The blog has a new name and a new focus. As I transition from ministry to special education teaching, I’m centering this space on my writing and creative projects, while continuing my commitment to disability advocacy. I’m also sharing details about my new short story collection, Twelve Impossible Tales for Cozy Nights, a whimsical and gently uncanny work currently in progress.
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, I wanted to share a different kind of love poem. All types of love are a blessing, especially the love we share with our canine companions. Dogs teach us so much about unconditional love on Valentine’s Day and all year long!
Introduction:This is our second winter in our new home. I have lived in many places throughout D.C. and Pennsylvania, but this area gets the most snow I have ever seen. We are in a very isolated and picturesque town in the Poconos mountains. It's so snowy here that the neighboring town of Honesdale is the…
Introduction: My New Year's Resolution has been to write more. I'm hoping to finish a novel this year -- I've never completed a lengthy work of fiction before. But when I sit down to write, I keep ending up with poems. Instead of fighting it, I'm giving thanks that God has given me any words…
In this interview with the author of Life with Nystagmus, Amanda Harris shares about her journey with vision loss and inspires others to chase their dreams.
A poem for New Year’s Eve. My New Year’s Resolution for 2025 is to write more— whether it’s poems, lesson plans, prayers or liturgies, I’m determined to make time to write in 2025.
Fall is the perfect season to curl up with a cozy mystery! Introduction: Hello, Friends! Happy Pumpkin Season! I absolutely love fall. I adore pumpkin flavoured EVERYTHING-- pumpkin coffee, pumpkin muffins, pumpkin pie! I love how the intense heat of summer is slowly giving way to cool breezes in the morning and the way I…
I had never put the two images side by side. Doing so I found them to be one and the same. The greatest part was the second photo showed a view in the opposite direction showing the houses in Nealmont, houses that are still there and were a perfect match! This was the final confirmation. I had finally located the bridge from the postcard.
Tried Three Times: The Karemendi Story is a novel based on real events. The author combines her own imagination with newspaper accounts and court transcripts to tell the story of how three-year-old Matthew Karemendi was murdered by his mother, Margaret Karemendi, and her lover, Roy Lockard, in Altoona, Pennsylvania on April 21, 1936.
The partnership of Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace was one that would change science forever.
They were an unlikely pair – one the professor son of a banker, the other the only child of an acclaimed poet and a social-reforming mathematician – but perhaps that is why their work is so revolutionary.
Night Owl Thoughts 