Pages From My Journal

I am almost done my first full length novel! I am so excited I should finish by the end of the school year. I hope to have it edited and prepared to go to the Philadelphia Christian Writer's Conference this summer. The working title of this story is "Brick Walls." Here is the picture and back cover copy. Taylor Peterson decided to take off from work for the summer to spend time with her six year old daughter and make up for their past dreadful summers. But when her daughter lands in coma from an accident, she puts a wall in front of her eyes and refuses to see what God could possibly have in store. Blocking the world from view, she pushes away friends. But, with her husband coming home from the air force, she is forced to make a decision. God has given Jessica Hawkins incredible strength with dealing with an invisible illness that is stealing her breath. She has long sense barricaded her heart against other people in fear of hurting them. She looks forward to he...

Buy Captives on Amazon Title:   Captives  (The Safe Lands, book 1 of 3) - Safe Lands website: http://thesafelands.com Author: Jill Williamson -  www.jillwilliamson.com Genre:   YA Dystopian Here is the back cover copy: When eighteen-year-old Levi returned from Denver City with his latest scavenged finds, he never imagined he’d find his village of Glenrock decimated, loved ones killed, and many—including his fiancée, Jem—taken captive. Now alone, Levi is determined to rescue what remains of his people, even if it means entering the Safe Lands, a walled city that seems anything but safe. Omar knows he betrayed his brother by sending him away, but helping the enforcers was necessary. Living off the land and clinging to an outdated religion holds his village back. The Safe Lands has protected people since the plague decimated the world generations ago … and its rulers have promised power and wealth beyond Omar’s dreams. Meanwhile, their brother Mason h...

One hundred days ago … ·          My brother was eleven years old ·          My sister was eight years old ·          My indoor soccer team hadn’t started yet… which didn’t end any better than it started anyway : ) ·          My Great Poppop was alive ·          We hadn’t celebrated Good Friday or Easter yet ·          Garage sale season hadn’t started yet ·          My little sister was still sleeping in the pink bedroom down the hall ·          I still hadn’t gone to my first Union game ·          I was still waiting for Snow Camp to come ·          Runners were still...

Buy The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet on Amazon Title : The Revised Life of Ellie Sweet  Author: Stephanie Morrill  - http://www.stephaniemorrill.com/  - https://www.facebook.com/stephaniemorrill Publisher: Playlist Fiction Back Cover Copy:             Ellie Sweet is a lot of things—good girl, novelist, silent adorer of the new boy at school, Palmer. But when “outcast” gets added to the list, she decides it’s time to take reality into her own hands … and tweak it as needed. In the pages of her book, she’s Lady Gabrielle, favorite of the medieval Italian court. Her once-friends are reduced to catty ladies-in-waiting, and the too-charming Palmer—who in real life never spares her a second word—gets to be nothing more than a rake wracked by unrequited love for her. She even has a perfect real-life villain in the brooding Chase, who hails from the wrong side of town. But just when she’s getting alo...

I saw a video ad on Facebook of MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry giving her view of who is responsible for children.  She says in this video, “We have never invested as much in public education as we should have because we’ve always had a private notion of children, your kid is yours and totally your responsibility. We haven’t had a very collective notion these are our children. So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents or kids belong to their families and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everybody’s responsibility and not just the household’s then we start making better investments.” I find this very unsettling. I know that this is wrong. God gave the parents responsibility to raise the children that he gifted them. There is a time and place where families need help, and that’s were churches and communities—not the government—should step in.  What also struck me was that this ...