“For Ethel Campfield, with her can-do attitude, her good humor, and her energy, moving West with her family in 1908 should be an adventure and an opportunity to build a new life in the vast space of the prairies. She dreams of owning her own farm, cattle covering the slopes, and wheat waving in the wind. But when she arrives, it is nothing like she expects.”
New book in store now!
Recent Writings
Here’s what I’ve been working on in the past few weeks.
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Darkness to Light, Despair to Hope
The world has gone through 80 years of relative balance, where there were no world wars. There were regional ones, sure, and a lot of…
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Make hay while the sun shines
We all have dreams of things we’d like to accomplish: places we’d like to go, maybe a book we want to write, or a landscape…
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More Than Just Talk
In spending time with a woman who is in the last stages of cancer, I have had an opportunity to reflect. We sit together in…
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Redemption and the Road Ahead
In our modern evangelical, evangelistic vocabulary, the key word is “saved”, to get saved, to be saved. You hear it a lot. It’s like… we…
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
Oscar Wilde
Molly Deatherage 