This is it, friends, Monday, Nov. 7 “Chicken Scratch: Stories of Love, Risk & Poultry” officially launches into the world. It’s exciting and a little bit scary and so, in honor of that, I want to share an excerpt from the book – a...
Last week, my friend Karen Weiss from Waterworks Ministries in State College, PA, came over to interview me for her podcast. We had a great time sitting in the sunlit Little House on my property talking about writing as a way of paying attention to life and as a...
A sweet scent filling the produce section announces their arrival. Not the cold, hard strawberries on steroids that travel from distant destinations all year round, but the small red jewels that grow local – leaf-hidden, hovering notes of delight. These are...
It sat alone, across the muddy tractor tracks, next to the stinking porta-potties in a wide and muddy pit. Enjoying the wagon ride out to the fields, the hacksaw in hand and children all around, my husband and I hardly noticed the wide plastic sign,...
Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God. – Isaiah 40:1 There’s a comfort that enshrouds the living in the illusion of safety, swaddled in excess, removed from exposure, bundled like that boy in A Christmas Story, unable to move or effect...
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