Andrew Peterson Pages: 224 Genre: Non-Fiction Review: 5/5 Stars When I heard Andrew Peterson …

Poem: Face in the Crowd

Hello, everyone. This is a poem I wrote a little while ago and took a long time to post it, but here it is. Just a note, the words are kind of a mix of a rhyming poem and a freeverse. To be honest, it's written more like song lyrics than a poem. But anyway, …

Easter Poem: Because of Him

I feel the loss. I feel the hurt. I feel the pain. ~ I can’t breathe. I can’t think. I can’t see. ~ When I try it’s too much just for me. ~ I feel the tears. I feel the wound. I feel the rend. ~ I can’t hold. I can’t stand. I can’t mend. …

Poem: The Moving Tide

On the golden sands of the wide beach, and on the soft dirt of the little bay, ~ the tide rises and the tide falls, in its very own special way. ~ Using the moon as its magnet, up on the land the waves come and lay, ~ and then back once more into the …