exploring faith through the power of stories
I discovered Harry Potter in elementary school. My best friend at school let me borrow her copy of The Chamber of Secrets, and even starting out of order, I was hooked. I have distinct memories of reading The Goblet of Fire in the back of my parent’s electric blue Explorer as we drove around Austin … Continue reading What’s Saving My Life: Bedtime Stories
This post is a bonus insert into my series on hospitality. It is also the first of this year’s book reviews. Check back next week for a post about the hospitality I experienced as I travelled around the world. I like to read and I always find myself texting and chatting up people about what I … Continue reading The Library Book
“Concorde pears…try them before they’re gone!” Advertising got me. So, I snagged three bruised up Concorde pears and dropped them in my thin plastic produce bag just in case they really were going, going, gone. I got home from the grocery store and tossed them in a canvas New Yorker bag and let them wait … Continue reading New Fruit, New Rhythms: My First Writing Retreat
This blog is a space where I process the intersection of my daily life—the beautiful and complicated—with my faith in and through Christ. I wrote in this other post about how growing up in the church I received the message that I could only know God—and therefore please God—by having a daily “quiet time.” For … Continue reading Lamplight Studies: An Introduction
What’s saving my life right now? The library. My parents read to me every night before bed, long before Kindergarten—basically since I was born. My favorite book was Peter Rabbit. I was a stickler for the story. I had memorized every word and if they skipped so much as a “the” in an effort to … Continue reading “having fun isn’t hard, when you’ve got a library card” – Arthur
