What are your favorite Christmas books?

In honor of St. Nicholas Day, my boys and I are about to snuggle by the fire and read one of our favorite Christmas books: The Baker’s Dozen: A St. Nicholas Tale A fair but tight-fisted baker learns an important lesson about generosity. This new edition includes a recipe and pattern for St. Nicholas cookies. … Read more

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Are you overwhelmed by juggling everything on your endless to-do list? Is it tough to balance your family life and work responsibilities? Throw in a home business and/or homeschooling, and the challenges grow even more! If you’re frustrated, exhausted, and overwhelmed, you may benefit from my 7-hour home study course, How Do You Do It … Read more

Real Men Read Austen

“Real Men Read Austen.” That’s the title of chapter 1 of Peter Leithart’s excellent book, Miniatures & Morals: The Christian Novels of Jane Austen. Leithart says if he could have dinner with a dozen of the greatest British and American writers, he’d want the seat next to Jane Austen because she would be the most … Read more

Lesser Titles

Great titles are really important to the success of a book (or movie). A while back there was something called “Lesser Titles” on Twitter. Here are a few of my contributions: The Sun Also Peeps through the Clouds in the Rain The Cerulean Letter The Taming of the Meerkat Sleepless in Schenectady Lost: Pair o’ … Read more

Eudora Welty, 1909-2001

One of my favorite authors, Eudora Welty, was born 102 years ago today. It’s hard to believe it’s been almost 10 years since I attended her funeral, which I wrote about for the Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook. I was privileged to meet Miss Welty at a writing conference in the late 1980s. In this … Read more

Book Madness!

Back when sports fans were filling out their college basketball brackets, I wrote on Facebook that these were the only brackets that interested me: [ ] ( ) { } < > I was wrong. Even better than punctuation brackets is a book bracket. Now this is a competition I can really get into! Voting … Read more