I usually say I wrote the Gutsy Girls series for my daughters. I say there was a hole in bookshelves when it came to true stories of great Christian women wh...

The day I took the Enneagram and discovered I was an Eight, I railed against the description.

The Great Flip and Gutsy Girls. Strong Christian Women Who Impacted the World

Gutsy Girls picture book series has a new online home, and this is your official invite to stop by. On the new site you will find the following Gutsy Girls g...

Sometimes when my youngest is in just the right mood, she completes a running swan dive onto my bed, buries herself in my oversized white comforter, and yell...

I don’t remember learning about Sojourner Truth in school. Maybe I did. Most likely I didn’t. History books tend to leave out people whose life and accomplis...

In third grade, I tried out for a community play. I earned the prestigious role of Mouse #3 in Cinderella, and for months, I diligently practiced my one line...

Here we go... 1. Quit moving to what’s next and celebrate what’s now. This year my illustrator and I were invited to the Ten Boom Museum in the Netherlands t...

When my daughter was five-years-old, instead of rolling Play-Doh into long strips and making snakes like generations of kids before her (hello, how much fun w...

Recently, I visited a group of readers via Skype. The girls and their moms asked ALL kinds of smarty pants questions about the next Gutsy Girl and with the r...

In case you have missed me yammering on in person in regard to this event or you haven’t seen the contents of two cardboard boxes of eclipse glasses tossed a...

Take my youngest daughter to the playground, and her agenda becomes clear. She is not interested in swinging or sliding or mastering the corkscrew-looking ap...

I grew up singing hymns from wooden pews. Boys sporting light blue, polo shirts in one row and girls in plaid skirts and knee socks in the row behind them. M...

Raise your hand if you want your kids to read more. Me too. Raise your hand if you want your children to read about real women of faith. Of course, who doesn...

Since I started researching the Ten Boom family for Gutsy Girls, I’ve dreamed of visiting their home in the Netherlands. Then when I found out the museum’s b...

Hey friends, You asked for an enrichment packet to accompany Gutsy Girls Book 3 on hymnist, Fanny Crosby, and it is here! The guide is perfect for the little...

Long ago in a land called 2014, my first book was published. An entire crew of people were involved and they rallied to throw a party and they made me cry. M...

Last Christmas Eve, I packed-up pancake mix, tossed the essentials for enchiladas in a cooler, and our family headed to Tennessee. No sparkle or shimmer. No ...

Some people hear about the prolific hymn writer, Fanny Crosby, and are impressed she wrote thousands of hymns despite being blind. And obviously writing thou...

When I hear of the young girl who lives in a camper, walks to a part-time job, and uses two weeks worth of wages to buy her brother’s school supplies, my thr...