Alice has been writing since she could first hold a pencil. She served for nine years as President of Northern Arizona Word Weavers, a chapter of Word Weavers International. It was through their encouragement that Alice began submitting her work for publication.
Her nonfiction and fiction pieces have appeared in twenty-one anthologies. She is a sixteen-time contributor to the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and has also been published in Angels on Earth, AARP, and Wordsmith Journal. In addition, she has been featured in Women of Distinction magazine.
Beyond her involvement with Word Weavers, Alice has served on the boards of the Professional Women’s Group (PWG) and Y.E.S., The ARC in her community. She is a deaconess and Stephen Minister at her church. For the past six years, she has also served on the board of the Verde Valley Humane Society—an experience she considers one of the most rewarding of her life.
Alice is a retired teacher who lives in beautiful Cottonwood, Arizona, with her husband and their rescue dog, Lola. And in their household, whatever Lola wants, Lola gets!
Alice prays her stories cause readers to smile, laugh, or cry—and most of all, to lift their eyes upward to the God who loves them.
Pebbles in My Way… Finding God’s Grace
Life rarely unfolds the way we imagine.
In Pebbles in My Way, Karen invites readers into the deeply personal story of love, loss, faith, failure, and redemption. From the early joy of marriage to the devastating grief of losing those she loves most, Karen wrestles with questions many are afraid to voice: Why does God allow suffering? Where is He when everything falls apart? Can broken faith be restored?
Through seasons of overwhelming sorrow, strained relationships, unexpected blessings, and hard-earned spiritual growth, Karen discovers that the “pebbles” in her way—those small, relentless trials that bruise the soul—are not meant to destroy her, but to build her foundation of faith.
With raw honesty and heartfelt reflection, she shares her journey of confronting guilt, surrendering anger, rebuilding trust in God, and learning that grace is not found in perfection—but in perseverance.
Pebbles & Praise Life Stories
Life rarely unfolds the way we expect.
For Alice, the path has been filled with unexpected trials—fear, heartbreak, mistakes, and moments when faith seemed just out of reach. Yet through every challenge, she discovered something remarkable: even the smallest pebbles along life’s road can become reasons for praise.
In Pebbles and Praise, Alice invites readers to walk beside her through a lifetime of deeply personal experiences—from painful regret and overwhelming fear to surprising joy and moments of unmistakable divine grace. With honesty, humor, and heartfelt faith, she shares the lessons she learned while stumbling over life’s “pebbles.”
Each story reveals how God quietly works through ordinary moments, unexpected encounters, and even our greatest struggles to shape our hearts and strengthen our faith.
Thoughtful, uplifting, and deeply relatable, Pebbles and Praise reminds us that life’s obstacles are often the very things that lead us closer to God—and give us the greatest reasons to praise Him.
