I took piano lessons for seven years when I was a kid. My teacher was old school—we were only allowed…
I’ve been reading the book my husband gave me for Christmas this week. (It finally made its way up the…
Last October I shared some of the feedback from the editor I was working with on revisions to my novel,…
This morning I finished reading an interesting book—Fifth Business by Canadian author Robertson Davies (Viking Press, 1970). I’m not going…
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…