• 4 Strategies for Overcoming Life’s Obstacles

    I’m so grateful to author DiAnn Mills for inviting me to share this post with her readers on her beautiful blog. DiAnn is an award-winning, best-selling romantic suspense author with a heart from Jesus, love for her readers, and passion for helping other writers. I hope my post on overcoming life’s obstacles encourages you today. When my now-husband James and I were dating, he helped me purchase my first mountain bike. I knew he loved off-road biking and that this investment would give us hours of quality time together. Going on three years now, I’ve been riding my Cannondale with him, and he’s been helping me improve my technical skills.…

  • When Is Choosing the Easy Path Okay?

    The last few Saturdays have brought the faintest hint of fall in Florida, just enough to encourage my husband James and me to get back on our bikes and explore new off-road trails. Several months have passed since the last time I went mountain-biking, but I was feeling pretty confident I could handle easy “green” trails. (I use the term “mountain-biking” loosely, because there are no mountains in Florida.) Croom Wildlife Management Area offers over sixty miles of trails and a few more advanced “blue” ones James wanted to try. We geared up, checked the air in our tires, and started out. Only a few minutes in, I was starting…