My Book Just Won a Contest

My book just won a contest with Ink Smith Publishing!!!

I'm exclamation pointing it up all over the place!!! It's embarrassing.

Not really. Let's have a few more for good measure.

!!!!!!!

There. I feel better. ! (oops, another just slipped out)

You'll find the announcement right HERE!

Food for Thought

Fairy tales are more than true; 

not because they tell us that dragons exist; 

but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten. 

G.K. Chesterton

Squeaky Clean Book Recommendations

Recently, a friend asked for squeaky clean book recommendations for her book club. It can be tough to find perfectly clean adult fiction (or non-fiction for that matter). And sometimes you want it for your church group or your mother/daughter book club, or just because you don't like reading dirty words, or dirty various other things. Here are four of my favorites. They're all lovely to read and make for good discussion. Enjoy!

Fiction:

Peace Like a River by Lief Enger
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

Non-fiction:

A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry by Wendell Berry and Norman Wirzba

Getting Started

If you've found your way here, I must tell you that this isn't quite active yet. I mean it's active in that it exists, but it's not active as in I'm going to be posting on it all the time. At this point, I'm working to get it up and running. After that's all settled, well, then we can get our fabulousness on.