Category: Strings of Words
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Announcing Anonymouse
This week I went to the post office and then bought myself a strawberry milkshake and both of those events are more significant than they might sound. You see, I enjoyed milkshakes with Eddie Ogan when I first met and interviewed her about her story (which turned into my first book, Always Plenty). At this…
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we’ll meet again
I wrote this piece in late September while the feelings were fresh. I heard this week that Eddie went home. Not her home I described in Always Plenty with the two bedrooms and creaky floors, but her forever home. She went to be with her family. Not Ocy and Darlene and the rest, but her…
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the view from the top
I recently had the privilege of traveling up to Arkansas and spending some time getting to know the people and places of my boyfriend’s childhood. Beaver Lake was cool and clear and some of the trees were just beginning to blush. However, though our time in Arkansas was so sweet, I needed my traditional day…
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musings on mice and mail
When I was a teenager, a friend challenged me to face my current bout of writer’s block by sitting down and writing a short story, just for fun, about something I love. The result was a tale about a mouse living in a P.O. box; mice and mail being two literary themes I’m continually drawn…
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In which I blog as worship
Why do people choose to have children? It’s something I occasionally ponder. As someone who has known she wanted to have children since she was a child, you’d think I’d have an answer to this. I am sure the answer is longer than a blog post and pertains to more theology, sociology, biology and psychology…
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An Old Fashioned Blog
Hello World, That’s the way we used to begin. We used to open our laptops with trepidation, like the internet was some honorable, holy thing. We’d click out our humble opinions with some anxiety. Why should anyone hear from little ol’ me? But what if they don’t? Those days are gone. I’ve been blogging for…
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what makes me smile: summer 2016
April 14, 2016: published Always Plenty. May 2nd, 2016: started working as a retail associate at a boutique. And now we are nearing the conclusion of my beloved June, once again and I’ve barely blogged this year. I am not apologizing. Between writing, illustrating and publishing a book, job hunting and work, 2016 has been brimming. Shortly after…
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A Book is Born!
Dear friends, I am so excited to announce that Always Plenty is now available on Amazon in both paperback and Kindle! My lifelong dream of being a published author/illustrator came true TODAY. I can’t believe it has really happened! I am sharing more about the whole journey on Kindred Grace. Thank you, thank you for your support,…
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wisdom, knowledge and joyfulness: part four
“For everything that happens in life—there is a season, a right time for everything under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1 That is probably an appropriate passage to begin with. March was a right time for many things, but blogging was not one of them. You could say, “There is a time to blog and a time to…
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wisdom, knowledge and joyfulness {a new series}
“Words, words, words! So many words! They are wearisome things; and yet people cannot refrain from speaking.” Ecclesiastes 1:8 When I got the idea for this series, I was in the midst of a personal crisis. I was working as a front desk receptionist in a small office. My job was to answer phone calls…
Caroline Rose Sanders 