At long last, the nonfiction story of an 1847 pioneer mother of four young sons who lost her husband at the Snake River on the Oregon Trail. She later married the first American to settle north of the Columbia River and hosted such well-known people as Washington Territorial Governor Isaac Stevens and Ulysses S. Grant, […]

What prompts a couple with two grown children to give up a lucrative job and leave for the jungles of Cameroon? Only the Lord who spoke clearly to Norma (Booth) Clark and told her the time to go was “Now!” She and her husband, Gilbert, stepped out in faith, joined Wycliffe Bible Translators, and raised […]

During sixty-three years of marriage, Dr. Ken and Clarita Burden raised four children, welcomed six grandchildren, and followed the leading of the Lord in their vocations and avocations. They donated time and money to missions through the Seventh-day Adventist Church. When they weren’t working, tending to medical patients or teaching piano students, the couple drove […]

As a child growing up in the Philippine Islands, Robert A. Wheeler saw his normal childhood change drastically when the Imperial Japanese Air Force bombed Manila on December 8, 1941, the day after their planes destroyed United States battleships at Pearl Harbor in the Hawaiian Islands. Bob, his younger brother, Albert, their American father and […]

I enjoyed working with Jess Daniels on his memoir, a coming-of-age story of a young man’s journey on the pathway of life—a journey that begins on the outskirts of a south-Texas city, proceeds through the wilds of north-central Idaho, and eventually ends on a college campus in western Montana, some two decades later. Unbeknownst to […]

What else do you do when you’re 91? Besides running a steam locomotive as an engineer, if you’re Harold Borovec, you publish a history on a long-defunct railroad. Borovec, a railroad fan from his early childhood, worked for Edmund Lambert on the Cowlitz, Chehalis & Cascade Railway in the 1940s, and listened to the older […]

    I enjoyed working with Thomas Chandler Jr. of San Jose, California, in publishing his memoirs, From Fa rm Boy to Global Ambassador, in 2017. During our interviews, he shared a remarkable story of how a dyslexic pig farmer from Illinois become Southeast Asia director of a worldwide missions organization providing relief to victims of […]

Two years ago, I was honored to help Dorothy “Dotty” Jean (Stump) Light published her book, Busy and Blessed: The Memoirs of Dotty Jean (Stump) Light. She passed away in April but first shared her life story with friends and family. During 2017, I helped her husband, Frank M. Light, publish his book, Glimpses of […]

Once again I had the privilege of working with Judith Litchfield of Portland, who wrote Providence White Caps: The Diary of Bernice Lorang, RN.  She based the story on the diary her aunt kept while training at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Vancouver, Washington. This is Judy’s third book Chapters of Life has published. The first […]