Perhaps it isn’t strange that I’ve wanted to be a writer ever since I was a little girl because I have published writers on both sides of my family, as well as an older sister who is a published writer. The first story I wrote as an adult was published in 1981 in a children’s Sunday School paper (see Through the Years Scrapbook).
Since then my work has been published more than eighty times in magazine such as Guideposts, The Upper Room, The Secret Place, New Man, Christian Home, and many other Christian periodicals. In 2014 I published Homespun Faith, Reflections From the Seasons of Life, an autobiographical compilation of devotionals that I’ve written through the years, another dream fulfilled. In 2022 I finished publishing the Sarah’s Legacy series, a four-book Christian historical fiction series, set in Sandy Lake, Pennsylvania, and Diary of a Series, the story behind the Sarah’s Legacy series. Since then, I’ve completed Homespun Faith, The Rest of the Story, Volumes One and Two, autobiographical compilations of my blogs from 2016 through 2023. I love sharing my Homespun Faith journey and doing book signings.
In addition to writing and speaking, I did counseling for many years as a Pastoral Counselor, certified with the National Christian Counselors Association and ordained by the National Conservative Christian Church as a Minister of Counseling.
My husband, Donn, and I have been married more than 50 years and served as missionaries in Japan with One Mission Society for a total of four years, besides five other short-term mission trips to Japan, between 2001-2011.
We have three wonderful children (one of whom is in heaven), six counting spouses, and six gorgeous grandchildren, eight counting spouses, and live in Greenville, Pennsylvania. I’ve lived in Pennsylvania most of my married life but was raised in Grantsville, Maryland.
