I have an unusual combination of professional backgrounds: communications, marketing, and landscaping. Through that combination and my faith in Christ, I began speaking engagements and writing. On the personal side, my husband, Richard, and I are huge sports fans, and we’ve worked together for more than twenty years providing the radio broadcasts for high school football games (Richard does play-by-play and I do color commentary.) We’re crazy about the St. Louis Cardinals, the Memphis Redbirds, the Memphis Grizzlies and Arkansas college sports.

When we can get away, most of our trips are either to visit some of our eleven grandchildren, to catch a ballgame, or to visit some of our favorite state parks where we love to spend time hiking or canoeing. I love, love, love to cook. Almost every weekend you can find me in the kitchen baking bread or trying out a new recipe.

In 2016 I traveled to South Africa for my first mission trip, a trip that would serve as the major turning point in a gradual redirection of my life. Since that time, Richard and I have found ourselves situated in a new faith tradition. In this new place, we’ve discovered and embraced new opportunities to worship and to serve. These opportunities allow us a fresh means of reaching out much more inclusively beyond church doors and sanctuary walls, welcoming many who may have felt unwelcome in other church settings.

A variety of life experiences have left me uniquely burdened for those whose past contains “that thing” they’ve come to believe makes them an outcast. Things like divorce, addiction, abortion, prison, abuse, or any other kind of failure. If you struggle with anger, unforgiveness, or not believing you’re not good enough to please God, you pull at my heartstrings. My passion is to help you see that God has a plan for you, and God still wants to use you. He especially wants to use you, not just in spite of your circumstances or your past, but because of it.