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Two for Two

Two Special Offers In case you forgot, I’m personally making two things available to celebrate my new website and blog. And time is running out. You only have two days left to buy my book on Kindle for just $.99. (How many things can you get for less than a dollar?) This deal will only be [...]

I’d Like to Introduce . . .

My new website and blog – together at last! This blog that you are now reading actually appears on my website, so go ahead and click the Home tab and start perusing all the pages. My old site was a free one that I designed myself using free templates. All I can say is that [...]

Sometimes You Get What You Wish For (well, not exactly)

The last two Fridays, I bounded out of bed in the wee hours of dawn, which is not even close to my normal morning sit-on-the-side-of-the-bed-in-a-stupor-and-stare-into-the-closet routine. I ran to the window, fully expecting to see mounds of white stuff covering our yard. Only a light layer of frost greeted me. Not enough to have my [...]

Branding Myself

These days, writers don’t just write. Banish the image of an introverted novelist holed away in a mountain cabin for weeks at a time. Writers must build their platform by maintaining an online presence and engaging in social media. And they must participate in promoting and marketing not only their writing, but themselves. Kinda feels like selling your [...]

Stepping in to the Loneliness of Pain

There is a lot of pain in our world. That shouldn’t surprise me, but this week I’ve seen the ugly face of it up close. Pain has touched some of my friends. And I feel helpless. Just now I searched for images of hurting people, and everything I found showed someone in solitude. Extreme pain [...]

Getting My Money’s Worth

I love Christmas and I love everything (almost) about Christmas. The decorating, the anticipation, all those concerts and productions, baking Christmas cookies, even shopping can be fun. But I do not like taking it down and putting it away. I guess I like the fun, splashy, pretty part. Not the boring, utilitarian aftermath. Trimming a [...]

Post-Holiday Blahs

With so much build-up to Christmas, often when it’s over, the blahs set in for me. The break ends much too quickly and I have to return to the old grind, with a skinnier wallet and tighter waistband. I look back on Christmas 2012 as the Urgent Care Christmas. All the Richardson clan spent the [...]

What God Intends for Good

In one year, everything has changed for our friend Chester. This time last year, he wanted his life to end. Now his heart sings with joy indescribable. His life has purpose. It matters. Chester has lived inside San Quentin for close to 20 years, incarcerated for 50-years-to-life because of three robberies. The combined total amount [...]

It's a Mystery

Driving to work this morning, I heard a song on the radio that set my heart pondering the unfathomable mystery that is Christmas. The Eternal God, enthroned above the heavens, entered space and time for 33 years. The God of the Universe condescended to don human skin and walk on the earth he formed. The arms [...]

To Comfort All Who Mourn

Our world is dark with mourning. Our tears won’t stop. Parents and non-parents have ruptured hearts. Americans’ and non-Americans’ spirits are heavy. All of us grieve. The heart of the Great I Am grieves more than any of us. The heart of the One who created those precious lives lost in Connecticut and loved them [...]