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January 06, 2013

The Anniversary of My Father’s Death

“After the first exile, there is no other.” —Rosellen Brown, The Autobiography of My Mother,...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

The Poetry of Married Love

When my husband was told he’d have quadruple bypass surgery the next day, we were—believe...

December 16, 2012

The Christmas I Sat Next to a Sex Offender

Last year my husband and I celebrated our first Christmas with our infant daughter. She...

November 2012

November 30, 2012

The Cost of Writing the Truth

I remember my mother used to go to bed for the day. The blackness of...

November 20, 2012

How To Accomplish Love

From time to time, a big sheet of butcher paper goes up on the wall...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

To Live by the Light of Fiction

“In the end, a story is never going to make a damn bit of difference...

October 14, 2012

Mending Our Mother-Daughter Story

I finally saw Brave this past weekend, and I can definitely say that I had...

October 11, 2012

Blessed Are the Tentmakers

For my daughter, Evangeline Sofia, who celebrated her first birthday on the second day of...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

My Mother’s Lullabies

My mother used to sing us to sleep. Her lullabies weren’t choruses of “Twinkle, Twinkle...

September 25, 2012

Raising Sons and Raising Men

This past Saturday, on a brilliant fall morning, my eight-year-old son came bounding downstairs for...

September 23, 2012

A Story About Beauty

I have my father’s hands I have my mother’s tongue I look for redemption in...

September 17, 2012

Torah Revealed and Withheld: Part One

Now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your son. Genesis...

September 11, 2012

If This Isn’t an Emergency, Please Hang up and Dial 9/11

I was there. I should know better than to go about my days like this....

September 10, 2012

A Heart Exposed

By Jessica Eddings-Roeser Guest Post My husband is asleep in bed, snuggled under our powder...

August 2012

August 27, 2012

Orthodoxy and the Returns of Love

This summer marks the eleventh year of my conversion. I’ve spent the past eleven years...

August 17, 2012

My Online Footprint

Part Two: Repentance In Part One of this post, aptly subtitled “Resistance” by our new...

August 16, 2012

Gethsemane Companions

To David T., David R., Anna, Tyler, Jamie, Jenny, Jake, Jillian, and the rest Over...

August 15, 2012

Parenting 101

The latest fashionable parenting wisdom is that a parent’s wisdom doesn’t matter. Some public intellectuals...

August 10, 2012

The Final Chapter in a Promising Young Life

I was driving when it occurred to me that it has been twenty years since...

August 09, 2012

Taming the Busy Trap

I’m emerging from one of the busiest seasons of my life. My wedding and a...

August 08, 2012

The Boy Who Lived Large

Friday we took the kids out of school early and hit the road for Aiken,...

August 07, 2012

The Summer I Wasn’t Attacked by a Shark

Guest Post By Cathy Warner Jaws is released the summer I turn fourteen, and my...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

In the Company of Women, Part 2

“You’re the sort of man who can’t know anyone intimately, least of all a woman.”...

July 30, 2012

In the Company of Women, Part 1

This two-part post is dedicated to the summertime brides of Good Letters. Congratulations to Allison...

July 26, 2012

Heading Home on the Back Roads

Today Good Letters welcomes back former blogger Dyana Herron as a regular contributor. Dyana is...

July 23, 2012

Depression, Gift, and Legacy

For Johnny, of course My mother has been dead a year now, and it has...

July 20, 2012

The Glen Workshop: My New Local Church

I don’t go to church. I haven’t for a number of years. Apparently that doesn’t...

July 18, 2012

Staking My Life on Farm Boys

A Farewell: Kelly Foster is retiring from the Good Letters blogging team with this post....

June 2012

June 21, 2012

A Living Mythology

In the beginning was Ginnungagap. So begins one of Snorri Sturluson’s Norse creation stories from...

June 15, 2012

In Another Lifetime

Early one recent morning, I’m still half-asleep. The cat lies curled up between Craig and...