As I thought about my new release, Passing Strangers, I began to think about the possibility of random strangers I meet who have influenced my life–or vice versa. For instance, coming home from Kansas City last weekend, I sat next to a young actor from New York...
Hi, everybody! First, a big thank you and howdy to the folks in Kansas City–those who belong to the Heart of American Christian Writers’ Network (HACWN). (I hope I got those initials right). I spent all day yesterday with them, teaching and swapping...
Intrepid. The word is usually applied to people who climb Mt. Everest or explore the North Pole. But today, in fact all this week, I have been applying it to myself, though others might look at what I’ve been doing and call me foolhardy. I come by my sense of...
Hi, everybody! First, happy birthday to my daughter today, for whom I made a vanilla cake with buttercream frosting as per her request. 🙂 I’m leaving to go out of town tomorrow, so I hope everyone in the family eats that huge cake before I get back. (I...
I owe a big “thank you” to the nearly 400 people who answered my poll about being wounded by the church. I’m still sorting through all the personal comments you left (and I am getting my dissertation written!), but I wanted to share some of the...
