My heart is heavy this week, friends. I give you fair warning: this post contains much talk of scripture and…
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I’ve been thinking about “home” quite a bit lately, and about “building home”. The view from my current “home”. Not…
Read MoreThe Other Side
I give you fair warning, friends: it’s about to get all biblical – and poetical – up in here. *NOTE: If…
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I don’t know how things are at your house, but in the Nelson homestead, 2019 has begun with a whimper…
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Friends, The Ancient launched this week. On Sunday, November 25, 2018, my first post-Gatekeeper novel child set out to meet…
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There are times when running can be absolute bliss. (There are, of course, also times when it can be the…
Read MoreElves, Effort, and T. S. Eliot
If you’ve read even a small portion of this blog, you know that I am rather fond of J. R.…
Read MoreHome-Work; or, Poetry Strikes Again
Working from home can be a tricky business. Someone asked me the other day how the whole writing thing works…
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