by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Jun 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Friends, the release of my contemporary Christian novel, When the Ice Melts, is only three weeks away! So, to celebrate, I’m doing something a little different: today’s blog is based not on an encounter I’ve had in nature, but on an event...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Apr 15, 2022 | Devotional Thoughts
This might sound bizarre, but I learned my first lesson in letting go from a cantankerous rattan vine. It was many years ago, and my family and I were chipping away at the never-ending task of maintaining the forest land behind our creek. On this...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Mar 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
I remember the day I learned to go further. It was many years ago, and my family and I were exploring the Trillium Gap Trail in Tennessee’s beautiful Smoky Mountains. Having hiked this trail before, we knew it was a popular route, and rightly...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Mar 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
Spring is singing its song, and the chorus spreads throughout the world. Grass is racing along the hillsides, igniting every hill and hollow in green. Birds are soaring in from the south—the bushes and trees that were so silent in winter are...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Feb 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
The breath of the January afternoon is cold on the back of my neck. I shiver and burrow my hands deeper into my coat pockets. It’s no wonder I’m chilly, because I’m sitting cross-legged on the ground, among the silver stubble of dry grass. I’m...
