November 22, 2025

Happy Land, by Dolen Perkins-Valdez, read by Bahni Turpin and Ashley J. Hobbs, is a novel about an actual kingdom that existed in America in the late 1800s, formed by freed people who wanted a place of their own - and about a modern-day descendant of the queen of that kingdom, trying to keep her inheritance.

My new website, Praying with the Psalmists, is up and running! I now have a page about the most comforting Psalms, Psalms of Trust.

Happy Reading!

—Sondra Eklund