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Happy New Year 2024. Have you chosen a word?

Out with the old and in with the new… I’ve never really related to this saying. I like my old boots. My old dog. My old friendships, although I did make some delightful new friends in 2023. But change has always unsettled me. The word I’ve chosen this year scares me too. Can you guess my word? Scott’s word is Impossible Prayers. Christian’s word is Grow. He’s twelve years old and hoping for a growth spurt. Garry James’ word is Self-Control. That’s a great word for a kid turning sixteen and driving soon. John, his girlfriend, Skye, and her sister, […]

By Paula January 9, 2024

Merry Christmas 2023 from our family to yours…

It’s the Christmas season. I love all the sparkling lights, the scent of pine, and a fire crackling in the hearth. Our house heater has been kaput for years. To replace it we’ll have to sell one of the boys, so we heat our home with only a wood-burning fireplace. Keeping the home fires burning is a thing. A hard and trying thing. Did I say it was hard and trying to keep a fire burning day and night during endless atmospheric rivers? The new year began with Scott flying round-the-clock search and rescue missions when the atmospheric rivers rolled […]

By Paula November 28, 2023

We Need Your Prayers for Baby Issac

We have been on a rollercoaster since last Thursday when baby Isaac was born to Lacy and Jake. He arrived three weeks early at 8 pounds 1 ounce and began having breathing problems soon after his birth. Issac was put in the NICU at our local hospital and things went downhill. By Saturday, he was shipped to UC Davis Children’s Hospital. During transport, they nearly lost him in the ambulance. Isaac arrived in Sacramento in critical condition. They did an emergency procedure to save his life, inserting a chest tube into his little body. The doctors didn’t know if he’d […]

By Paula October 2, 2023

Every Cover Tells A Story…

Every book cover tells a story. During the covid lockdown, I began writing River of Mercy, but the seed of the story had been germinating in my mind for years. In my 20s, I wrote feature stories for a daily newspaper. As a young reporter, I joined the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department to cover a story on boating safety. For a week in the late 1990s, I rode in the Sheriff’s speed boat patrolling the Sacramento River. I asked a thousand questions because reporters do that, and one answer haunted me. “Yes, there are bodies in the river in vehicles underwater […]

By Paula March 8, 2023

I’m Looking for a Launch Team…

Hi friends, I hope you are having a happy new year. California has been hit with a crazy amount of rain, such a blessing to end the drought, but stormy messes to clean up too. In the midst of all this wild weather, I’ve been wrapping up my new novel River of Mercy. It releases March 7th on Amazon! That is just around the corner, and there is still so much to do! Yikes! Many of you have joined me before on book launches. I appreciate your help so much! I won’t be using a private Facebook page for our […]

By Paula January 18, 2023

Merry Christmas 2022 from our family to yours…

This year for my birthday, we took family photos, recreating a photoshoot we loved from 2015. As you can see, the kids have grown up, and Scott and I are growing old. Life rolls on. The boys have shot up like the walnut trees we planted when they were little, and we are grandparents now, which brings us such joy. The birth of baby JJ this past February was very healing for our family. We so appreciate all your prayers and love and are so incredibly thankful God blessed Lacy and Jake with another baby boy after taking baby Benjamin […]

By Paula December 8, 2022

Hi friends… I’ve missed you.

As I age, I find I have less to say. I’ve been waiting to write this newsletter, hoping I could tell you when my next novel River of Mercy will be published, but I still don’t know. It’s been a year of rewriting and lots of walks in these dunes. We still live on our farm in the Sacramento Valley but escape to Ten Mile Beach above Fort Bragg, CA. whenever we can to enjoy the solitude. I love writing by the seashore. I just read that the greatest quality to instill in your children to ensure their success in […]

By Paula October 22, 2022