by Dana VanderLugt | Feb 4, 2020 | On faith, On living, On parenting, Uncategorized
By Artemisia Gentileschi , Public Domain, Thanks to The Twelve blog for allowing me space to reflect on how I thought telling the Children’s Bible stories at church would be easy. I was wrong. You can read the blog post here.
by Dana VanderLugt | Jun 14, 2019 | On living, On parenting, On Writing
Photo by Thom Holmes on Unsplash A friend’s mom, (a dear woman I’ve written about here before), raising four kids — all six years and under and with only one family car her husband took to work each day — once wrote a letter to the State of Maine...
by Dana VanderLugt | Jan 18, 2018 | On faith, On living, On parenting, On teaching, On Writing
inˈten(t)SH(ə)n(ə)l/ adjective: done on purpose; deliberate. Synonyms: calculated, conscious, intended, purposeful I talk to my writing students about audience all the time — “Know your audience,” I tell them, “Your tone, your style, your voice...
by Dana VanderLugt | Jul 28, 2017 | On living
We were gathered around a table for book club — a book club that does include some discussion of a book, but mainly provides a chance to decompress, to gather a group of women around a patio and chat without being needed or summoned by anyone else for a few...
by Dana VanderLugt | Jun 16, 2017 | On faith, On living
I’m writing today from my sunroom table, my favorite summer writing spot. I’ve mentioned this favorite place before — the light breeze through the screened doors, the farmer’s fields lit up bright green by the morning sun, the robins chirping away. But this...