The Great Book Purge Let me be clear from the start—this blog post isn’t about someone saying which books you should or shouldn’t read. It’s a short story about downsizing books and reckoni [ Read More ]
It was the summer brokenness caught up with my family, that year 2022. I’d rented a beach house on the water, an outrageous move coming off a grand-finale of losses, culminating in a separation a [ Read More ]
The early pages of my life were void of God. I grew up in a wonderful family, a moral family, but we didn’t own a Bible or go to church. I didn’t have a concept of a Creator, or that my sins we [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Maureen Miller
I’ve loved story for as long as I can remember. My earliest memories stem from childhood, when I was a mere tot of two. Day after day, Momma and I swung on the front porch of our downtown-Dayton [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Jennifer Haynie
Animals have been a part of my life ever since I can remember. We had a short-haired Dachshund named Ute when I was little. Not the nicest dog from what I remember. Then we had Spice, a long-haired [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Sara Davison
On Story Collections and Playing With Other Genres I’ve always wanted to write books, and night after night spent reading The Bobbsey Twins with a flashlight under the covers nudged me in the dir [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – by Jennifer Tirrell
Our white New England church sat facing the common, tucked neatly into a “v” where two narrow roads met. A cemetery rested behind it, the weathered stones bearing witness to generations who had [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Ronda Wells
My parents claimed I memorized the Mother Goose book by age two. Not that I was reading it, mind you. Mom read to me; Dad did too, but as a teacher/preacher he was a constant reader. I come from a [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Eva Marie Everson
The worst thing about being sick, for me (besides the actual being sick) is that I have to stop. Stop what I’m doing (usually working) and just lie there and look around at the place I call & [ Read More ]
Pages of My Life – Lynn Lanning
by Lynn Lannin I must confess. I haven’t always loved to read. Strangely enough, I have always loved to write. As a child, my grandmother, who raised me, always read to me sometime during the day [ Read More ]