I remember the day the package arrived at my front door. I scooped it up and nervously pulled back the tape that sealed the cardboard box shut. I opened the lid and there it was: my first novel! I think I was a little bit in shock. This is something I had dreamed of since I was a teenager, and here it was, finally in my hands. My earliest memory of writing happened in grade school. The nun who taught our English class told us that we could enter an essay contest; the subject was about the...

English was always my favorite subject in school. I liked reading, spelling, phonics (if you remember that), and even grammar! I enjoyed learning about those things, but I didn’t understand then that words have power and it is important that we learn to use them well. Words are used to communicate our thoughts, to tell others what we think and also how we feel. So, it’s important to use words correctly, so that others may understand us, and come to know us better. It is important to spell...

I believe that God can speak to us and often does. We may not be aware that it is God all the time, but there are other times when we...