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I’m Becky. I’m a mom, wife, writer, INFJ, and former healthcare PR pro. My grief & growing-up memoir, BROKEN for GOOD, released in 2016; I’m currently writing upmarket/literary fiction.

I love to light candles, peruse estate sales, and grow exotic tulips, daffodils, and dahlias. I make a crazy good chocolate buttercream and lost my wedding ring while dipping peanut-butter balls. I collect home and architecture books and nerd out on things like window inflection and entasis (classic Greek and Georgian country houses makes my heart race). Alas, we built from the dirt-up in a corn field nine years ago, so I’m constantly looking to add character. I love experimenting with color and repaint my living room every two years, treating my walls more as mood rings and less like final answers.

I gravitate towards fiction and nonfiction that asks big, brave questions. Death seems to be the connective thread, featuring a LOT in my writing and reading (I think wise people think about death a lot—not in a morbid way or a YOLO way, but in a sober, human, generous, intentional, “how should we now live?” way). This is a fragile, heart-breaking business, being alive! I’ve got a soft spot for big playful thinkers like C.S. Lewis, Neil Postman, and G.K. Chesterton. I also adore (and quite possibly over-promote) the oeuvre of the late, great Oswald Chambers. Utmost is easily the best book on practical faith I’ve ever read. I keep pressing it into people’s palms.

You can find a list of my favorite articles here.

Oh: and the blog's here.

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