When Plans Change
I always wanted to be a teacher. I wanted to be Miss Beadle when I grew up: smart, kind, firm, a talented teacher with great ideas. My...
Logophiles Unite!
My nerdiness extends down many avenues, side-streets, and dark alleys. I like obscure historical facts, baffling scientific studies, and...
The Next Reading Challenge
You all have watched me plod through my annual Fiction Fast, and I've shared my insights from Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: How the...
What did the librarian say on September 6?
Happy National Read A Book Day! What is your favorite book? It's a joke among bibliophiles that we can never pick just one. We tend to go...
Do you remember?
I am still in awe of the memorization skills of Laura Ingalls as a teenager, when she and one other girl (whose name escapes me) recited...
The Golden Light
My week is not complete until I spend a morning at the lake with a cup of coffee and a book. All summer long, I have enjoyed the shade...
The Pieces Make a Whole
Have you ever bought a hand-made quilt? Not a machine-made, mass-produced item with matching shams, but a cut-and-sewn masterpiece? I've...
The Decadence of God
How blessed is the man who does not walk in the way of the wicked... But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And on His law he...
Swirling Mists of Distraction
There's a reason why writer's crave solitude. When the business of life distracts us, nothing gets accomplished. I have ideas floating...
Annual Fiction Fast 2017
Every year I participate in a Fiction Fast. I read a lot of books. For 11 months of the year, these are mostly murder mysteries,...
