History, Real Life, and Faith
As we walked through the graveyard dusk of a late July some 17 years ago, the dead came alive to me. There as the sun lowered to the horizon and the birds settled to bed, Uncle Ernest told stories at grave after grave. I was writing the story of my grandmother’s life that year and this visit was to fill in the…
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Digging up the seed root of bitterness–how to.
Is it unusual in your world to see a woman wearing a cross around her neck? Standing in line to tour the Hungarian Parliament building in Budapest, I got into a lengthy discussion of recent history with my sister-in-law’s cousin, Attila (“the Hun,” as he likes to say). The conversation in English had become quite animated when I noticed the…
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Checking out of life with Kristin Lavrandotter
How to know when you finished researching and it’s time to write?
My family loved visiting the London war zone. Married to a now-retired naval officer, I’m still often involved in military matters and that holds particularly true while on vacation. We’ve actually dubbed some of our trips by the wars we wound up investigating. There was the infamous French and Indian War trip (Maine, Quebec, Fort Ticonderoga), the Civil War outings…
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