Given I’ve spent the past thirty years serving in various places as a Lutheran pastor it seems there should be a few faith-based articles. I’ve written about cults (Scope), raising generous children (Giving), passing on the faith (Scope), the Hobbit approach to gift-giving (Alive Now), and child-like faith (Today’s Christian Parent).

I got my start in freelance writing selling articles about our everyday lives as young, usually broke, parents of little girls who also moved around a lot for jobs. Writers are advised to write about what they know about. For me that was helping the girls settle into new situations (Living with Children); dining out with babies and pre-schoolers (Mothers’ Manual); getting dinner on the table every night (American Baby); and traveling with toddlers in […]

One of the delights and challenges of being a writer is that nearly anything in life becomes an idea for an article. Here I wrote about why I collect antiques (House Beautiful); Vacation Farms as a family vacation idea and places in Central Ohio to camp inexpensively (Columbus Monthly); how to find time/places to hide away to focus on writing (Writer’s Digest); and why do we have to reset our clocks twice a year (Columbus […]

I meet so many amazing people in my travels. Here I got to write about an amazing German woman who befriended a Latino family and started a three-generational legacy; a young med student who finally got to meet her birth mother when she needed to know her medical history for her studies; a ninety-year-young woman named Mother of the Year; and a miracle woman who survived a fall that resulted in a broken neck. These […]

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