Monday’s thing of beauty is edible or was edible, it is now a delicious memory. Diet Schmiet I told myself the last week of my sister Enid’s visit in June, let’s eat cake. Of course, it couldn’t be just any cake. It had to be Esther Bolick’s Orange Marmalade Cake. If you’ve not read Jan Karon’s […]
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“A weary world rejoices” is a line from the Christmas carol, O Holy Night. There are times in my life that a line from a song really resonates with me, and it becomes a source of meditation. Lately, this is just such a line… A weary world rejoices. It is that time of year when Christmas
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In a boot camp class for NANOWRIMO 2012, I first learned the power of a writing prompt. We started every session with a twenty-minute writing warm-up using a prompt the instructor wrote on the chalkboard. The very first prompt, on the very first class turned into the opening page of the novel I started that
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