This was first shared at the HTC Women Casual Christmas Cookies and Cocoa event, December 2023 I was ten years old when Christmas bottomed out for our family. Although we didn’t give our situation a name at the time, alcoholism was destroying our lives one sip and forgotten promise at a time. The tension was…
I’ve felt the nudge to do this for awhile but the timing always felt off. Honestly, I’m in the middle of cranking out a few thousand words a week with my new series, and that takes time. But this is important. I try in my writing and appearances to model the life of a Christ…
My Story Excerpts from my Memoir “Mom, you should write your story . . . about how you broke the cycle of alcohol addiction in your family. You’re the transition generation,” my daughter, Melanie, said. “It’d be too painful.” Yet, I was between writing projects. Maybe I’ll give her suggestion a try….
It was a dark and stormy night. Not literally. The sky was clear. We could see for miles. However, the inside of the van was alive with lightning and thunder. As difficult as it is to admit, my husband and I were supposedly fighting for our family but there we were again trying to…
Julie’s note: Jean Ann Williams is my guest blogger today sharing her surrender story. I think you will be encouraged and inspired. I was! So many of my struggles with insecurity stem from my childhood when my mother began the decent into mental illness. As the eldest child and only ten years old, it fell…
Each year I have fun looking back at the books I’ve read and choosing a favorite. Earlier this week I shared the favorite fiction and non fiction books I read for 2014. Today I share a book I reviewed this year, but it was released in late 2013. I wasn’t sure what it was about…