We started out horribly late this morning for church, due in large part to the fact that neither of us realized we needed to buy fuel. The gas station is on the way to church but it still takes time to get it. We reached Ngarama at the time when the service was supposed to […]
A few weeks ago I posted about the dry season here in Africa. This last dry season was long and very dry. Longer than normal, though not as long as they had last year when there was a severe drought and famine. Each season has its benefits. Dry season? The weather is predictable. It will […]
Finally! As promised! The pasta sauce recipe I use! This sauce is delicious. I eat a little pasta with my sauce if I can get away with it. I got this recipe from Sandy Panagos years ago in a cookbook she helped put together for me as a wedding present. Pasta Sauce 3T oil 2 […]
Shopping in Africa is nothing like shopping in the US. It was one of the most frightening things about coming here. Where do people shop? What do they buy? Are the grocery stores anything like the ones in America? With six kids, we look for ways to get food as inexpensively as possible. When we […]
One of my favorite books is called A Tangled Web by L.M. Montgomery. It tells the story of a family, any of whom could receive a priceless heirloom based on the decisions they make in the year following the reading of the family matriarch’s will. The decisions that follow are sweet, funny, and sad. In […]
Another important part of a story is the setting, or where a story takes place. The setting in Talents is just as important as the plot and characters. It’s part of what drives the story. Lincoln Square is a fictional city based on the real life area in which I grew up. We lived blocks […]
My novel releases on Friday and I thought I’d use the next couple days to share the “behind the scenes” of how the book came into being. Ideas come in all shapes and sizes, but this one was more than two years in the making. When you plan a book as an author, you plan […]
One of my favorite services here in Uganda is our baptism/wedding service. We have a huge gathering of all four churches together. There are usually over 200 adults and around that many children. We sing all the best Swahili songs. The church choirs sing specials. We have preaching, then the baptisms, then the weddings. We […]
In order to get a driver’s license in Uganda, you have to attend driving school. Consequently, our town has quite a few driving schools. They drive in circles on the roads near our house because there isn’t much vehicle traffic there (well, there is once you get the cars from four or five driving schools […]
It is with great excitement and deepest pleasure that I reveal to you… The Cover of My Novel!!!!! Release date set for July 28! Can you tell I’m excited?! Did I use enough exclamation points?!