Dear xoJane, It's been more than a year since I've written here, since I've done more than read articles and then click away to the next thing, whatever that thing might be. My life changed all in one stroke — the death of an important family member, a job change, a big move, a novel. And

Two women are responsible for changing my life: Joy Nash and Emily McCombs. One of those women I've often described as having the "road map" of my heart, the other I've never actually met in real life but was the first person who ever took a chance on my words. It was 2012 and I'd been ...Continue

Our love affair with screens started a long time ago. While we loved our televisions from the beginning, we really loved them when we saw them in the windows of stores, on sale, by the hundreds. All of those glistening, colorful, shiny screens, all shapes and sizes. Oh, how they would capture our

“Were you abused as a child?” Lynn asked. The temptation to hang up the phone burnt my fingertips as if I had touched a car bumper that had been sitting under a hot sun for hours. I did not call Lynn Andrews — a shaman healer, mystic, and an internationally best-selling author with 20 books to her

When I was 13, social media wasn’t what it is now. There was no Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat. But as a middle-schooler, I was very active in online message boards associated with a magazine I subscribed to. The magazine had some vaguely Christian overtones, which is probably why