by LoriBenton | Nov 15, 2011 | Uncategorized
It’s that time in the cycle of my writing life when I’m nearing the completion of one novel and casting about for potential new story fodder for the next. Maybe “casting” isn’t the best way to describe it. I don’t go looking for...
by LoriBenton | Oct 25, 2011 | Uncategorized
My birthday falls in autumn, and this year I decided to treat myself to a gift that means a great deal to me, and, I hope, to at least one other person I’ve never met. I chose to buy a hand-woven rug from an elderly Navajo weaver via the Adopt a Native Elder...
by LoriBenton | Oct 21, 2011 | Uncategorized
In the mail this week was a letter reminding me it’s time for a yearly check up that most women began having after they turn 40, but one I’ve had to have yearly since I was 30. The mammogram. I’m considered high risk for breast cancer, because of the...
by LoriBenton | Oct 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
And even things without life which give sound, whether flute or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is played? For if the trumpet gives an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself for the battle? 1 Corinthians 14:7-8 Today...
by LoriBenton | Oct 10, 2011 | Uncategorized
Be sure to stop in at Carrie Pagels’s blog, Overcoming Through Time, today for an interview with one of my favorite authors, Liz Curtis Higgs. Among other novels and non-fiction books (Bad Girls of the Bible, Embrace Grace) Liz writes Scottish historicals based...
