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Why I sent a molasses article to my grammy

Yes.  I have a Grammy. In this, her 99th year, I have begun to write her letters, send her notes and articles about things like molasses and how popular it is getting all of a sudden, and a postcard left over from our road ...

Art as Refuge

Today I wandered through an art opening here in town, built around the theme of funny faces. My spirits lifted the second I walked in the gallery door. People were standing around in small groups, chit chatting as we do, especially in ...

Other people’s glittery boots

I have a friend who, in a very few short days, is starting something new and difficult in her work. It's a promotion in status and pay for sure, but it's also a promotion into anxiety and sweating and probably bad dreams ...

White Space in my Head Space

This morning I lay in bed for a few quiet moments before I had to get up and start herding cats (actually, cat singular) to church. Within that quiet, head on pillow, my mind roamed toward two solutions and one great idea. ...

When good friends don’t like good books

Recently two very good friends -- women I have swapped many a book title with -- disliked two books that I love. This was  shocking to me, in a disproportionate kind of way. One book was Gilead by Marilynne Robinson. The other was ...

In the dark in Cambodia

My sister Miriam and I were walking down a dusty street in Poipot, a border town in Cambodia, with Thailand a stones-throw away, when the darkest moment in our trip took place. I travelled with Samaritan's Purse to Cambodia in the Spring ...

One shelf. Two books. Lessons learned.

  With little book arms and little book hands, the two books I was involved with that were published this year could have reached out and touched each other. I stumbled upon them at Wycliffe College's bookstore, and, very quickly, before the hip-looking ...

What other stories can we tell?

"What other stories can we tell?" That's what my great Uncle Barry said yesterday as he sat in his wheelchair in a room in a nursing home in Hamilton. We were on a quest, my cousin Janet and I, to dig up ...

Launch, lunch and laugh

A few weeks ago, Patricia Paddey (my writing partner) and I, had the fun of attending a World Vision chapel service. We were interviewed briefly about Shifting Stats, our book published by World Vision. It was fun to see Patty (that doesn't ...

All the Fun to be had at the Canadian Church Press Conference

Last week I attended the Canadian Church Press conference, meeting with the Associated Church Press in downtown Toronto. Day one, I unintentionally broke into a parkade with my debit card, later spent 20 nervous, sweaty moments trying to find my van that ...

The Fault in my Listening

In the past week or two I have seen the fault in my listening. My husband can listen to people talk about the health ailments of their aunts in Australia. He can sit quietly and listen to a whole life story unspool ...

Best Letter to the Editor Ever

Today I was in the Faith Today offices to record our very first webinar. Very fun. The best part though was the thick, creamy envelope waiting for me there. At first, when I saw it was addressed to me and felt how ...

Karen Stiller's Newsyletter

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