So great to have a new website and a chance to illustrate my writings with my own photographs! This site is one of many blessings in my life, and I try always to remember to take nothing for granted. I give thanks for our nation and freedoms, my family and friends, my church and the…
In the rudimentary guesthouse in the village of Cherident, the roosters woke me up before dawn. I’d just spent my first night in the Caribbean nation of Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. The inky sky turned grey, then pale pink and blue. Shafts of early sunlight streaked into the window that had…
I first traveled to Haiti twenty years ago. Not much has changed. Stepping out of the Port-au-Prince airport, it’s easy to feel sensory overload. The sun is too bright, the humidity too thick, the sky backlit with too much haze, and the people too many. Once out of the city and into the mountains, the…
Frances Landers took her first mission trip to Haiti when she was sixty, thinking she’d never go again. God had other plans. When Frances passed away more than thirty years later, she had gone to Haiti forty-three times, had funded schools in forty mountain villages, and had raised scholarship money for over ten thousand students…
My father, known by his friends as Wally, grew up with two passions: the train and the camera. He combined them in a successful railroading career of journalism, public relations, writing, photography, and consulting. After retiring, he wrote and published The Little Jewel: Soo Line Railroad and the Locomotives that Made it Go. Heartened by…
It’s a great delight to assist others in achieving their writing dreams. As a freelancer, co-author, or behind-the-scenes editor or researcher, perhaps I can help you with a writing project you’ve long wanted to tackle. I pour heart and soul into collaboration, blending our respective areas of expertise while ensuring that the writing is in…
What a joy to recently help psychotherapist Esther Carson Bleuel bring her book to life. Getting Unstuck: Experience the Joy of Finishing Strong will help you discover life’s limiting factors and learn how to change or work around them. “My thanks to Martha Abbey Miller, without whom Getting Unstuck would…
