I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

Courage, like so many other things, was not something one did or didn't have it was a decision, a choice.

Everything worth doing involves risk.

Everybody's heart is like a cup. They stumble from place to place and person to person, trying to get them filled. They get cracked, those cups, and even broken. Some people throw them away, thinking that it will stop the pain. Poor fools. Nobody can fill a cup but Almighty God Himself. Nobody.

No matter how well a person writes, a successful book is a team effort involving many, many people.

I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety.