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Release Day!
I shouldn’t tell you this. A person ought to have their secrets—their tiny little oddities, their own delicate box of hurt or passion, which they open only when they’re alone. I open mine…
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Odd Sensations That I Love
JOURNAL ENTRY #367, June 2026: When I’m sitting next to my mother—in church or on the bench outside an ice cream shop—and she reaches over to wordlessly tug my dress back over my…
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The Red Cottage
We’re made for someone. I think I’ve always believed this—that it was never about proximity, or happenchance, or who you know, or where you are. But that God, in His infinite wisdom, created…
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You Forgot Me
Granny forgot me. When I was very young, we lived two hours away from her grand and lovely Victorian-style house, on the top of a pleasant neighborhood hill. Sometimes, because I would cry…
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It’s Quiet Here
It’s so quiet here. I think I’m used to the silence. I forget that in other places, other worlds, the sound of traffic and ambulances and machines and beeping horns become normal static. Something…
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Romanticizing Autumn
Fall is such a fleeting time of year. Like blustering winds, it sweeps us away from summer, dazzles us with breathtaking colors, and chills the mornings just slowly enough that we accept the change…
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Dream Big: A Guest Post by Lucille Williams
I’m often asked, “How do you do it? How do you write a whole book? I want to write a book, but I don’t think I can. I don’t even know where to…
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The Old Folks
The old folks—my, a race, A people all their own, I used to dread the day, I’d be so stooped and grown. I used to think—my sakes, To be so pale and slow,…
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All the Quiet Places
I’m always drawn to the quiet place. The unnoticed window in a room full of chattering people. Or the shady tree with its heavy, ancient, silent arms. Or the little creek far from…
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How to Break the Habit of Worrying
There is always something that could go wrong. Something that could happen. Or not happen. Something that could sneak in from behind, pounce when you’re not looking, and make mincemeat of your perfect…
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