“Are you pregnant yet?” If anyone else had outright asked this of me I would have recoiled. But when he asked, when the Italian patriarch of the family looked me in the eye and asked this blunt question, I could only answer with a smile. “Not yet, Don.”  “Why not?” “We JUST got married, like […]

“Ready to go?” said Brian. “Yup.” I replied. Stepping onto the truck’s foot rail, I grabbed the “Oh SH**” handle and swung myself into the passenger seat. This old flatbed truck, a gift to Dogwood, the first real miracle for the ranch. Never mind that when I used it to feed the horses I had […]

“…The lonely he makes part of a family…” Psalm 68:6 TPT “You’re going where?” A flabbergasted me asked. “To Missouri.”replied my friend Marc. “Missouri…Why the heck would you go to Missouri?” the California in me could not comprehend why anyone would choose to spend a month of their summer anywhere BUT California. “My friends are […]

    I’ve been MIA lately and figured it was time to give a litte update ;-). A couple weeks ago I was able to spend some time with my Dogwood family.  Every trip to MO. is truly a trip home for me and this trip was exactly that.  I was able catch up, fit […]