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Going back to the beginning
Thanks to a spring cleaning kick I've been on the past month, I've done some digging, prioritizing, rearranging... and then some. When I stumbled upon my stack of old writing notebooks, I couldn't help but smile. Just look at that handwriting? Bear in mind, I was in...
Are you living a good story?
While writing a script based on his memoir, Blue Like Jazz, author Donald Miller took a good hard look at his life and the story he was living. If only we all had moments like this to make us look at our lives the same way. Fortunately, Miller wrote "A Million Miles...
Story Behind the Story: Michelle Griep
There’s an old family story my mom told me about my gramma, Clara Brekke. Sometime back in the early 1900’s, Clara’s father took her two-year-old sister and walked out the front door. Just like that. No bags packed. Not a word about where they were going or when...
Book Review: To Win Her Heart
Description: Having completed his sentence for the unintentional crime that derailed his youthful plans for fame and fortune, Levi Grant looks to start over in the town of Spencer, Texas. Spencer needs a blacksmith, a trade he learned at his father's knee, and he...
Book Review: No Place Like Holmes
Description: The new resident in 221A Baker Street is about to give Sherlock Holmes a run for his magnifying glass! When Griffin is sent to stay with his detective uncle at 221A Baker Street for the summer, he is certain that his uncle must be the great Sherlock...
Book Review: Larkspur Cove
Description: Adventure is the last thing on Andrea Henderson's mind when she moves to Moses Lake. After surviving the worst year of her life, she's struggling to build a new life for herself and her son as a social worker. Perhaps in doing a job that makes a...
Book Review: Here Burns My Candle
Description: A mother who cannot face her future. A daughter who cannot escape her past. Lady Elisabeth Kerr is a keeper of secrets. A Highlander by birth and a Lowlander by marriage, she honors the auld ways, even as doubts and fears stir deep within her. Her...
Experiment Results
There came to be a flaw in my experiment parameters: that I could actually escape email and other responsibilities. I instead interviewed a source for an article and spent lunch time with my sister. Overall a great day but not very productive. Perhaps I'll try again....
Friday “Experiment”
Greetings, Today, I'm conducting a personal experiment. In light of a ton of personal time I've accrued at my work, I decided to take a mental health day and devote a day to writing, reflection and prayer. No internet. No email. No phone calls. No pleading puppy dog...
The Coming Spring
I don't know about you, but I really needed some sunshine these past few days. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so I'm no stranger to rain—torrential downpours, actually. Usually, it doesn't really bother me. This year, it did, just a bit. So when the flowers began to...