Writing Life Archives

Michelle Ule’s Yuletide Bride

I love the rhyme and the pun of these words: The Yuletide Bride by Michelle Ule. What could be better…
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Do music and math talent go together? I first heard of the connection when I was twelve and taking piano…
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I first glimpsed Laura Ingalls Wilder’s books as a second grader. Our new school building opened that year and the…
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How writers choose names for their characters.

Often, I find myself weeping over the sepia photos while researching. It happened again this week. While researching World War I…
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Kathleen Chambers was the only little girl in a World War I camp in Egypt. Her father, Oswald Chambers served a chaplain…
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