On My Husband’s Retirement: Honoring a Career Done Well
Sometimes I go for months without anything “blog-worthy” happening. But the past few months have been so full of significance I hardly know how to sort things out. My husband retired, we traveled to Peru, and my book was released. On top of this, two of our...A Post on a Friend’s Blog
Just as The Songs We Hide was being released, my friend and fellow author Iris Graville invited me to write a guest post about it on her blog. This was an honor, because Iris is not only a talented writer but a thoughtful Quaker who promotes what is wise and good. I...Congratulations to some writer friends: Iris Graville, Janet Buttenwieser and Joe Ponepinto
My excellent MFA program, Northwest Institute of Literary Arts (NILA), closed a year and a half ago, and it was a sad event for all of us who had loved the program. Nevertheless, this has been a fruitful year for NILA grads. Last September Iris Graville’s memoir...Heart and Understanding: Adopting a Foreign Culture as a Writer
My son Brendan is a missionary in Peru. He and his wife and children live high in the Andes among the Quechua people. He uses the Quechua language daily, as well as Spanish. Brendan and his family eat the foods of the region (including guinea pig) and are observant of...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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