NIKI FLORICA

I was in a canoe nights ago on a lake as still as glass. So still, every sound skipped over the surface of the water and time itself...

I watched my favourite author give a lecture yesterday. As a full-time writer (wow, what beautiful words), he has the luxury of writing...

I kind of have a thing about the night sky. I mean, one of my latest projects is called Operation Stars, my first book cover featured not...

For the past few weeks, sitting down to blog has felt like staring at a solid wall and trying to see through it. And no, I'm not...

Crazy week, folks. Craaaazy week. Second-year has just begun and already there just aren't enough hours in the day; writing and...

I bombed my first driver's test. And, no, before you say, "Oh, I failed, too!" believe me when I say that mine was probably worse. In...

Imagine this. You have a dream about something you've been dreading. It goes badly. You screw up, or the whole shebang goes south in the...

Ideas. Why is that such a scary word? Don't get any ideas. She's been filling her head with ideas. I think sometimes we forget that life...

I'm usually pretty good at laughing at myself. You know, when the stakes are low. When things get stressful, though, and nobody else is...

Job training is no one's idea of a good time. All the uncertainty and awkwardness, the stupid mistakes, the overlooked details, the...

Well, I had a good run, but I've officially reached the other side of my first Covid test! I'm grateful that my family has been able to...

I thought I knew exactly what God wanted me to do. When I set out to write my first "real" novel (excluding its epic mermaid precursor),...

Funny thing about toast—when you smell it, you want it. Ever notice that? I mean, there was a time when I would sooner eat dirt than...

Squirrels get a bad rap. I know from experience—watching my family's ongoing bird-feeder vs. squirrel feud of feuds—but I can't help...

Now, I typically don't write my Thankful Thursday posts at eight o'clock on Thursday night, but when life hands you lemons and a busy...

Meet Dudley, Myrtle, and Rudy, the three happy snowmen mascots of this Thankful Thursday post. Technically, I should be studying for my...

I do not have a spontaneous bone in my body. I mean that in the most literal sense. I am not impulsive. I hate making decisions and...

In our effort to have a relationship with God, to know Him and His Son on an intimate, personal level, I think there is a pitfall we...

I've always known what it's like to have Someone in my life who would never let me down. You'd think after all this time I'd figure out...

I feel like I've spent way too much of my life watching the clock. Despite my early enthusiasm for it, I realized quickly as a...