The Books I read in 2011
Happy New Year! I'm kicking off 2012 on the blog by posting the books I read, fiction and nonfiction, over the past year. This is the second year I've kept a record of my reading, and while I didn't read as many books in 2011 as I did in 2010, still it's a pretty...
The Time Between Times
In ages past the Celtic tribes of Britain spoke of a Time Between Times, those blurred twilight borders between day and night, between seasons, between one year and the next. It's a time when the eyes of the earth are closing for slumber, when the sun retreats and the...
Another journey’s end
At the end of the trail..... Ah.... That's my sigh of satisfaction, having just written the real final line of the novel in progress. I wrote the last chapter weeks ago of course, only to decide it needed an epilogue to tie up some loose threads and give a better...
The Fellowship of the First Draft
This week one of my favorite authors, Susanna Kearsley talked about Letting Go (The Heroine Addicts blog), saying good-bye to one's characters. Writing that last scene in which they appear. And the wrench of sadness and loss this can bring a writer. Even if the...
Happy Thanksgiving!
Giving thanks today to the Giver of all good things. "Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and comes down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow of turning." James 1:17 "And we know that all things work together for good...
I have an idea….
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 story ideas. They find me easily enough...
Two Beautiful Rugs
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 Program....
Chemo brain: 12 years later
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 radiation...
A Trumpet with a certain sound
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...
An Interview with Liz Curtis Higgs
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 Old...
