PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES This past year has been very challenging in many areas of life. My husband went from being t...

Hello everyone, Di Riley here. Characters ..... Adam’s ‘what if’post (September 16) made me think about the characters in my stories ...

Each day starts off with certain expectations but what of our expectations of others. Do we have greater expectations of Christians than...

MOVIE GOER This is something authors have to keep in mind each time we create and write a character. And stereotyping people is som...

Years ago, I remember seeing the movie ‘Dead Poets’ Society’ and being very stirred by it. For a long time afterwards, those Latin words ‘...

"What if?" That has got to be the greatest question in the english language. It is at the heart of all stories, and is a great jum...

Recently I spoke at a Ladies Breakfast on the topic: Simplify your life . I expressed the thought that our lives would be less complex if we...

I remember the first post I wrote for this blog. I was nervous (I think it may have been the first blog post I'd ever written) but I was...

Here's something I was ruminating over some time ago, and the importance of it struck me again.  Have you ever wanted to g...

As I am working on my book, Fat Girls Can Dance , I am looking at a whole range of personal development concepts.  One of these is the whole...

Photo courtesy of Salvatore Vuono/ freedigitalphotos.net When was the last time you heard a message and thought the spe...

Control Freak I just went to the supermarket for my weekly grocery shop. I should have stopped at home and written the blog first, but I’m...

Who influences do you remember or credit for your work? I am heading to a school reunion, it’s been 20 years, I am feeling so old. I h...

My little car Mitsy is one of my prized possessions. We’d been hunting for a perfect little car for me – and I’d almost given up hope of eve...

In the same year that I discovered the treasures of the school library, my parents began reading the Narnia series to me (and...