When Rachel Dunaway invited me to spend an hour with her creative writing class at Nashville’s Donelson Christian Academy, I was ecstatic. I read her email while shuffling through Atlanta’s Hartsfield Jackson International Airport, and I know I scared my fellow travelers.

I squealed.

It echoed through cavernous Concourse A.

People stared.Continue Reading

Make a Memory is a movement, a challenge to turn I wish I had into I’m glad I did in 2015.

Reach out and claim an adventure this year. Make a Memory before it’s too late.

Signe Pike is a gracious, gifted writer. And I was lucky when she agreed to edit To Live Forever: An Afterlife Journey of Meriwether Lewis. If you enjoyed that book, you can thank Signe. She was tough and unflappable. I know her debut novel will be a gem, and I can’t wait to read it.

She submitted the following memory. I know it will inspire you. Maybe with a smile, a tear or both.Continue Reading