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Despite a puny start to my week, I am so stoked to share some wonderful book news: with our SCWC publishing, I’ll be reworking my existing ebook, Grace, Somgs, Scripture, and Spoons, and adding 20 more meditations to it – and it will be released in paperback next year in time for conference. I am… Read more
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I’ve been planning to get back on my regular writing schedule here – and life has been life-ing – so I’ve postponed often, hoping I would have a more sunny report to share soon. However, I am finally writing today, again with a gnarly pain and nerve inflammation crisis – and I am accepting that… Read more
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Y’all, we are finally at the end of our original banned books project, with my having finished books #43 and #44. I must say these two were particularly. . . taxing. . . and I am not sad to see them go. Our last two books are William Styron’s Sophie’s Choice and Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. I am… Read more
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I have been away for the last week or so as one of our most precious family members has been receiving inpatient hospice care. On Wednesday, our dear GJ passed away peacefully in hospital, surrounded by love. While we are heartbroken at her passing, our family has been blessed by many wonderful years – and… Read more
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In these days, with one of our dearest terribly ill, time feels suspended. Sitting on the other side of the clipboard as a loved one this time, I know what to expect – but I cannot help and I worry and ache deeply for all our family walking through this. My body is reacting intensely… Read more
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This Banned Books Friday, y’all, as we are nearing the end of this project, I am grouping together two books that have nothing in common – that we might finish this up next week and get on to our new banned books project I am so excited for. ❤ This week’s books are Richard Wright’s Native… Read more
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I have recommended Nina Rigg’s gorgeous memoir The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying more times than I can count, in person, in blog posts, in articles – and most certainly will again – and, this week, I have been listening to it again on audio as the world has felt crashing around us… Read more
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As I’ve written before, because I am immunocompromised, I am prone to developing pneumonias that come on quickly and (recently at least) without much warning. Fortunately, having dealt with this several times now, I know the symptoms that call for an immediate chest X-ray and antibiotic. Unfortunately, the usual antibiotic I require is ROUGH, I… Read more
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I was a church camp kid growing up, with some of my first camp summer memories made at a girls camp very much like Camp Mystic. As I’ve watched all the clips that have been shared of camp memories before the flood as well as images of what remains and seen the search for these… Read more
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Some months ago, our Banned Books Fridays derailed as did our book reporting – and it did so during time when I feel that shouting against book bans and censorship is absolutely imperative as our rights are being threatened on many fronts. (Unfortunately, surgery and sickness prevailed for a bit.) That said, both Banned Book… Read more
Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. . . Practice resurrection. – Wendell Berry
