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When you need to start again…

We spent yesterday with our granddaughters Kara and Abby. The girls love the farm. Getting the eggs is one of Kara’s favorite things but she always breaks one and then cries. It reminds me that God let’s us break things so we learn how to live more gently. I know Kara probably will break an egg or two but I let her gather them and carry them so she learns they are fragile. So she learns to be careful and patient with her eggs. I clean her up and we start again. If something is broken in your life clean […]

By Paula January 9, 2020

What’s your word for 2020?

Each new year our family chooses a word to guide us through the year. Then we walk down to our ravine and find rocks to write our words on. We carry our rocks home and put them on our fireplace mantel to remind us of what we want God to help us with in the coming months. Sometimes I know my word by December. Other years, on New Year’s Day in the ravine my word solidifies. Usually, two or three words hover in my thoughts for a while. Last year my word–well two words, really– was dream big. And a […]

By Paula January 1, 2020

Merry Christmas 2019 from our family to yours…

Every November I sit down to write our Christmas letter. Some years are good, some not so good, but God is always good. 2019 was full of joy and sorrow. A wedding, new grandbabies, and too many funerals of friends we loved. But let’s start with sweet joy… Jake and Lacy welcomed baby Lily in February and baby Abby joined big sister Kara and Cami and Drew in July. Lacy graduated from nursing school with Lily in her arms in April and now is an emergency room nurse at Adventist Hospital in Marysville. Luke and Alex married in September in […]

By Paula November 22, 2019

Excited to share a new novel with you in 2020…

I’m working on a new novel… actually an old novel… but a story I’m rewriting for publication. This book won honorable mention in a California Writers Club contest, landed me my first literary agent, and got me a movie option in the 1990s. I still think this story would make a great film. I first wrote Leaving Lonesome when I was a young military wife with a husband helicopter pilot. Scott flew with a lot of Vietnam vets. The top photo is Scott in a helicopter twenty years ago. The baby-faced crew chief on Scott’s left is Jeff Ratkovich. Funny […]

By Paula October 17, 2019

When dreams open your eyes to the truth…

I had a dream a week ago that rocked me. It really was about rocks. I was on a rocky island in the middle of a raging ocean. All alone and knowing I would die there if something didn’t change. Then, out of the blue, my dad swam up with two inner tubes, the old kind of inner tubes we used when I was a kid at the lake with my family. Large rubber tire inner tubes. Dad told me to get on the tube, that he would take me to shore. Suddenly beyond my dad, I spotted another little […]

By Paula September 10, 2019

Preorder Farming Grace now…

I never meant to write a memoir. Just like I never meant to return to a life of farming. But God had other ideas. I know. Some of you are thinking, how do you know what God is thinking? How do you know what God wants you to do? For years I didn’t know. I went to church every Sunday but had no idea what God was thinking. God was more of a mystical idea than a loving Father in heaven. I put more faith in my horoscope than I did in Jesus. And then, ten years into my marriage, […]

By Paula August 1, 2019

I’m Looking for a Book Launch Team, would you like to join in the fun?

I’ve never put together a book launch team before. I’ve never really done a book launch, though I’ve published four books thus far. With my previous novels, I just put them on Amazon and hoped for the best. But I’m working with an author coach now, the amazing Alice. She’s kind of like a football coach (but a lot more gentle and prettier too), and instead of learning football plays, I’m learning how to be a real author. If you’d like to be on my book launch team, I will send you a free ebook soon of Farming Grace. There […]

By Paula July 9, 2019