Book special for Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving Monday!
I have to start by thanking you all so very much for your lovely comments of congratulation on my book publication a couple of weeks ago. I am most encouraged. You’re kind comments are so heartening! I love having friends to share the festivities of book release celebrations.
Which brings me to the festivity [...]

Yesterday

I find my brain too knotted for serious thinking today.
I was going to review Lilith, and along with it, tell you more about George MacDonald. Can’t seem to find the words yet.
I was going to flesh out the bones of the essay I’ve been carrying in my head all week. Too many good directions it [...]

Today, I love…

Maxing out my library holds list. I get in a book mood and order about a dozen. Two are ready today: A Simply Wonderful Christmas: A Literary Advent Calendar, and Brendan.
Being done with the business side of being a writer. Sales tax licenses and business acounts, bleh.
Riffling back through the pages of Lilith in search [...]

Good Sabbath

When night comes on with song and tale we pass the wintry hours;
By keeping up a cheerful heart we hope for better days.
We tend the cattle, sow the seed, give work unto the ploughers,
With patience wait till winter yields before the sun’s fair rays.
And so the world goes round and round, and every time and [...]

Slow-grown grace

I nearly cried in an auto shop the other day.
It started on a morning that felt like spring. There was sunlight clear as water, and an early wind that played on my skin and set the dead pine needles at my feet to skipping. I saw none of it though. I stood, eyes shaded, in [...]

Ramblings

I’ve rambled around the internet more than usual of late, and stumbled upon some marvelous artsy, literary sorts of things. I feel compelled to share them:
The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor
I’m having such fun with this. It’s basically a poem a day. If you subscribe to the free podcast, you get a dose of literary [...]

I will never own a cat

I pulled my neighbor’s red door shut behind me and grinned. This was the easiest money I’d ever made. Feed the dog twice a day for a week and don’t let the cats out. This, I could do. It was my first afternoon as an official babysitter of beloved pets and I thought the world, [...]

Good Sabbath

Lord, I bring you my treasure.
It is larger than the mountains, broader than the world, deeper than the sea, higher than the clouds, more lovely than the sun, more manifold than the stars; it weighs more than the whole earth.
Oh you, image of My godhead, made splendid by My humanity, adorned with My [...]

Reading of late

November resolution number one: write more book reviews.
It is scandalous how many books I read and never say or write a word about. A good book demands praise. So. Starting today, I’m going to do a weekly mini-review post of all the books I am reading. Just jottings; postcards if you will, from my [...]

Tap on my shoulder

I was driving down the highway very early (too early)  the other day. Snow like sugar on the streets, steam rising from the slip of tires, the sky a pale, unbearable blue. Fingers stiff with cold, eyes dim with sleep and irritation, I tapped the radio on to classical. A piano and violin duet came [...]