I was fortunate to learn about Van Velzer Press before I was ready to publish my most recent book. In my experience writing is about equal parts actually cranking out words and thinking about what to write while staring into space, waiting for the light to turn green, or trying to go to sleep. Most writers hope to share their work with readers, which requires a team of editors and advance readers who give honest, but […]
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For Goodness Sake
Do you believe goodness matters? Or that goodness is a virtue? Or that goodness is more prevalent than ugliness, rudeness, and violence? How we see the world boils down to where we look and our sources of information about the world. If we only tune into mass media information, it’s easy to fall into despair, for evil and cruelty are real and reported ad nauseum in media outlets. Yet, if we turn off the flow […]
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Mary Brewster’s Many Pregnancies
Research leads to fascinating information that can’t all fit into a novel of reasonable length. As I was researching the life of Mary Brewster, I wondered what her experiences with pregnancy and delivery might have been like. Though I didn’t include much of this information in Mary Brewster’s Love Life: Matriarch of the Mayflower, I thought others might be curious about “The Many Pregnancies of Mary Brewster.” In honor of another approaching Mother’s Day and […]
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Land of the Free?
Tomorrow is Earth Day 2023. We need more than one day a year to remember the impact homosapiens have made on the earth, but a day is better than nothing. I’ve been away this week with a few friends on a getaway to Ohio’s wonderful Amish Country. This blog is from Phoebe Morad, Executive Director of Lutherans Restoring Creation. Her passion for caring for creation is contagious and worthy of a large audience. She speaks […]
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Those Sturdy Surviving Pilgrim Women
“Those intrepid English women whose courage, fortitude, and devotion brought a new nation into being.” So reads the inscription on the Pilgrim Maiden Statue in Brewster Garden in Plymouth, MA. Those Sturdy Surviving Pilgrim Women are immortalized in the work of Henry Hudson Kitson’s sculpture, dedicated to their endurance, courage, and devotion in 1924. ”The Mayflower set sail for the New World from England in September 1620 with nineteen women among the 102 passengers. The […]
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