Hi there! Leaving behind the familiar and facing the unknown is hard. Having moved seven times in 16 years, Nomad Wife reflects my heart for experiencing the opportunities of starting over. Grab a box and join me, a content, married woman — a mother of two grown children and a grandma of three — as together with Jesus Christ we pick up, pack up and move on.

Three Things on My Bucket List

Play a better game of golf, which necessitates that I actually get out on a course.
Learn how to cook better (telling you something about my gracious husband of 41 plus years).
Learn photography

Some of My Favorites

The true, God-breathed, inerrant, infallible, immutable, culturally-relevant Word of God
Sound Bible teachers, including Charles Swindoll, Alistair Begg, David Jeremiah, Anne Graham Lotz, Bill Crowder, Adrian Rogers, Dietrich Boenhoeffer
Anything by Jan Karon and Francine Rivers
A good, suspenseful mystery filled with intrigue (David Baldacci, Alfred Hitchcock)
True “oldies”: An Affair to Remember (both the 1939 original and the 1957 remake), North by Northwest, It’s a Wonderful Life, To Catch a Thief, The Quiet Man, Notorious, The Bishop’s Wife, The Longest Day, The Philadelphia Story, and the list goes on …

Other

Blog message content is derived from notes taken over the years from the teachings of pastors and teachers of the Bible whom I trust. These include Charles Swindoll, Alistair Begg, Tony Perkins, David Jeremiah, Anne Graham Lotz, Adrian Rogers, Matthew Henry’s Commentary (abridged), and writers of Our Daily Bread. I apologize for where I have not correctly attributed their works.

Scripture verses cited in Nomad Wife are from the New International Version (NIV) translation, unless otherwise specified.