Carrie | March 30, 2010
On Thursday, March 25, 2010, Loren Cline passed on to be with the Lord. Loren was a week short of his eighty-third birthday. He was born in Little River, Kansas in 1927 and he died here in Newton, Kansas. I met Loren when I moved to Newton in 2002, but we made an immediate connection [...]
Carrie | March 29, 2010
Next Sunday is Easter. In most American congregations in most American denominations, it will be one of the best attended services of the year. In many, it will be THE best attended service of the year. It will also most likely be the best dressed service. Women all over the United States and in many [...]
Carrie | March 23, 2010
I seem to suffer some illness or injury every year that sidelines at least part of my creative energies. It almost always seems to be studio work that gets sidelined. This year, it’s a back sprain and it happened mid-morning yesterday. I bent over to move a large-ish pot of Easter lilies and knew before [...]
Carrie | March 22, 2010
“Now it was the custom at the Feast to release a prisoner whom the people requested. A man called Barabbas was in prison with the insurrectionists who had committed murder in the uprising. The crowd came up and asked Pilate to do for them what he usually did. “ ‘Do you want me to release [...]
Carrie | March 18, 2010
What a day! It seems I get one thing done and two or three more things appear. Between snowflakes, first drafts, second drafts, final drafts, online course work, oil paintings, colored pencil paintings, drawing classes and chicken noodle soup dinners, there doesn’t seem to be a spare moment! Whew! Writing has been moving forward briskly [...]
Carrie | March 15, 2010
I haven’t been doing much fiction writing lately, but that doesn’t mean I’ve been idle. Quite the contrary! A few weeks ago, I joined the American Christian Fiction Writers. If you are a writer, want to be a writer or are learning to be a writer, I recommend this organization very highly. The archived workshops [...]
Carrie | March 4, 2010
After several days of dedicated prayer and a day of fasting, I’ve decided to give Saving Grace a sabbatical and myself a much needed break. The questions that prompted that decision still need to be answered, but they are no longer dominant. In their place is a quietness of mind that lets me know it’s [...]
Carrie | March 1, 2010
That day when evening came, he said to his disciples, “Let us go over to the other side.” Leaving the crowd behind, they took him along, just as he was, in the boat. There were also other boats with him. A furious squall came up, and the waves broke over the boat, so that it [...]
I've been an avid looker-at of books since I was old enough to sit on her lap and listen to the stories she read.
The oldest complete manuscript I have was written when I was in the eighth grade.
Throughout grade school and high school, I read every horse story I could get my hands on. Walter Farley was a huge favorite and I still enjoy reading the adventures of the Black Stallion and Flame and all the rest. But Marguerite Henry, C. W. Anderson, Thomas Hinkle and anyone else who wrote a story about a horse was on my to-read list. I couldn't get enough of them.
Then I found Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and discovered another world; the world of mysteries!
More recently Dick Francis has combined my love of horse stories with my love of mysteries with his series of books.
In the early part of this century, I was introduced to the world of Christian fiction and in July of 2008, I took my first ever writing workshop. The workshop covered several aspects of writing from a Christian worldview and an entirely new vista opened before me.
I am, as yet, unpublished. I write every day, maintain painting and writing blogs, painting journals, writing journals and a number of other writing endeavors. Along with other members of my church family, I've written devotions for Advent and Lenten devotional booklets. For a time, I wrote a monthly column for the Newton Kansan newspaper.
I still enjoy a good horse story but I also enjoy a good mystery or cozy mystery, suspense and a little bit of action here and there, as well as literary works. I hope, Lord willing, to try my hand at each of those genres.
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