• Literary fowl

    The Cresset picked up one of my pieces about the backyard hooligans. It’s from several years back–I read it at EMU and later used it as a summer sermon at Shalom Mennonite. I’m glad it found a home in print.

    For the few brave subscribers–I’m clearly not a prolific blog updater these days. It turns out I’m a one-blog kind of woman. Most of my energy is currently going into the Tongue Screws and Testimonies site. Don’t worry, though. I’ll be back.

  • The book is out! Order it here or buy it from me.

    It was bound on Tuesday and arrived on my doorstep Wednesday afternoon.

    Just in time for Thursday’s reading!

    It was hard to believe that, after all this time, I was holding the book in my hands. I was still terrified that it would be printed backwards and checked it over carefully. It’s beautiful, of course. Herald Press does good work.

  • This is why you should self-Google every now and then: because no one will call you to tell you that your essay has been selected by Robert Atwan of the Best American series as a “distinguished submission.” A nice little honor for “Selling the Farm,” published last year in Shenandoah.

    Best American Essays 2010.

    I think this also means that Christopher Hitchens, this year’s editor, read (or at least skimmed) my essay.