by Olivia | Dec 16, 2021 | Books in Process, Tree of Life, Uncategorized
Thank you for your encouragement to bring this book into being! Now That I Know You happened because so many of you took the time to drop me an email or a message on Facebook asking when the next book in the Tree of Life series would come out. Your enthusiasm stirred...
by Olivia | Jun 30, 2021 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
I don’t know about where you live, but where I live, it seemed like we waited an unfair length of time this year to truly get past that last blast of winter. Some of my flowers paid the price. We had the promises of spring, the onslaught of more winter, rinse...
by Olivia | Apr 17, 2021 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
Lately in the mornings, when I come downstairs and push open the living room curtains to greet the day, I realize an instant too late that chickadees or sparrows or wrens or even an occasional grosbeak were breakfasting at the feeder outside the picture window, and my...
by Olivia | Mar 11, 2021 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
This is my peace lily. It lives just outside my office. I wish I had a better picture. But it’s been blooming for quite some time and it’s about to be finished for this time around, so it looks bedraggled. (True confession: I am also not a very good...
by Olivia | Feb 1, 2021 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
A few years ago I wrote a post about how my mother’s advice about New Year’s resolutions was that, “A year is a very long commitment. I think I’ll just start with tomorrow.” I remind myself of that often when I feel overwhelmed of my own expectations for myself. I...
by Olivia | Jan 3, 2021 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
For years I’ve arranged my schedule to take a break between Christmas and New Year’s. It started when my kids were young and I tried to coordinate time off from my job in an office with their school breaks. Later I ran a full-time free lance business for a few years...
by Olivia | Nov 17, 2020 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
Some of you who have been reading the blog or seen occasional chatter on Facebook are aware that several years ago I began a season of disabling migraine that led to a diagnosis of chronic migraine disease. I wrote about it a couple of times, for instance here. Along...
by Olivia | Nov 1, 2020 | Tree of Life, Uncategorized
What You Said to Me! Book 4 in the Tree of Life series has released! When 15-year-old Tisha Crowder gets caught shoplifting, attorney Nolan Duffy tries to protect her from consequences that could rattle her already troubled life. His daughter, Jillian, feels like...
by Olivia | Oct 14, 2020 | Books in Process, Tree of Life
Welcome to the Christian Fiction Scavenger Hunt! If you’ve just discovered the hunt, be sure to start at Stop #1, and collect the clues through all the stops, in order, so you can enter to win one of our top 5 grand prizes! • The hunt BEGINS on 10/15 at noon MST with...
by Olivia | Aug 3, 2020 | Lens on Life, Uncategorized
How are you hanging on? You’ve probably heard variations on that question these last few months! I know I have. Whether you’re still hunkering down at home most of the time or have gone back to work, whether you’re ordering groceries or venturing forth into stores,...
