Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

I write about true-life type things.

This last year... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.

Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.

Friends don't get jealous of each other or begrudge the other for finding success. They celebrate every victory together.