by Sara | Jul 3, 2018 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Uncategorized
It’s finally here. This book is happening, guys. It has a cover, a release date, a blurb, an editor, alpha and betas, a formatter, and an awesome potential foreword writer. And today, at last, I get to share some of these things with you! (alas, not all) Keeping...
by Sara | Jun 25, 2018 | Book News & Recs, Uncategorized
When I was writing my book He’s Making Diamonds, I realized how much songs had influenced my thoughts and journey of faith through chronic illness. In each season there were songs that would become my anthems. Songs I would listen to when depression or anxiety...
by Sara | Jun 19, 2018 | Living With Health Challenges, Mental Struggles, Uncategorized
Wow is it hard to find clean comedies, y’all! Not to mention well-done ones. Anyone agreed? Whoa, whoa, not everyone at once, people. 😉 For the past few months my doctor has limited me to watching comedies, and I’ve discovered that they can be difficult to...
by Sara | Jun 13, 2018 | Uncategorized
Hey. How have you been? (Seriously, I want to know, comment below!) I finally decided to give up on crafting a well thought out blog post for you this week and to just let you know what’s been on my heart. First, I finished the 4th edit of He’s Making...
by Sara | Jun 4, 2018 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness
A friend asked me how I was. How I really was. People had been asking me that for days, but I just didn’t know how to answer them, because I honestly had no idea how I was. I just couldn’t seem to sort it out. But I finally just decided to start typing in...
by Sara | May 28, 2018 | Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Uncategorized
I have a confession to make: there’s something I’ve been avoiding talking about on this blog. You see, in the last month or so, my health has hit the point where I finally feel like I’m glimpsing the light at the end of the tunnel. At first, I was...
by Sara | May 22, 2018 | Uncategorized
It turns out that getting back into writing after not being able to for a few months is harder than I had hoped. (I may or may not have also used this week’s mental spoons for working on my book and the magazine I write for instead 😉 ). So while I do not have a...
by Sara | May 14, 2018 | Loving Someone With Health Challenges, Uncategorized
Dear Mama, I love you so much. You are the best mom in the whole world. You are so amazing. You’re so strong, so wise, so courageous, and an example to all of us of what a woman of God looks like. Especially to me. You’ve been taking care of me ever since...
by Sara | May 7, 2018 | Book News & Recs, Faith in God in Chronic Illness, Uncategorized
As I am in the process (at the time of this writing) of editing my book He’s Making Diamonds: A Teen’s Thoughts on Faith Through Chronic Illness, I’m realizing more and more exactly what this book is… and more than that, what it isn’t....
by Sara | Apr 30, 2018 | Toxic Mold Poisoning
It would have been better if our house burned down. For so many reasons. You see, our house was contaminated by toxic black mold. By the time we realized it was there, I was really, really sick (still am, actually, but that’s another story). So here’s the...
