1. The table is finished! Come over and sit at it with me.  I’ll make coffee and we can tell each other stories. What’s your favorite book? We can start there. 2. My essay “Dodging Skittles and Other Fears,” is featured at Altarwork, a brand new publication that is interested in faith and the creative arts. What do you know?… View Post

I’ve given birth to the real Fancy Nancy.  Harper is taking ballet this fall, and she is to wear a black leotard and pink tights. Her hair must be in a bun.  Harper obliges, but in the evenings she puts the attire on you see above, and we walk around the neighborhood and survey the construction near the library.  The… View Post

One of the course objectives in my class this year is to allow time for my students to “interact with God’s truth using various forms of literature.” Lest you think I take this to mean I ought to teach the Left Behind series, here’s one of the ways I’m trying to give students a chance to interact with God’s truth…. View Post

Now that summer’s over, school and a new job have started, it’s time to get back into a writing schedule. I’m always a little anxious starting at the beginning, so I like to warm-up with a book called Kicking in the Wall by Barbara Abercrombie. Writing warm-ups are a lot like those first few minutes when you start to exercise;… View Post

For graduation, one of my mentors gave me A Writer’s Diary by Virginia Woolf. “I hope you read it slowly,” was one of the things she wrote inside the book.  So I do.  Every night before I go to sleep, I read one of Virginia’s entries. “Life piles up so fast,” she wrote on a Wednesday in March, “that I… View Post