As an author, speaker, and media personality, Karen Whiting encourages families to connect, serve, and treasure one another. Drawing on first-hand experience as a mother of five, she shares humorous anecdotes from her own life while offering creative solutions to simplify life and sprinkle joy into each day. She encourages women by providing suggestions to reunite family and invest time in relationships in order to help them live more fulfilling and joyful lives.

Karen wrote for the former Focus on the Family's parenting magazines (Focus on Your Child). As a renowned speaker on relations in the home and time management, Karen says, "It's time to stop drowning in business and regain control of your days." She urges people to follow a simple plan using the acrostic T-I-M-E:

Trust days to God
Invest in people first
Manage the moments
Evaluate your time choices and adjust as needed

As a contributing author for Suite101.com, Karen writes helpful articles covering parenting, crafts, and inspirational pieces. For a preview of Karen's most recent articles, visit her Karen the Author page.

Karen is a former TV host of Puppets on Parade and has been a guest on various Christian television shows including:

• Home Keepers with Arthalene Rippy
• The Harvest Show
• Atlanta's 57 WATC

As a veteran radio guest, Karen has spoken on many topics of interest to families, including time management, upgrading your life, raising children, connecting children to God, fun family devotions, military and business separations, and relationships in the home. She has appeared on:

• Water through the Word
• Heart to Heart
• The Midday Show with Sandy James
• The Noon Show with Carol Henry
• Her Place
• Northland Notebook
• Viewpoint
• KNEO Author's Corner
• Communicating for Christ

Karen also writes inspirational craft books for tween girls, where creativity and faith combine for hands-on fun that develops a young lady's talents and virtues. Today's girls will be tomorrow's women so it's a great time to help them make wise choices.