It was a hot west Texas day in Amarillo, and I was going to be teaching at a writers’ conference. I came in a day earlier to “play” with a writer friend, Deborah Elliott-Upton, who I’d met a couple years earlier at the same conference. We had hit it off right away the first time,… Continue reading Friends in Faith: Deborah Elliott-Upton
Category: Memoir
Who Did Jesus Love Best?
Note: On Saturdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. When I was in my early teens, I had a best friend. But we ended up in different homerooms the following year, and only saw each other for a class or… Continue reading Who Did Jesus Love Best?
Where Good and God Reside
Note: On Saturdays, you can find me at Your Daily Tripod, owned by my friend TonyD. A longer version of the post below appears there. Many of you probably did the same things I did during the summer between sixth and seventh grade: took part in the library’s summer reading program; went swimming; did some neighborhood… Continue reading Where Good and God Reside
On the Nightstand: Redeemed (Again)
In addition to being sisters in Christ, Pam Spano and I are sister fan girls of Heather King, who has described herself as an ex-attorney, recovering alcoholic Catholic convert (and who I think is among the best memoirists writing today). So when Pam messaged me the top cover of Redeemed: Stumbling Toward God, Sanity, and… Continue reading On the Nightstand: Redeemed (Again)