I just finished reading The Matchmaker by Sarah Price. It is a retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma only Sarah’s Price novel is written from an Amish perspective and I am thinking this is really good! My question is who has read Jane Austen? I haven’t read any of Jane Austen’s books because I thought I wouldn’t […]
Writing historical fiction is an adventure. It’s a combination of time travel (but without a fabulous Tardis), storytelling, and a few dozen history lectures. With the Internet, we have a veritable smorgasbord of information. The problem comes in sifting through it all to find truth rather than supposition or utter revisionist history. I didn’t expect […]
Dubiosity: The state of being doubtful. I think that sums up the entire book pretty nicely! The book is about Savannah Harris, a woman who struggles with doubt—doubt about God, doubt about the intentions of the people around her, doubt about her own abilities. When migrant workers go missing from the town where she lives, […]
The Way She Looked At Me Just when I thought I had begun to conquer my insecurities, I had to use the bathroom. It wasn’t the bath(room) that did it to me, nor was it the act of using the facilities (although I could probably write a book on that subject—don’t ask) that shook my […]
I am “Wandering” over to my blog today with a post that I shared on Facebook. I admit it: sometimes I’m impatient, mostly because I’m such a high-energy, excitable person. Yet, recently I’ve been working really hard at being a “seed on good ground” which, in today’s world, isn’t always easy. The more I slow […]