Loneliness

Thought you might like to read a column I wrote recently for a military wesbite, www.wivesoffaith.org, on the subject of loneliness. Enjoy. “Know and Be Known” When my husband Steve and I moved to Bahrain, literally days after we were married, I was all of...

crosswalk.com

Exciting to see the first chapter of Found Art featured on Crosswalk.com today! Watch for the cover image on the scrolling ad on the left side of the homepage!! Click on it to read the entire first chapter, “Uprooting.” Feel free and forward on to others...

We’re talkin’ books, Baby.

I mentioned earlier in the week that I returned from the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing with a suitcase full of books. On that subject, I thought it might be fun to share book lists. I’ll start. What I just finished reading The Liars’ Club by Mary Karr...

“Hands Larger Than Our Own”

I’ve just returned from five days in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the Calvin College Festival of Faith and Writing, an incredible amalgamation of scholars, poets, artists, pastors, editors and writers. I attended the bi-annual conference in 2008, just a few months after...

I Am No Woodworker

I’m inviting ways to more fully participate in my life. To that end, I got a good idea. (I tend to be very fond of my good ideas. To the point that I become obsessively committed to them and, possibly even, become a bit of an impulsive activator.) So, last week I...

March Madness

We’ve survived our own version of March Madness. The gnarly stomach flu. Luke gave it to Steve and me, and I have never in my life had to clean up someone else’s barf while I, myself, am barfing. This was an entirely new level of motherhood. On top of it all, Luke had...