Saving Scotland

While doing research for Emma’s Quest on St. Andrews and Dundee, Scotland, I stumbled upon the history of the Recording Scotland Collection. Since my father was an artist from Dundee, I loved learning about the heroic efforts of British artists during World War II to...

Trouble Aboard

“When a gentle southerly breeze came up, they weighed anchor, thinking it would be smooth sailing. But they were no sooner out to sea than a gale-force wind, the infamous nor’ easter, struck. They lost all control of the ship. It was a cork in the storm.” —Acts...

The House God Builds

I read a story of a carpenter who told his boss he was ready to retire and spend time with his wife and family. His boss was saddened because this man had been a good, reliable employee for many years. He asked the carpenter if he would do him a favor and build one...

Mirror Mirror on the Wall

A few weeks ago, a female cardinal began attacking her reflection in the glass of one of our porch doors. She would come several times daily, sit on our table umbrella, and throw herself repeatedly against the window. Next, she’d hop onto the door handle and peck the...

The Good Part

“Clocks were created to make us the stewards of our time but sometimes end up making us nervous.” –Calvin Miller An Irish proverb asserts, “When God made time, he made plenty of it.” Still, the incessant ticking of the clock as I write my first 2023 Hub devotion...

Simply as I see it

Our Banner Yet Waves

“Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities, to be obedient,  to be ready to do whatever is good.” —Titus 3:1, NIV On September 14, 1814, Maryland lawyer, Francis Scott Key stood on the deck of a ship and witnessed the British bombardment of...

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Tina Yeager

Tina Yeager

Award-winning Florida author, speaker, life coach, and licensed therapist, Tina Yeager, was born in Macomb, Illinois. “After an ice storm, my mother allegedly told my father, ‘I'm moving to Florida and taking the kids. Are you coming?’ I doubt my parents made such a...

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Susan U Neal

Susan U Neal

Healthy Living author and certified health and wellness coach, Susan U. Neal, was born in Brookesville, Florida and raised in San Antonio, Florida (not Texas). In a town of less than 500 people, she grew up riding horses and swimming in freshwater ponds. She’s truly a...

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Larry J Leech II

Larry J Leech II

Although books by Author, Larry J Leech II line bookstore shelves, you’ll only find his name on a few of them. Larry is a ghostwriter by day, typically writing memoirs, and by night, he enjoys writing suspense thrillers—’cause he ain’t afraid...

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Love Note #41

Love Note #41

“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV

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DiAne Gates

DiAne Gates

I’m sure Florida-born Author, DiAne Gates was told on more than one occasion not to get sand in the house, so instead, this sun-n-sand kinda gal put her house in the sand. The first thirty-five years of her life, DiAne lived twenty minutes from the beach....

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Beth Duewel

Beth Duewel

Ohio author, speaker, and blogger, Beth Duewel always wanted to be a writer but as a young and impressionable girl chose a different life path.  While a junior in high school, she job shadowed a journalist at the newspaper where her father worked. Her...

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Deborah Sprinkle

Deborah Sprinkle

Missouri-born, Tennessee author Deborah Sprinkle is not saying it’s genetic, but she cut her eye teeth on mysteries. Because her mom loved a good mystery book, Deborah grew up on a steady diet of Nancy Drew, Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers, Mary Roberts...

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Crickett Keeth

Crickett Keeth

Tennessee author, Crickett Keeth was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. While in her twenties, her given name, Janene, fell by the wayside. Because she was “little and bouncy,” she reminded her fellow Campus Crusade for Christ staffers of Jiminy Cricket, and the...

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Blue Ridge Appreciation

May 2019 marked my seventh year at the Blue Ridge Mountains Christian Writer’s Conference in Ridgecrest, North Carolina. It NEVER disappoints. Each year, after a multitude of hugs from old and new friends alike, I bid Blue Ridge farewell and descend the mountain with...

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