Using story to connect YOU to the Master Storyteller
"Pack the pictures, bowls, and quilts. Oh, and the books. Then finish Wrong about Mr. Wright. Oh, and 12 Dates of Christmas and Christmas on Breakers Point. What else...?"My email answered. A friendly reminder that a book I didn't know I'd signed up for needed to be reviewed. By … [Read more...]
There’s something strange about coming “home” to Mom’s house here in Noel. See, although we lived here for almost a year when I was a teenager, I never lived in Mom’s house. We lived one street over back then… and then on the other side of the bridge on Lorene Street, but that doesn’t matter, I … [Read more...]
The plane took off for Springfield at 8:00 sharp. Seated behind two families with babies and toddlers, the screeching began before we’d made it off the tarmac. I’ve got nine kids. I get it.Still, with that kind of noise, I couldn’t write. I was also headed to my mom’s house for an … [Read more...]
There’s a certain finality when you take an idea—a thought, even—and verbalize it. It’s no longer something nebulous in your mind and heart. Left there, deep in side where only you and the Lord can see, ideas can languish forever. Say it, and you have to act on them or reject them. It was time, and … [Read more...]
The words played out on the page in vivid hues. Each word, each turn of phrase. I felt… lived them, even, rather than read them. It was ages ago… a decade. More.Beyond a Doubt, I think was the title. I remember hearing a soundtrack playing in my mind as I read—just as if the book had transformed … [Read more...]
I don’t know who pointed her out to me, but I will never forget the moment she turned and I could see her. Xochitl Dixon. I’d heard amazing things about this woman, and couldn’t wait to meet her.You know, technically, I never did. Oh, sure. I was introduced. We said hi. I’m pretty sure that at … [Read more...]
Dishes clinked, silverware rattled, and 80s music that I didn’t like when it was popular pulsed through Denny’s. Clark sat across from me, ready to talk about The Agency Files. You know Clark. THIS GUY?I had a nebulous idea… fledgling. I wanted Flynne to be forced to play agent. Clark … [Read more...]
