I struggle composing professional biographies. It’s like someone asking that age-old question, “Who am I?” And I’m supposed to sum me up in a few hundred just-right words.

Where do I begin? Do I weave an “It was a dark and stormy night” story and hope to hold your attention with a fun-but-fictionalized account of my life? Or do I start with who I am now, with occasional glimpses of who I was long, long ago?

I’m a woman who has come to the end of herself and found God waiting there, offering me a grace. To this day, I don’t fully understand his favor, kindness and love towards me. But I breathe easier when I stand in the wide-open spaces of his grace (Romans 5:2, The Message).

I always said I would never want to marry a doctor, or anyone in the military. Don’t you know I fell in love with a handsome, blue-eyed man who went on to serve for 24 years as an Air Force physician?

We have four wonderful children—and a new daughter-in-love. For so many reasons, I am who I am today because I am a mom. God used my son and daughters to change me. And they have taught me more about forgiveness than anyone else.

I am a writer. When I sit in front of my computer, wrestling an article into submission, looking for just the right word, struggling to get what’s in my heart poured out onto paper, I am being who God created me to be.

My goal is to write honestly. My desire is to encourage. Writers are told to write what they know. For me that means chronicling what I live. So, I tell my readers about being a woman, a wife, a mom. I write about relationships because relationships are the most important thing to me.

Because this is a professional bio, here are some of my writing credentials:

• I earned a BA in journalism, which means I like to write tight!
• I am the editor of Connections, the leadership magazine of MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers International).
• I’ve been published in Moody Monthly, Discipleship Journal, MomSense, Today’s Christian Woman, The Christian Communicator, Crosswalk.com, DabblingMum.com and InspiredMom.com.
• My first book, Baby Changes Everything: Embracing and Preparing for Motherhood after 35 was published by Revell on August 1, 2007.
• For 15 years, I taught women’s Bible studies and spoke at retreats. My surprise pregnancy at 41 (that’s why I wrote the book!) took me away from that for a while. But I’m back at it again—and enjoy speaking at women’s conferences.

Enough about me.

Not to us, O LORD, not to us
but to your name be the glory,
because of your love and faithfulness.
Psalm 115:1 (NIV)

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