My sister has taken a risk and written brave words about fostering 6 teenage boys. I’m so proud of her. ______________________________ Are you writing brave words in April? We have a small community here who would love to read them. I would love to read them. Please let us know on the FB page or link […]
Write Brave Words
Some women on my homeschool forum are taking a 30-day challenge to write every day in April, kind of a “break the lull in writing” kind of thing. I love this stuff. But if October taught me anything, it’s that writing (and publishing) every day for a month becomes impossibly hard. You know, life and all […]
Wednesdays In The Word: John 1:24-28
Why do you do the things that you do? Are you acting on the dreams in your heart? Are you living out the desires God has formed? Are you being obedient to a call? You are? What gives you the right? ________________________ I BAPTIZE WITH WATER (Now they had been sent from the Pharisees.) They […]
31 Days Revisited
Now that we are a good thirteen days into November–a good thirteen days into ignoring my computer almost completely–I think I’m ready to wrap up the loose ends of last month’s blogging challenge. Man, it was a great month. It really was. Except for the last ten days of the month in which this entire household […]
End of 31 Days
Day 31. We made it, huh? I must admit, sitting here staring at the screen right now feels a little bit like staring down the fire hydrant that is at the end of my (not-very-frequent) morning run. Each time I’m panting toward it this battle wages in my head: “Okay, there’s the fire hydrant. I just have […]
Should The Writer Write?
(The comments on this post are excellent and profound. They bless me again, years later, and offer a better answer than my own post to the question “Should The Writer Write?”) When these 31 days of writing have ended I will do a follow-up post about what I’ve learned–and I have been learning. But I want […]
When The Husband Leaves
When the husband leaves I think, “this means a whole night of writing!” and immediately begin forming blog posts in my head. But that’s when I’m shaping meat into patties. By the time I’m putting a lid on the salad, I’m onto a third blog post, which will meet a timely and catchy conclusion as the last […]
Perform
There was a huge barrier to writing–and see, here I am writing about writing again, despite my noblest of intentions–that had its roots in a pressure to perform. One could say the same for living, for being. The pressure to perform draped my existence much the way a wet wool sweater might: heavy, weighing down. […]
The Writer Writing
“As I write these words, dust drifts across the floor. Stacks of urgent mail grow tall. The dollhouse curtains stay unmade. Laundry ripens. I need you to understand that I write because poems do not break. They do not follow a clock. Like us, they breathe the air of hamburgers frying, but it is air […]
The Writer Climbing
We hiked our favorite trail today before the sun arched high in the sky, and I remembered a hike we’d taken when Eddie was still an infant. It had felt like such a milestone then, to be out there on my own with five children. Now there are six, and somehow six seems easier than five. Today I had […]