I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it's been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I've seen modeled in my family - my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.

God has blessed me with the gift of cheerfulness.

Nowhere else have I grown more in my faith than in the midst of my family.

I'm a very girlie girl, but I often find the heroes of my books trying to take over the story. In truth, I enjoy writing the male point of view more than any other.

I've been blessed with so many wonderful women friends throughout my life.

I think perfect happiness has everything to do with learning to be content with what I have.