We talked for a long time that night, this growing-up child and me. It had been a hard day: tears, a temper, frustrations, poor choices, consequences. We rested on a twin bed together, equally exhausted by the struggles of…
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12 Best Practices for Finding Time, Energy, and Inspiration to Write + A Prayer for Writers
These notes are from a writer’s workshop I presented at Princeton Theological Seminary’s Frederick Buechner Writer’s Workshop on June 7-8, 2017. It’s not the full workshop or prayer, of course, since much of that is improvised on the spot followed by…
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‘Twas my own heart, dilly-dilly :: on Manchester and more
We were all done having babies, our big three now bright persons in their own right, when Maggie was born. We had to get a new crib, a new car seat, new baby clothes: everything new but the books. We…
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Why you need to watch the new Anne series – yes, I’m talking to you, fellow purists
****this post contains a few spoilers for the new Anne series so stop reading if you don’t want to know*** When our eldest daughter was born, I did a very poor job of pretending we were not settled on a…
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So I quit drinking.
One of my most vivid childhood memories is of my mother and my father standing at our kitchen sink in Winnipeg surrounded by the last empty bottles, big smiles on their faces as my mother poured each one out. The…
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