Leslie Vicary and family: (l-r) Sugarbell, Jeff, Leslie, Sunflower, Clover, and Eden.

Leslie Vicary is a Christian author known for amusing and encouraging writings about everyday life with her family and dogs. God reveals himself in both the miraculous and the mundane, and she loves sharing these discoveries through her blog, Everyday Epiphanies, and her book, Loved Anyway.

Leslie is a wife, mom, dog-mom, Jesus-follower, wanna-be-pickleballer, remorseful-eater-of-midnight-ice-cream, and hyphen enthusiast. She prides herself on being the most middle-aged suburbanite on any dance floor, though she has grudgingly promised her husband, Jeff, to never again “stir the pot” (in public; it’s still very much in play at the house). She recently had the thrill of simultaneously mortifying both her husband and teenage daughter when their beach resort threw a dance party. Her entire 90s dance repertoire was in full effect. 

As a product of the American South, Leslie boasts an enviable lineage of cotton pickers, coalminers, and Mary Kay ladies. She graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in communication and a minor in theatre, which has proven to be predictably useless. Roll Tide.

Leslie grew up a Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, and sometimes Thursday and/or Friday Southern Baptist. Copious hours of her youth were spent at puppet practice and fellowship suppers, where the Baptist church provided a robust foundation of Biblical knowledge and mission experience, for which she’s now very grateful.

In her 20s, Leslie drifted from the faith of her childhood, as one does, until a series of depressing life events sent her searching for more, as they do. That’s when she started attending a little start-up church, which eventually became the megachurch, Church of the Highlands. Her experience there set in motion decades of Bible study and a personal relationship with the Holy Spirit that informs her faith and life today. 

Leslie and her husband, Jeff, are blessed with the world’s most wonderful teenage daughter, Eden, who actually likes to hang out with them (most of the time). Being a mom is the most joyful, emotional, confusing, rewarding, and meaningful thing she’s ever done. And she would never want to attempt it without God’s help. Good news: she doesn’t have to! Getting to baptize her daughter was one of the greatest honors of her life. She and Jeff have been married for more than 20 years. Marriage is crazy challenging, as any married person will affirm, and Leslie is convinced that the fun, communication, and love for one another now can be attributed to one thing: Jesus.

Everyday life can feel like a drudge and a dream all in the same afternoon, but God is in it all, and he’s speaking if we listen. For years, Leslie journaled the little revelations God was sharing with her. And by “journaled,” she means she wrote them on the back of whatever paper-esque product might be near: receipts, napkins, the ripped-off flap of a cereal box, and then stuck them in the closest drawer or car console. Eventually, she felt God prodding her to stop procrastinating and write for real, which began a complex journey of first locating all her scribbled-on-the-back-of-an-envelope manuscripts and then publishing the first book in her Pup-epiphaines Series.

God Loves You as Much as You Love Your Dog, now rebranded as Loved Anyway, is the humorous and heartwarming story of how her love for her precocious little dog helped her understand God's unconditional love for her (and you).

Leslie hopes that you’ll be encouraged and amused as you read her writings, and, above all, that you’ll be more convinced than ever that God loves you and is with you in the miraculous and the mundane of everyday life.