Have you met a president? How close through playing 6 Degrees of Separation?
Personal First Hand Research–in Your Own Family!
Your family is the best source of personal research. Start with the simple ones first: “Tell me a story.” Out of the past can come amazing tales that not only are true but are pertinent to you. If your family remembers them, they probably reverberate with emotion, too. (And if someone claims to have no memory of their childhood, I…
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First Hand Research and Oswald Chambers
I’ve spent time in Wheaton College’s Special Collections library looking through first hand research in the Oswald Chambers collection. As I read through the papers, housed in archival boxes, the archivist asked me what, specifically, I sought. “I don’t know. Just color details.” I found plenty of remarks, tossed aside comments, diary scribblings (though not in Biddy’s Bible–she wrote her notes in…
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Astonishing Research–Madeleine L’Engle
A surprising letter from Madeleiene L’Engle– 36 years after it was sent.
Holding Oswald Chambers’ Bible: the Book that Changed Many Lives
The awe of holding Oswald Chambers’ actual Bible.
Who Wouldn’t Want to Write about Texas?
Why set a story in Texas? The enormity of possibilities! Countless writers have written about the state from the sprawling Texas by James Michener to the nine novellas in The Texas Brides Collection. The seven writers in this collection have a variety of links to the state. Kathleen Y’Barbo is an Old Three Hundred descendant. Michelle Ule’s ancestor’s arrival ten years later,…
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