Six Ways My Entrepreneur Husband’s Helped My Authorship
The past month, the biggest step my husband and I’ve taken to simplifying our lifestyle is that we’ve sold our outlet grocery store to two members of our family. We still own the building at this point and time, so my husband’s
Anchored With Love
My husband led the pack, and I followed. My younger brother was sandwiched between us and our parents. We hugged the bike path that ran parallel with traffic. The ocean flowed on the left; closed ice-cream shops and bakeries with
Writing To My Own Beat
The little girls could have been twins with their ruffled peach skirts and delicate, egg-shell bows eclipsing gold-brown ringlets. Their movements on the rustic floor were not rehearsed or even in rhythm. And yet, their dance was far more beautiful for
Embracing Change
Yesterday, our outlet grocery store changed hands. That 11,000 square foot building housed our apartment that was our first love nest. It was where I burned cornbread and pea soup exploded onto the ceiling. Where my poor husband first witnessed my
You Know You’re a First-Time Parent When…
Seventeen months ago, I wrote a post entitled, “You Know You’re Taking Advantage of Your Pregnancy When . . .” This week is my daughter's first birthday (we've made it!), so it seems fitting to write a continuation called: “You Know You’re
Q & A with Owner of Miller’s Amish Country Store & Cookbook Giveaway
Today I get the privilege of introducing you to my mother, Beverly Anne Miller: the cutest character you will ever meet and the owner of Miller's Amish Country Store, which is a setting in my debut novel, The Outcast. I used to
A Wife First, A Mother Second
This week, I joked with my friend that babies have the ability to tear a marriage apart and put it back together all in the same day. Though “tear apart” may be too dramatic a phrase, my flippant adage would
A Peek at My Publishing Process — deadlines, teething children, kapp hunting and all!
This week, I'm honored to be hosted on Tyndale House's blog about the past eight months since I began the publishing journey with The Outcast ~ my modern retelling of The Scarlet Letter! My excerpt from their blog: The morning of my conference call with Tyndale,
Learning From Little Women
This weekend, my poor husband's been sick. Friday night, bored—and slightly bummed we weren’t out on a date—I broke my new TV rule, sat on the couch, ate yogurt, and watched Little Women while the rest of the Petersheim household slept. I have
A Simple Way of Living
Years ago, when my husband and I were dating, we went to a reenactment at Land Between the Lakes. It was a warm fall day, and I remember how the sun kindled in my boyfriend’s day-old beard, setting the short