For: A fun family evening watching Chitty Chitty Bang BangReminders that “The LORD is His name” and to “be anxious for nothing.” My critique partners and their wonderful stories, which I get to read in-process. Our kitty feeling better after an upset tummy.Not getting sick…yet. ☺A warm house to live in.Stroganoff for dinner.The music of […]
We had our first real fall rain on Wednesday; a steady pour from early morning through mid-afternoon filled our little rain gauge past the two-inch mark. Around four or five o’clock, though, the rain lifted and the sun broke through, dazzling the clouds white in growing patches of blue and shimmering droplets on the crepe […]
Even more than the wonderful workshops and meetings with amazing authors, agents, and editors, the greatest gift the Lord gave me through Mount Hermon became learning the importance of the Body of Christ for writers. Contrary to the image of the writer as a solitary typist—though I often have to resemble one to get much […]
When I kissed my sister goodnight last night—she was hanging out with my mom, discussing their homeschool Bible lesson for that day—she said, “You look happy.” My mom agreed. “You look happier than you did ten minutes ago.” Ten minutes ago, I guess I’d been a bit stressed by trying to condense my two-and-a-half page […]
Our family holds a fondness for the Hundred Acre Wood. Winnie the Pooh held the honor of being almost the only animated Disney my sister and I watched when we were little. As I grew older, I appreciated A. A. Milne’s original Pooh books still more—the whimsical line illustrations, the comforting narrator’s voice, the stuffed […]
My sister enjoys watching the “deleted scenes” on DVDs. I often join her; it’s fun to see extra bits of the story that didn’t make the final cut and hear the sometimes-included director’s commentary on why that particular scene received the axe. While I can often understand the rationale—a scene didn’t really move the story […]
Stephanie Grace Whitson has become one of my favorite historical fiction authors in the past year, and her latest book, A Most Unsuitable Match, did not disappoint. By the end of the first two chapters, the main characters Fannie and Sam had drawn me in and made me care…and as we writers know, that is […]
It has been a blessing for me to connect with Jennifer Slatterly these past few weeks, a writer much farther along the journey of life, faith, and writing than I am! I am delighted to welcome her as my first guest blogger, and I know you will be blessed by her insights as I was. […]
Read Part 1 here. Today marked our first dress rehearsal for Seussical Jr. My heart swelled with gratitude as I listened to our Horton lead in prayer at the beginning of rehearsal and watched him and our Mr. Mayor throw themselves into their parts. It has been several weeks now since God brought them to […]
Waiting. It’s not something I’m very good at. I can be pretty patient waiting at the doctor’s office or in the grocery line…at least so I sometimes think, smugly comparing myself to others. I can spend a long time playing with a toddler or swaying a baby to sleep. But waiting bothers me when I […]
