The first time I went to the Festival of Faith and Writing at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, it was to hear the writer Anne Lamott speak. She was her warm, funny self, full of writing and life advice for an auditorium that lapped up her words like we were kittens. I’ve long been a […]
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I’m no farmer. But when I saw this little painting at an art show in our neighbourhood, I wondered if I should think of myself as one, at least for a little while. I resonated with the image immediately and it brought [inevitable, predictable] tears to my eyes. I thought how much work this woman
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In July of 2022 I signed a book contract with NavPress. It flickered through my mind back then to post one of those “author signs her contract” photos on Facebook, but being a person with a certain doomsday posture, I did not. Sitting at the table at our cottage, my eyes had instantly landed on
A new book is coming Read More »
Here is some of what has been good, because I know you would have told me to look for it, and to reach toward it and name it when I find it. Our children. How they reach out across the chasm you left and toward each other, and me. Your family and how they did
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Our church in Ottawa asks people of the pews to share on Good Friday, and last year I was one of them. Each speaker is assigned a portion of scripture which are the words Jesus spoke from the cross. “Why did I get the ‘“Eloi, Eloi, lama sab ach thani’ reading?” I asked Brent. I
