So here we all are in the midst of sheltering at home, social distancing from each other, and for some full on quarantine. Some cities, states, provinces and countries are locked down. Across the planet so much of our lives have come to a standstill while we wait out...

Last week I took a day off from writing and went on a road trip with my camera, my first such outing since before Christmas. I spent sunrise on the southern Oregon coast then headed south into northern California. My goal was another beach about an hour and half away,...

Coming to bookstores near you, online and brick-and-mortar, September 1 2020, from Tyndale House Publishers. Designed by Libby Dykstra. North Carolina, 1793 Ian Cameron, a Boston cabinetmaker turned frontier trapper, has come to Mountain Laurel hoping to remake...

Crater Lake National Park is Oregon's only National Park. I first set eyes on this spectacular vista in 1991. I've lived near enough to it since 1993 to visit it often. Since I took up landscape photography a few years ago I've found my way to this rim view at least a...

I got the first niggles of inspiration for the story that would become Mountain Laurel, my upcoming September release, sometime toward the end of the 1990s. Though I'd opened a file and jotted some notes (first thing I always do when when I suspect the kernel of a new...

Thanks so much for sharing your favorite fictional settings in this week's book drawing. It's always fun to learn what appeals to other readers. Some of you mentioned books I need to check out, and others reminded me of past loves. Now for the 10 winners of a signed...

Some fictional settings intrigue. Others delight. Some are so compelling they become a part of your inner landscape. The stuff of daydreams. Maybe it's the characters that make the setting so appealing. It could be a culture (real or imagined) or a different time...

Have you thought about the Kingdom of God lately? Let me share a few quotes from a favorite book that explain in part why I love landscape photography, why it inspires me and delights my soul. "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the...

Just a note to remind anyone who hasn't signed up for the Frontier Faith & Fiction Newsletter... the first issue (Fall 2019) will be going out in just a couple of weeks, and in it will be good stuff you won't want to miss. Including: The drawing mentioned in a...

On Labor Day Brian and I took a day trip to the coast. By leaving at 3am we arrived at sunrise and got to experience one of my favorite things, sun rays streaming through the coastal forest. This time though I almost missed them. I was pressing on down the trail,...