by Connie Connally | Feb 9, 2022 | Life
Ollantaytambo, in the Andes between Cusco and Macchu Pichu My son Brendan and his wife, Erin, have lived in the Peruvian Andes for twelve years, working as missionaries among the Quechua people. (For their website, see https://sites.google.com/site/peruconnallys/. To...
by Connie Connally | Oct 21, 2021 | Life
It’s marvelous what a good literary friendship can do. A few years back, when I was fiction editor for a small literary magazine, I accepted an excellent short story submission titled “The Man Who Wore Violets.” The piece was closely based on the extradition of Nazi...
by Connie Connally | Jul 14, 2021 | Life
As a writer, one of the things I’ve enjoyed most in recent years is getting to know other writers and walking with them on their creative journey. I’ve recently become acquainted with Mary VanderGoot, a writer and psychologist in Grand Rapids, MI. Mary has written...
by Connie Connally | Jun 14, 2021 | Life
Forty-five years ago today Rory and I, as giddy 21-year-olds, got married. I can’t believe how quickly the time has past, but indeed it has. With three sons, eight grandchildren, and four-and-a-half decades together, we’re no longer giddy, but we love each...
by Connie Connally | May 15, 2021 | Life
This is the second of two posts about my visit to Peru’s Amazon region. As I mentioned in my previous post, when my husband and I traveled there with our friends Ruth and Alan, we flew into the large city of Iquitos, which is unreachable by road. If you go to...
by Connie Connally | Apr 10, 2021 | Life
In January of 2020 I took a trip to the Peruvian Amazon with my husband Rory and with close friends Ruth and Alan Tiger. The Amazon region is incredible: almost unbearably hot and humid, often inaccessible except by boat, and amazingly beautiful. The city of Iquitos,...