Thanks for the hand-up.
Hi, Jack, Ronnie and Dottie! Thanks for holding out the lifeline. I think I’ve got a firm hold now. At the age of 52, I think I’m really ready to start pulling on my end. ¡Adiós! Sara Find me on...
View ArticleDorothy Sayers, author of Mind of the Maker
as a young lady This is a lovely photo of Dorothy Sayers as a young lady.
View ArticleA blog called Making Amens!
Making Praying HandsAlbrecht Durer Dear Friends, I’ve decided to start a blog called “Making Amens!” to chart my journeys, and to continue conversations I have begun with friends and in my mind over...
View ArticleJuly Awe: Blue Moon over the Monuments
There was a Blue Moon on July 31st. A blue moon is the second full moon that occurs in a month, and unfortunately didn’t involve any actual blueness. Regardless, we decided to go down to the National...
View ArticleDay 0: An Unexpected Poll
Proverbs 16:9! And we are on the way! Yesterday my sister-in-law was wishing us a great trip, and I realized that I feel like a Hobbit. I’ve been doing so much packing and arranging, and I’d rather...
View ArticleDay 1: Rivendell and Moria
Saying we’ve had no cell reception would be a vast understatement. :). Thus, a quick update is called for! Editorial note: license taken with chronology of actual events. Rivendell needs...
View ArticleDay 2: Saruman & Rohan
The Fellowship and the Ents besiege Saruman. Knoxville, TN Sunsphere Cahokia Mounds settlement=Rohan! Just east of St. Louis.
View ArticleDay 3: Light the Beacon, Pippin!
St. Louis arch seen from the top of Monk’s Mound, Cahokia settlement. Almost like leaping through time… And the march goes on: Clinton State Park, Kansas.
View ArticleDay 10: The Shire!
The day for summing things up has arrived. Where have I been? What happened to the Ring? Like Aragorn, or perhaps Strider, I’ve been in exile and wondering what went wrong. Looking back at my...
View ArticleA failure to communicate: “Shaka, when the walls fell!”
If only we could learn to speak the language of the Tamarians in Star Trek the Next Generation, then perhaps the left and the right in this country could begin to understand each other. In Season 5 –...
View ArticleTeaching myself!
One of the goals I have for this blog is just as a personal starting point for what I am learning. I’ve begun in the past few months to expressing myself in story. So here’s what happened the other...
View ArticleA fool for a teacher…
3 Tips on Teaching Myself There is a saying by Sir William Osler (2nd from right in photo), one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital: “A physician who treats himself has a fool for...
View ArticleProtests: peaceful v. violent #BlackLivesMatter
A decade or so ago, I had a conversation with my father about a violent protest that had recently occurred. You see, the issue that #BlackLivesMatter is confronting has been going on for a great while...
View ArticleInklings Weekend
This weekend I’m going to a retreat focused on one of my favorite topics/group of authors: The Inklings. Driving down early tomorrow to North Carolina, and I will spend lovely hours of discussion and...
View ArticleSmythies, a new writing fellowship on Meetup
Although many of you do live far away, I want to share with all of you a Meetup group I am forming in the spirit of the Inklings, the writing fellowship of C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. If you, or a...
View ArticleA good commander.
A good commander is benevolent and unconcerned with fame. ~Sun Tzu And maybe also unconcerned with the opinions of others? And yet I realize that acting like you don’t care for fame is one way to...
View ArticleIn the image of the Maker
I remember reading an interview of a favorite author in which he was asked why he had “killed” such-and-such a character. He responded by saying, “I didn’t kill them. I found them there dead on the...
View ArticleShut*down
Shut — doors closed. Do not enter. Or leave. Like a mouth that cannot speak. How is a shutdown different from a shut up? To shut my mouth, I have to lift my lower jaw, hence the “up”. An agency when...
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