Rest
Welcome to August, a month that languishes--or perhaps ought to, were it not filled with back-to-school busy-ness. These are dog days, warm and slow--or so we wish. A time to just relax, enjoy long days. [...]
Too Busy to Take the Call (Even from God)
How many of us looked at the calendar this week and cried, "What? It's almost August?? How did that happen? summer is flying by!" So often we think of summer as a slower time. There [...]
Book tour
Augustine asserted, “God loves each of us like an only child.” You may not believe that. Or perhaps you do believe it on an intellectual or theological level, but you don’t feel it. You have [...]
Deeply Loved, part 2
How honest can you be on the page? When you read a non-fiction book (but not a memoir) how much do you really want to know about the author’s life? A few months ago, I [...]
Deeply Loved
It's an odd feeling, reading words you've written. The process of writing a book takes long enough that you sometimes forget what you've written. After several months on the editor's desk, I received my edited [...]
What Title IX gave women
I rarely find myself getting verklempt when reading Sports Illustrated. Truth be told, I rarely read Sports Illustrated. I'm not a fan of a particular annual issue that is a tad, um, tawdry. But the [...]
Christian venom
Fellow Redbud Writer Halee Gray Scott has a very interesting and controversial post up on the Christianity Today women's blog. It's generated a flood of comments, many of them simply mean. Of course, she picked [...]
Labor in vain…
Standing at the kitchen sink, my peripheral vision catches a glimpse of something flitting past the window. I hear the uncomfortable sound of scratching, rustling, against the aluminum siding. I walk to the back door and look [...]
Answering the call to write
About a month ago, several of the Redbud Writers and I sat on tall chairs in Johnsen & Taylor bookstore in Wheaton, and chatted about how to combine motherhood and writing. Some 30 to 40 [...]
Please welcome Frank Peretti!
I have the huge honor of a "virtual visit" today from best-selling author Frank Peretti, as part of the Ask Frank blog tour. I remember reading his book This Present Darkness and being blown away [...]