This is where I’ve gathered my stories—the ones that made me laugh, the ones that made me cry, and the ones that left me scratching my head.
Some are simple. Some are hard. All of them are mine.
Stories matter because they happened. They teach us about ourselves. They give shape to lived experiences and help us see more clearly backward than we could when we were looking forward.
On October 22, 2024, Candace Lierd, aka Candace Rivera, was sentenced to a minimum of three years in prison. I was sitting in the courtroom with dozens of her victims who listened as the judge told Candace she was tone-deaf when it came to any remorse for her victims, including her teenage son. When Judge […]
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When I started writing my book, Devotion Deception Deliverance—Isaac’s Story, I spent a lot of time stuck. I had been a writer for years and loved it. But this project was different. I spent three and a half years interviewing, researching, and taking notes, and now it was time to bring them all together. I […]
These past nearly ten months have undoubtedly been a rollercoaster of emotions. Negativity permeates almost everywhere we look. Division in families and friendships is at an all-time high. School students wonder if their academic lives will ever get back to normal. Civil unrest, and worse, is constantly in the news and on social media threads. […]
For ten months, dates and benchmarks for returning things to normal were set, and when those criteria came and went without any glimpse of normalcy, new ones were established. The pattern continues like the cool-water mirage that disappears each time the thirsty man gets close. With each new battle, the angry war of words raged, […]