Air and Mercy {A poem of hope}
When air came in small and left me wanting more like a starving child, my eyes round with want and my mind racing too quickly for me to catch a thought, I sucked in slow and deliberate. I listened to...
View Article3 Things I Learned About Life From A Writer’s Conference
It is a sight to see, all those self-proclaimed introverts and book nerds chatting it up. And for this introvert, there’s a bit of a homecoming whenever I step through the doors of the Inland...
View ArticleIt’s Not Always Pretty, But It Is Always Good {My Story in Video}
I watched spring this morning. The robins hopped on greening grass. Goldfinch looked in the window as if to ask me, “Are you ever going to fill that feeder with thistle?” Cold blue skies, swept with...
View ArticleBrave Not Me {an essay}
{Friends, I signed up for a memoir workshop with Tweetspeak Poetry. There are about ten brave souls taking courageous steps toward better understanding their own stories in order to share them with...
View ArticleStephen King and I
Like Anna and the King of Siam, Stephen King and I are really nothing alike. He’s a man, I’m a woman. Most obvious difference. He writes horror. I do not. He’s a lot older than I am. Really, he is....
View Article5,000 Lifetimes {Can I Repay God for His Mercy?)
Dear friends, I took the summer off from writing. We played and worked at the lake. Oh, I’m so thankful. But the routine of fall is a lovely thing, like a waltz after a season of cacophony. So I’m...
View ArticleLittle Words {And Thinking Big}
It was August 23, 1930 and my Aunt Lucille wrote in her journal this: “All the big words I know are little ones – Sky is a little word, but it is all infinity, All of height and depth and blue and air...
View ArticleIn Which I am Lost and Found Again {rediscovering purpose}
I sat before the computer for long, silent minutes. Fingers hovered, stiff yet from the night’s sleep, but ready and waiting, waiting for a message. My mind, my heart: there lie the problems in the...
View ArticleFrom Disneyland to Duck Dynasty: Our Obsession with “Real”
I sat in the hydraulic chair in the well-decorated salon, under the glare of halogen lights and surrounded by walls painted earthy shades of gray and brick red and dried-leaf brown. My roots glared...
View ArticleWhat Clips Your Wings? {or, yelling at God}
What clips your wings? My youngest boy brought home an application to be a class representative in student body government, his first foray into leadership, politics, into submitting himself to the...
View ArticleMore Life
The frost lays thickly on branch and windowpane where the sun’s rays cannot reach. It is winter but the days are lengthening by a minute with each rotation of the earth. New Year’s Day may land on...
View ArticleWhen Your Story is a Dumb, Sob-Story {How to Handle Harsh}
He called my story a sob story. That would make me the “sob-ber” –not really attractive. He then proceeded to call my story and how I told it –dumb. Three times dumb, said he. And it cut a little,...
View ArticleI Am A Spiritual Misfit (a guestpost)
“He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me.” Psalm 18:19 It might have been 1975. My dress was navy blue with full, white sleeves. It’s hem rested above my...
View ArticleWhen It Hurts To Go to Church, Part 2 {How to Get Happy Again, Really Happy}
When Jesus saw his ministry drawing huge crowds, he climbed a hillside. Those who were apprenticed to him, the committed, climbed with him. Arriving at a quiet place, he sat down and taught his...
View ArticleWhen You Don’t Know God Is
I haven’t written on this blog since Christmas. It’s now Holy Week. I don’t know if I quit or took a break or got busy. I did go to Europe for a month. I’ve written snatches. I’ve read tons. I saw the...
View ArticleAfternoon with the Trembling Giant
I’m convinced that there is no more beautiful spot on earth on the first of June than Cherry Lane. It runs just south of my back yard. When the afternoon spills its light just before dusk, brilliant...
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