I love this week between Christmas Day and New Year’s Day! After the busy time of shopping and gifting and cooking and hosting, it’s wonderful to sink back into the chair of “it’s all over!” These days do have their hazards, though. This little breakup note to the Christmas leftovers is a poem I wrote… Continue reading Dear After-Christmas Leftovers
Captivated Puffy white lambs in the sky. Iridescent dragonflies. Furry bees. Jewel birds flitting and fluting the forest with warbles and calls. A plush rabbit’s coat. Moist velvet tickle of a horse’s nose. He, smooth, agile, muscular climbing a palm. These globes just above me hanging from this tree God has forbidden their glossy roundness… Continue reading SJT – Doubt (Captivated)
The Ishbane Conspiracy by Angela Alcorn My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Sometimes the best way to see a thing is to look at its opposite,” says Randy Alcorn, quoting A.W. Tozer in his “Note to Readers.” The opposite is something of which we get large chunks in The Ishbane Conspiracy—a novel by Alcorn and… Continue reading The Ishbane Conspiracy (review)
Violet Nesdoly 