Working out personal questions of faith within a novel might not be the best thing; however, it works for me. [Two novels I’ve discussed within these pages, of course, that attempt to do the same thing are Mary Doria Russell’s The Sparrow and The Children of God, both of the science fiction genre, which I […]
Marriage
Dan and I will have been married 18 years in June, and I’m sure Dan would agree with me, as I with him, that we are not the same two people who exchanged wedding vows on that warm summer evening in 1991. The importance of that statement (not being the same people) cannot be explained […]
So Much To Say
Yesterday morning, I received the most haunting and devastating e-mail from a long-lost friend. All day, his e-mail hung in the foreground of my mind, and I couldn’t shake it. It’s one of those correspondences that makes you shiver, shake, and cry, and immediately, you want to drive over to where he is, and wrap […]