Welcome.
I write from my home in Saskatchewan where I returned after a fifty-year absence. I left a piece of myself behind when our family left the prairie province and prayed I’d return to reclaim it one day. I was almost ready to give up on my dream when circumstances changed and here we are.
I am a wife, mom, grandma, adoptee, writer, reader, photographer, gardener, and unapologetic homebody. I believe grace abounds, joy-sparkers show up when I am open to seeing them, and God calls me beloved even when I feel like I’m not worthy of that kind of love.
I started blogging in 2007. The look and flavour of my internet home has changed over the years. These days, I write about ordinary days and the sometimes extraordinary things that happen in them. I’m about contentment, quiet, and a simple faith that keeps me afloat in a world where storms show up without warning.
Join me?
The Presence of Absence
A Story About Busyness, Brokenness, and Being Beloved
This is a spiritual memoir about a longing many of us have for something we struggle to articulate. It’s about fear, brokenness, and the mystery of stillness, solitude, and silence. It is the story of a sacred journey to a lost mother, a found family, and an encounter with divine love.
The Presence of Absence is available at Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, Barnes and Noble, and Indigo Chapters.
“An Invitation”
Both memoir and spiritual journal, this memoir gently invites the reader to join the writer in her sacred search.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Marian L. Beaman, author of Mennonite Daughter: The Story of a Plain Girl
“Offering Hope”
Culminating in mystical experience sustained by reading classical spiritual literature, her story will offer hope to all who recognize in themselves an inconsolable, unnamed, melancholy and joyful, longing.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Shirley Showalter, author of Blush: A Mennonite Girl Meets a Glittering World
“A Call to Solitude”
We all would do well to consider her call to solitude, introspection, and a recognition that God chooses each of us to be uniquely beloved.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Linda K Thomas, memoir coach and author of Please, God, Don’t Make Me Go: A Foot-Dragger’s Memoir and Grandma’s Letters from Africa
Two Hearts
An Adoptee’s Journey Through Grief to Gratitude
Two Hearts charts a course through a complex series of relationships stemming from the author’s adoptive family, her maternal and paternal birth families, and an abusive marriage as the author seeks the one thing she desperately wants: family. This is the story of a journey through grief, what it takes to go into the abyss of deep-seated wounding, feel the pain, and come out the other side.
Two Hearts is available in print and e-book format at selected bookstores and major online retailers like Amazon.com and Amazon.ca.
“Powerful”
. . . a powerful and inspirational memoir . . . Hoye has written a book that will haunt you.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Kim Michele Richardson, New York Times bestselling author of The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
“A Healing Journey”
. . . a book about adoption that reads like a novel, yet includes the many diverse feelings adoption brings about in adoptees. It is a healing journey that all adoptees can take comfort in, perhaps especially those who find death in reunion. Her honest account of her experience will inspire others to begin this perilous, but rewarding journey.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Nancy Verrier, MFT
Author of The Primal Wound
and Coming Home to Self
“An Important Story”
. . . an important story about being adopted during a time of great ignorance and darkness. Her voice is one we need to listen to. Read her book. Her story matters.
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
— Jennifer Lauck – New York Times Bestselling author of Blackbird, Still Waters, Show Me the Way & Found
Living Liminal
A Slice of Pandemic Life
In 2020, every person in every place in the world was shaken. British Columbians in Canada learned to live in the liminality of waiting for a semblance of normal life to return while weathering an unprecedented heat dome and fire season, followed by flooding and mudslides.
This book chronicles quotidian days, in times that were anything but. Through journal entries, poetry, blog and social media posts, interspersed with government directives to provide context, it offers a glimpse into one ordinary life during two extraordinary years.
Living Liminal is available exclusively at Amazon.ca and Amazon.com
