My writing career spans almost 30 years and has included newspaper journalism, advertising, public relations, marketing (print and interactive), magazine features and blogging. Below is just a small sample of what I have written. I am in the process of scanning other materials and adding to this online portfolio. If you are looking for something specific and don't see an example of it here, please ask!
Popular songs like to remind us that "yesterday's gone" and so "don't look back." Yes, trying to move forward while focused on the rearview mirror of the pas...
Wait patiently for the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord. - Psalm 27:14 Put yourself in the mind of a child for a mom...
I stared at the doctor, mouth somewhat agape, I’m sure, as she gave me the news. “Well, there it is. You have inflammatory (rheumatoid) arthritis. Now what w...
How do you look at the “Oreo” of your life? Do you try and take it all in with one bite and feel “crunched”? Or do you take the time to enjoy licking the yum...
(click link for full text) Tears say “I need.” From the moment we are born, we need. We need food. We need clothing and shelter. We need comfort and care ...
Everyone gets lonely sometimes. Some of us are better at it than others. When life gets stressful, I can find a million and one reasons for being lonely, and...
“You know, everything would be better if I could just be king of the world,” my husband said with a little grin and a twinkle in his eye. Ah yes, we all thi...
It was a first for me. I was not one of those people with “dentist phobia.” Growing up, our family dentist was also our family friend. I had my teeth filled ...
It was a rough night. I tossed and turned, unable to get comfortable. My head was aching and my heart was pounding, as the thoughts continued to whirl around...
It is day three of Houston's Great Flood of 2016. The TV newscasts look the same. Picture upon picture, video upon video, of water. Everywhere. In the street...
Midlife. It’s pretty much what it’s cracked up to be. Lines and wrinkles? Ugh! Gray hair? Quick, get the Clairol! And those hips and midriff? Uh, yeah, let’s...
It was a hot day, even for October. As the temperature rose into the upper 80s, Rich Reaves, the youth pastor at Houston’s Lifepath Church, looked across the...
Recently, I was awakened in the middle of the night by what sounded like pebbles being thrown at my bedroom window. When I looked outside, I saw that it wasn...
I hadn’t looked at my high school yearbooks in years. There was no need. That was then. This is now. I had moved on. Or so I thought. As I reached up into t...
Most people can’t say their town was simultaneously put on the map and almost wiped off it in the same day. Yet that’s just what happened to the tiny communi...
I had lunch on my patio today. As I sat down at the table, I instantly felt relaxed. I basked in the warmth of the sunshine, which was offset by a cool breez...
It’s Friday night, and Season’s Harvest Café in Cypress, Texas, is bustling. Dust from the gravel driveway creates a cloud that sparkles in the headlights of...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once famously noted that “the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning.” Nearly 50 years lat...
Can you imagine what it must be like to attend a royal dinner party? If it were me, I would feel pretty intimidated. Questions would swirl through my mind li...
