Welcome! I’m glad you’re here. My goal with Great and Noble Tasks is to regularly publish articles that are encouraging, helpful, edifying, and/or meaningful to others in some way … and sometimes that are just fun to read (and fun to write). Here’s a little bit about me and my background:
I’m a wife and mother of three young adults and one teenager, and have also been blessed with a daughter-in-law, a son-in-law, and three granddaughters. This is the cornerstone of my love for and appreciation of “great and noble tasks.” Small tasks that are actually great and noble often begin with those who are closest to us.
I’m a teacher at heart. I taught high school English before homeschooling my own children for the past 20 years. I’ve coordinated and taught Sunday school to preschoolers through high schoolers, written academic and Sunday school curricula, led women’s discipleship groups and Bible studies, and currently serve on the board of a local Christian school.
I’ve been writing all my life. When I was nine, I decided to be a mystery writer (hopefully the next “Carolyn Keene” or Agatha Christie), but sadly, I was unable to actually create a plot of any kind. After time as a theatre major and eventually acquiring a degree in English, I discovered that I could get paid for writing – advertising and marketing materials, that is. Not mystery stories after all. I’ve been a freelance writer and editor ever since.
I am a Christian. My life changed drastically more than 25 years ago, when God brought me back to himself after a long, long hiatus of living only for myself. He’s been teaching me the meaning of love, sacrifice, obedience, grace, mercy, humility, patience, and what it looks like to live out what I say I believe.
What’s the meaning of this website’s name? Click here for Why “Great and Noble Tasks”?
To read more about my story and my testimony, click here for Testify
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