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June 2015

June 15, 2015

Why Slow Writing is the Only Kind I Want to Do

Fallow times are as necessary for writers as they are for fields and gardens. We...

April 2015

April 07, 2015

A Blog Series on Contraception Illustrates What’s Broken in the Blogosphere…and How We Might Begin to Fix It

If we wish to nurture writing that helps us ask and grapple with answers to...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

Rethinking Margaret Sanger, Contraception, & How We are All a Moral “Mixed Bag”

A mixed bag. We are all a mixed bag. This is Theology 101, a most...

December 2014

December 30, 2014

14 Blog Posts from 2014 That You Need to Read

These are the posts written in 2014 for which I had immediate recall because they...

December 29, 2014

On Assisted Suicide and Chronic Pain, Sex and Prayer, DNA and Ice Buckets: Top 10 Posts of 2014

The 10 most-read blog posts of 2014—a list that provides a good snapshot of topics...

October 2014

October 15, 2014

Rethinking Prayer

I have struggled to pray for most of my life. Prayer has rarely made sense...

September 2014

September 08, 2014

Kids, Kidneys and Other Distractions

It's normal for me to be less productive in the final weeks of August, as...

July 2014

July 17, 2014

Why Talking Evangelical is Good for Your Blog Stats

A few months ago, I tweeted this: “Reason #437 I love being an Episcopalian: No...

May 2014

May 05, 2014

When a Viral Blog Post Doesn’t Change Much of Anything

Being a writer is primarily about writing—not about following some social media guru's five-step system...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

How the Internet is Killing the Book Review

Now that I own a Kindle, my ever-raging thirst for new reading material can be...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

My Most Popular Posts of 2013

Here's a round-up of my most popular blog posts of 2013. Perhaps there's something here...

November 2013

November 13, 2013

How to Promote Yourself (& Others) Without Driving People Crazy

In my online group of women writers, we've been discussing Kat Stoeffel's article on New York...

August 2013

August 18, 2013

On Disquiet Time and Chickens

Hello friends. I am popping in to say that I will be blogging minimally between...

June 2013

June 20, 2013

5 Truths About Blogging (IMHO)

As always happens when conflict and controversy and hurt feelings come gushing forth from the...

February 2013

February 18, 2013

Should We All Give Up Reading the Comments Section…Forever?

Two of my friends, both of whom are writers with plenty of experience in the...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

On Blogging in Response to Tragedy

As I sat on the sunny bench in my front yard on Friday afternoon, where...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Six Annoying Things that Readers Say To and About Bloggers

One commenter to my essay on the New York Times Motherlode blog last week, in...