I’m reading an incredible book right now—Inside the Dementia Epidemic: A Daughter’s Memoir by Martha Stennius. I downloaded it to…
This morning I woke up thinking about faith, as I often do on Friday mornings. After saying my morning prayers…
“Poetry is never finished; it is only abandoned.”—W. H. Auden A similar quote, “Art is never finished, only abandoned,” is…
This is a week for grieving. A dear woman in our church passed away last week, after a seven-year battle…
When I was visiting my mother in the nursing home this past Monday, I found several “prayer cards”…
Just over three years ago one of my many query letters for my novel, Cherry Bomb, caught the attention…
In Richard Rohr’s Daily Meditation for today, he says: … it is our experiences that transform us—if we are willing…
I have read dozens of books about prayer—including my favorites from the Orthodox spiritual tradition, like Beginning to Pray, Courage…
While scanning the archives of Writers Digest (looking for something else) this morning, I ran across this guest piece in…
We have a king-size bed with six personal pillows and five decorative ones. We sleep under two light-weight blankets, and…