Hello, friends.I’m generally only going to be posting on Tuesdays now as a regular thing. But today, I wanted to just re-share a couple of posts from years back, both sharing a little bit different perspective on Columbus Day than many of us have.Some of you may have read and watched these in years past. […]
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
Lori Benton, interviewed here a couple of weeks ago, first told me about the movie Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. We share a heart for Native peoples and their often untold history, so I knew it would be a worthwhile watch, though I didn’t expect an easy one. I also wanted to see another […]
An Interview and a Giveaway: Lori Benton and Burning Sky! Part 1
Welcome to my very first author interview and book giveaway! I have been so blessed to connect with historical novelist Lori Benton and her heart for Native American history these past few months, and I’m honored she agreed to not only be interviewed but to give away a copy of her beautiful book Burning Sky […]
Messy History and Mustard Seeds
Sometimes history is hard to learn. When I first read Richard Twiss’s One Church Many Tribes, at least once I stopped in tears and couldn’t pick the book up again for a while. I think it was the chapter about the abuse of Native American children at many mission boarding schools . . . central […]
Of Little House and the Birth of a Writer
It’s Laura Ingalls Wilder’s fault that I write historical fiction. Well, not entirely. God has something to do with it too. But I distinctly remember my mom pulling the car up to the library with me when I was little. I would jump out of the car and dash in, straight back to the shelf […]
Lori Benton and Burning Sky
Would you like to… …tread the early paths of the eighteenth century New York frontier, tugged between those who first called it home and new settlers? …feel the pull of being caught between two worlds, belonging to both, yet neither? …see through the eyes of people in a time and context far from our own—yet […]
Remembering the Long Walk
Photo from the Long Walk It was my very first interview for the story just starting to germinate in my brain and heart. Despite living five years quite near the Navajo reservation, I really knew very little about that nation of people. But my dad knew a man willing to help—Potawatomi himself, but his wife […]
Those Who Wait for the Lord, Part 2
Read Part 1 here.God is big on waiting. Sometimes I wonder why. As I told Him recently one night before falling asleep, “You know, Lord, it would be a whole lot easier to trust You if I knew what was going to happen.” I wonder if I made Him laugh. But the response I sensed […]
Those Who Wait for the Lord, Part 1
She had almost given up hope. No matter that everyone called her beautiful. What was beauty, or anything, if you couldn’t pass it on to your children? And she had no children. The shame of it cloaked her, gnawed at her insides. What was a woman without children in her time? Far worse than one […]
To Jerusalem, Part 4
“But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb bringing the spices which they had prepared…” Mary Magdalene The birds twitter in the pearly pre-dawn as we make our way up the stony path to the tomb. I want to shush them. It doesn’t seem right for anyone […]