I guess this is the place where I'm supposed to post a professional-sounding bio, impressing you with my writing resume and dazzling you with my credentials. And that's what I had in this space - at first.

Then I got to thinking.

When you're sitting around in your pajamas all day pecking away at a keyboard, drinking tea and listening to Glenn Beck, your family doesn't care that you've won an Evangelical Press Association award, that you write three monthly columns, or that you have dozens of writing credits on your resume. My dog just wants someone to play catch. My daughter wants me to transfer money to her account, and my husband would be impressed if I just got dressed every day.

So let's do this. If you really want to read my writing resume, check out my website by clicking here. You can also visit my blog and my website.

But here are the highlights:

I'm the Christian music blogger at Beliefnet.com.

I'm the managing editor at NewChristianVoices.com, a new humor website with a focus on outside the box takes on life and faith from columnists Brad Stine, Taylor Mason, Martha Bolton, Caron Guillo and Teresa Roberts Logan.

I write a monthly slice of life column in the Christian Voice Magazine and a monthly entertainment column for the Christian Examiner newspapers and the Ozarks Christian News.

In addition to the other brilliant ideas swarming around my brain, I'm working on a dogvotional called All I Need To Know About Faith I Learned From My Dog. (What's a dogvotional? A word I made up with help from Tim Bete - or did Tim make it up? I forget. You know how brainstorming sessions go - to describe the inspirational and humorous dog stories I write that share a spiritual insight by drawing a parallel between the dog/master relationship and the man/God relationship.) I've got my writing group, The Inkspots and Coffee Grounds group, forcing me to keep writing. With any luck, I'll finish it before the next Presidential election.

Let me leave you with this one last thing. I'm an advocate for Compassion International. If you've never heard of Compassion, ask me about child sponsorship ~ the life you change may be your own.



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