In my home, there’s a tiny room where dreams come to life. The walls are lined with shelves, and books tower from floor to ceiling. Everywhere your eye settles is another story breathed onto the page through the imagination of the authors. It is a room for dreaming, for surrounding myself with what could be–a room where stories unfold and…
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Journey to Resurrection: A Holy Week Audio Devotional
“Things fall apart; The centre cannot hold…”~WB Yeats I stopped at the store last week to buy cashews and makeup remover, and found the aisles cluttered with packs of glitter dye and impossible towers of pastel baskets. I realized then how much I still have to accomplish before Easter. My children are teenagers, but they still love eggs stuffed with…
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Why Our Words Matter
Three times in the past week various acquaintances have referred to my work as “little”. As in, “I like your little thoughts you put online” or “Your little posts are sweet.” Insert invisible eye roll. If they only knew the amount of hours and planning it takes for these “little” thoughts to percolate, bubble to the surface, and fizz out…
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How to Make a Difference without a Platform, a Pulpit, or Political Office
Last term, I had my writing class listen to a speech given by Elie Wiesel called The Perils of Indifference, which he gave as part of the Millennium Lecture series at the White House. While some students nodded off to the hypnotic sound of Wiesel’s voice, he held me captive as he recounted what it felt like to lose hope as a…
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New Art for Your Everyday Enjoyment: iola magazine
***This giveaway is now closed. Thanks for reading!*** In my twenties, my husband and I rented a furnished terraced home in southwest London. We slept in someone else’s bed, ate dinner at their long refectory table, and pretended we enjoyed their unusual taste in art. After two years spent living in a home designed for someone else, I was entirely…
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