Greetings from western Oregon! I'm glad you've stopped by to get to know me a little better. I'm always happy to meet new people and enlarge my world through them.

John and I married 38 years ago and have two children who have enriched our lives with six grandkids. I think grandchildren are some of God's best inventions! Our son and his wife live on the opposite side of the state, where he's a policeman and she works with special needs students. They are parents of four.(The youngest two are twins.) We lived near them for years and I was able to help take care of the twins for the first 18 months of their lives.

One of the neatest things in my life is that we share a multi-generational home with our daughter, Christina Berry, and her husband and two children. We found fifteen acres of forest land with a large house over an empty daylight basement. My husband turned the lower level into a beautiful home for the two of us, so each family has their own house.(Yes, Christina and I have separate kitchens.) We've been living together for 3-1/2 years and it's been a great experience for all of us. Having grandkids upstairs and getting to see them every day is fantastic. And now that Christina and Kevin are doing foster care, we get to be involved in that too!

It's really convenient to live together, as Christina and I also write together. We've completed one co-authored novel, and she has written one on her own. We seem to be getting closer and closer to a publisher accepting us, so we continue to learn our craft at conferences and apply what we learn. It helps that we're able to complete each others sentences.(As we like to say, we share one brain and were separated at birth!) We publish an infrequent, humorous newsletter where we share what the Lord is teaching us on this journey of becoming published writers. We'd love to have you sign up for the Ashberry Lane Newsletter. (There's a great contest for subscribers.)Just stop by www.ashberrylane.net and hit the subscribe button.

The biggest adventure of my life was when John and I (and our two young children) served as Baptist missionaries in Nigeria, West Africa. (And lived to tell about it!) We were there for three years in the mid-1980s and had experiences we will never forget. Now John and I serve as Elders in our church, and as Awana Commanders. We're really enjoying this phase of our lives.