Surrounded by the wilderness of northern Minnesota and southern Canada, I grew up as a child of absolutes. I could hardly have been anything else. Nature, and the One who moves her, is extremely orderly. By observing her, I gradually learned the rhythm of time, a march of the seasons mirroring the Creator’s immutability. I’m…
Author: Constance Colson-Clay
I’m a former ECPA Christian bestselling novelist, journalist and educator with twenty plus years of experience teaching kindergarten through university classes in private, public, secular and Christian institutions. I hold a bachelor’s degree in writing and a master’s in literature. My college sweetheart and I have been married thirty-six years, and I’ve homeschooled our children through high school. Our oldest daughter is now a medical doctor, our middle is an aspiring singer-songwriter with a bachelor's degree in music composition and our youngest is in high school. We love performing our original compositions (or doing pretty much anything) as a family.
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 3. Plus: This Fall-en World
Since this last Chapter 2 segment of Chase is so small, below it I’m also posting another updated seasonal vignette originally published in 2020. Betty Rawlings looked across her Bible at the two boys devouring her gingersnaps. “It’s good to see that my reading didn’t affect your appetites.” She tousled Forrest’s hair, then smoothed it…
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2 part 2
As Forrest and Tom daydream of their rodeo futures, the two boys share their hopes and heartaches.
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 2
Eileen insists that Harvey hide his rodeo past from their daughter, but now Alison is planning her future as a world-champion barrel racer with her cousin Jenny. Alison’s aunt and father wonder how the Austin family will ever reconcile the life Al dreams of with the one Eileen desires.
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 1 part 2
Even before watching her first rodeo, nine-year-old Alison Austin dreams of being a beautiful woman on a fast horse, little guessing what such dreams will cost her and those she learns to love.
Chase the Dream: Childhood Dreams, Chapter 1
Raised as a tomboy, I never intended to write romances. I never even read ‘em. Stocked by my cultured mother and paternal grandmother, the resort library contained no such pulp. My best friend and her family devoured precarious stacks of Harlequins® at her farm, but I despised the melodramatic cover art, writing and plot. Why…
Harvest of Memories
Crimson jewels my husband picked sit in white ice cream buckets on our kitchen table, facing me, challenging me. He pats me on the back, whispering sweet matrimonial-style nothings: “Honey, how about making fresh cranberry jelly?” I smile grimly and search for a recipe. I haven’t canned cranberries for years, not since my granny was…
The Secret of the Blueberry Patch
My genteel Southern grandma usually protected herself from our northern summer sun with a large-brimmed straw hat, tied under her chin with a big, colorful bow. When the wild berries ripened, she switched to a no-nonsense seed cap. Leading the march to the ditches or neighbors’ old cow pasture, she’d make us pick for hours….
Carpe Diem
My husband and I were thrilled with our firstborn, but people congratulating us usually added, “Enjoy your time with her. Soon she’ll be in school and you’ll be writing again.” Sure, I’d think, in about eighteen years. The reality was almost double, although God had clearly blessed us with our miracle child. I was young,…
When the Early Bird Catches the Night Owl
In little more than a month, Daylight Savings Time ends. Gain an hour? For me it only means I’ve already lost winter’s war and won a mere 3,600 seconds in which to try keeping up with our family’s night owls. It’s not an issue when the sun shines, but as darkness swallows bright minutes at…
Constance Colson-Clay 