I report to you late on Friday night after two exhilarating days at the Festival of Faith and Writing at…
Debra RienstraApril 21, 2012
I admit there’s something romantic about wood stoves and typewriters and horse-drawn carriages and other technologies of the past. For…
Debra RienstraMarch 23, 2012
You know those times when you do an extra good job on something, even when you understand that no one…
Debra RienstraMarch 10, 2012
A couple weeks ago, fellow Twelver Jeff Munroe confessed his fondness for Downton Abbey, the gorgeous, Brit-made, upstairs-downstairs soap opera…
Debra RienstraFebruary 25, 2012
Last week my mother spent a night in the hospital because of atrial fibrillation. Her heart gets out of rhythm,…
Debra RienstraFebruary 11, 2012
It’s only January and already I can’t stand another minute of “news coverage” of the presidential race. I have stopped…
Debra RienstraJanuary 28, 2012
I apologize for passing over the many great posts since Theresa’s post on vocation, but I’d like to go back…
Debra RienstraJanuary 14, 2012
Books lying around the house are never safe from my readerly omnivory. So naturally I grabbed up the book my…
Debra RienstraDecember 31, 2011
As usual, these December days are zinging by us at twice the speed of other months. No doubt you’re earnestly…
Debra RienstraDecember 17, 2011
