I’m a mess. Mary Karr and Rodney Crowell understand. Ed Sheeran gets it. Life is messy. Spirituality is messy. One…
When I got home from my day trip to Jackson on Monday, I stepped out of my car and immediately…
This will be a short post. I just returned from a day trip to Jackson (Mississippi) to visit my mother.…
My dear friend, Charli Riggle, has written a wonderful children’s book about Pascha. Catherine’s Pascha: A Celebration of Easter in…
As I begin yet another round of revisions on my novel, Cherry Bomb, I’m searching for inspiration for the difficult—but…
Having just spent an hour reading through some of my favorite and most helpful passages in Kathleen Norris’s book, Acedia…
As a little girl I had trouble sleeping. I was what my parents called a “worry wart.” When my head…
Yesterday morning I had coffee with a wonderful writer/friend who has become a sort of mentor to me in both…
Don’t blink. Life seems to go by so much faster as we get older, doesn’t it? Sometimes it scares me…
Angela Doll Carlson (don’t you just love her name?) and I have never met in person, but I feel like…