Some writers climb mountains for research. I seem to take a more… involuntary approach. When I wrote my first novel for children, it featured a dramatic tumble off a horse. [...]
Every January at our church, we receive a Star Word—a single quality to sit with all year, something to meditate on, resist, or grow into. Mine this year is intuition. [...]
Deep relationships fill the heart as nothing else can. This month I’m struck with the timeliness of David Brooks’s new book, How to Know a Person. He discusses principles that I [...]
Writing the Anthony saga requires gathering and sifting through a lot of historical tidbits. And that requires organization! After the holidays I got bitten by the decluttering bug, resulting in [...]
