Peering Through Life's Window

  There’s more to Treading Water: Barely above Water , than the sweet, contemporary romance. While a young man and woman work through their reasons for not getting serious about anyone, readers enjoy a fun rag-tag swim team and learn about new treatments for a little-understood malady.  Like Suzie, the heroine, in Treading Water , I’m a victim of chronic Lyme disease. Over the years, I’ve learned there’s little interest in the illness. My journey began in a physician’s office where I had one month of testing before I was told, “You have something foreign in your system, but we can’t treat you because we can’t diagnose your problem.” And, that was that—until God led me  to an alternative doctor, David G. Lee, D.C., PhD., CAd . I’m blessed, Dr. Lee has kept me on my feet and active. Still, I’m constantly searching for promising breakthroughs. One day, I found a couple. Unfortunately, the news made no headlines. I pondered updating  Barely above Water, a novel I ...

  Hats... Horns... Congratulations, Sonja!

 Seeing the big yellow buses rumble through my neighborhood picking up children waiting at their stops took me back in time to when my daughter attended school. I recalled a popular, spiritual piece of jewelry kids wore in the nineties -- WWJD bracelets. The acronym stood for What Would Jesus Do?  Some youngsters stacked them up their arms. When they went to school, sports arenas or friends' homes, the bracelets kept Jesus' teachings close to them. For instance, if one of the young men found himself in a situation where he grew angry and wanted to punch someone in the nose, he had a bracelet to remind him that Christians should be “…quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.” (James 1: 19 - 20).    Perhaps one of the young ladies heard gossip about a friend. A bracelet she wore might have Scripture from James 1:26: “If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep ...