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This morning I attended my first-ever Hutterite funeral. It moved me. But first things...
I spent several hours yesterday in the lovely environs of Annie McGuire, an interior design...
I just signed my second book contract! The flush of excitement (fear?) isn’t nearly as overwhelming...
I’ve almost completed writing and editing (first round) on my new novel and am looking forward to...
In celebration of typing “the end” to my second novel, I brewed up a wonderful soup (made to the...
One of my favourite writers, G.K. Chesterton, once wrote a whole essay on the profound subject of...
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies...
Roots and Branches traces the image of the tree throughout the fiction of G. K...
It’s said that reading fiction requires willing suspension of disbelief. We writers strive to weave...
I’m currently in the South of France, where the countryside in warmer seasons is saturated...
Soup making is more art than science. Baking chocolate cupcakes is science, as anyone who’s added a...