Love is patient, part one
Let us not become weary in doing good, for we believe that in God's timing we will receive a harvest from our endurance. Wait patiently...
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Shanley McConnell
- Feb 6
- 2 min
The Monday Review, week twenty five
1. Brother of the More Famous Jack, Barbara Trapido This small, seemingly unassuming novel was recommended to me by a new friend in...
Shanley McConnell
- Jan 30
- 3 min
The Monday Review, week twenty four
1. Dear Boy, Emily Berry I walked into old memories where I would visit the quiet, brightly-lit fourth floor of the Wellgate Library on...
- Oct 29, 2018
- 5 min
The Monday Review, week one
~ It is Monday again, and I am four layers of sweaters & gloves in the library of stained-glass and quiet. Mondays are my favourite for...
- Oct 22, 2018
- 2 min
The Monday Review: Introduction.
~ ~ Morning mornings are for reflection, sweet tea and rest. For listening to Ballet of the Little Cafe; the melody of it lifting itself...
- Oct 11, 2018
- 2 min
Oxford: October.
~ Three weeks. And maybe a few days more. That is how long I have been living in this new city. Oxford is a transition; it is so...
- Aug 29, 2018
- 5 min
Time Is Not Stationary As It Is Unchanging.
~ ~ We didn't realise, at first, that sometimes time is not stationary as it is unchanging------as it is so full of motion, tidal waves...
- Aug 13, 2018
- 2 min
Life Lesson: The How-To I Treasure Most From My University Years.
~ A few months ago, a friend of mine asked me about my experience at University; this was before we donned cap, gown and heels to walk...
- Jul 26, 2018
- 2 min
Beauty, Guest Post by Zoe Cassells
~ There's a proverb; it reads a lil' something like this: gracious speech is like honey-----sweet to the soul, healing to bone and body....
- Jul 7, 2018
- 3 min
Review of Shrines of Upper Austria by Phoebe Power (Shortlisted Collection), published by DURA.
Phoebe Power (Carcanet, 2018); pbk, £9.99 Phoebe Power’s Shrines of Upper Austria beckons to the wayfarers. An amalgamation of poetry and...
- Jun 28, 2018
- 2 min
A Story About Words, Guest Post by Rebecca Baird.
So she agrees; her life is a friendship between risk and responsibility. Her work, reliable and leading; her words, avant-garde and...
- Jun 26, 2018
- 3 min
How To Grieve On The Good Days: In Memory Of.
~ Many of you know that my beloved great grandmother passed away here on earth last week. It was a Monday in the UK; we had spent hours...
- Jun 26, 2018
- 2 min
An Exercise In Beauty, Guest Post by Helen Brower.
I'm thrilled to welcome Helen Brower (of Inspire, Embrace and Never Apologise) back to the blog for this morning's post: An Exercise in...
- Jun 23, 2018
- 3 min
Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice? Guest Post by Lizzie Husum.
What a joy it is to welcome Lizzie Husum to the blog this morning, sending a bit of her story all the way from Herning, Denmark. I met...
- Jun 21, 2018
- 6 min
Graduation Day: To The Dearest Great Grandmother & All Who Loved Her
~ ~ We used to play cards every night. She had one of those old-fashioned, wooden contraptions that was always filled to the brim with...
- Jun 19, 2018
- 3 min
The Seven Stages of Acceptance, Guest Post: The Seven Stages of Acceptance, with Maddie Bayley
Maddie is sweet spontaneity; she is the "coffee-today?" kind-of-friend, always a message away, willing to reschedule plans in order to...
- Jun 16, 2018
- 4 min
On Writing About Beauty, Guest Post by Emily Fletcher.
I met this sweet soul three years ago in our first Creative Writing class together; quiet and sincere, she wore grace like the fashion...
- Jun 7, 2018
- 2 min
The Concept Of Beauty: *Social Media Edition, Guest-Post by Sarah Gillespie.
I'm thrilled to invite Sarah Gillespie to my blog this month. The first time I met this beautiful artist, I remember she smiled right...
- Jun 6, 2018
- 1 min
Grow Unto Yourself, Guest Post by Stephanie Koetsier
Sometimes-------most times, really------risk is writing. Or, writing, risk. I guess it depends on the themes & times & topics. And it...
- Jun 4, 2018
- 3 min
Guest Post: Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder, with Deborah Barker
What a joy it is to welcome Deborah Barker to the blog this morning. She is such a brilliant artist whose eyes delight in treasuring work...
- Jun 1, 2018
- 3 min
When Something Known Becomes Something Learned, Understood & New
It only took the walk from the parking garage on the West End to the print shop South of Perth Road to realise that I was collecting...
- May 20, 2018
- 5 min
Mud Sunk Shoes & Orange Lion Tears.
Mud Sunk Shoes & Orange Lion Tears When I was nine, we made a pact. It was a sort-of real-life adventure-code that included three rules....
- May 15, 2018
- 5 min
Lasagna For Four; guest-post by Rhiannon Lindsay-Andrews
What an honour it is to invite a fellow writer & life-chef to the blog this morning. Rhiannon Lindsay-Andrews has been a friend of mine...
- May 5, 2018
- 3 min
A Friday Film: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, published by DURA (2018)
(UK, 2018) 20 April — 03 May, DCA The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society is a cinematic composition. Simple and charming, the...
- Apr 24, 2018
- 1 min
To Summer.
summer, you are seasonal flowers we make perfume from your petals we pour it over our feet we pick strawberries and stargaze and pretend...
- Apr 14, 2018
- 4 min
Life Update: University Courses, Graduation & Continued Study.
They said the forecast was sunshine; bright & solemn. But it is grey outside, and far more beautiful than the burn of something so bold....
- Apr 9, 2018
- 2 min
A Friday Film: The Promise (2016)
Cinematic Reviews: The Promise, directed by Terry George (2016). Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that it still...
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