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Privilege, Silence, Darkness, Love

Privilege, Silence, Darkness, Love

by | Sep 4, 2025 | ,

Today I’m sharing the truest thing I’ve ever written. It is raw, it is revealing, and it carries the arc of my life in four words: Privilege. Silence. Darkness. Love. From the outside, mine looked like a privileged Texas childhood — but privilege can also be a veil, and silence can train a girl to walk straight into danger. At twenty-three, darkness found me. Violence threaded through the days until I was sure I would not survive the next corner. Yet the prairie still called, and in time, love — steady, faithful, and true — healed me. That is the arc of my memoir, Bones Beneath the Prairie: suspense, heartbreak, prairie light, and redemption.

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Never a Victim-Always a Survivor

Never a Victim-Always a Survivor

by | Sep 2, 2025 | ,

Some stories are buried deep, pressed under years of silence. Mine begins in a small West Texas town, where the prairie stretched endless and the oil rigs marked time like a heartbeat. I learned early that family could be both sanctuary and battlefield — and that the cost of silence is often higher than the truth itself. This book is the unearthing, the laying bare of bones I once tried to keep hidden.

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When Truth Costs You Relationships

When Truth Costs You Relationships

by | Aug 28, 2025 | ,

Behind closed doors, I knew another man entirely: a man who struck me, who betrayed me, who left me in fear. Over time, those shadows hollowed me out from the inside until I no longer recognized myself. And yet, even in that hollowing, I pray I have heard God rightly in telling the truth of what I lived.

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