Essays
Summerween, Love at First Bite (Substack, June 2026)
The Sound of Hope - Herbert Zipper (Substack, June 2026)
The Pedagogy and Poetics of Trees (Substack, May 2026)
How to Be a Poet at the Beach (Substack, May 2026)
Jesus in Situ (Solid Food Press, April 2026)
In Praise of the Hermit Thrush and Composer Amy Beach (Substack, April 2026)
To Display Versus to Discard (Substack, March 2026)
Cracked Cisterns and the Search for Water: Lentent Devotional (Substack, March 2026)
Silent Screams (Substack, February 2026)
Visions (Substack, January 2026)
Nostalgia’s Yearning (Substack, January 2026)
Cairns (Substack, December 2025)
The Friendly Beasts (Substack, December 2025)
Louise Glück’s Poetry of Waiting (Substack, November 2025)
Spooky Soundtrack (Substack, October 2025)
Seed for Sowing Should Not Be Milled: The Art of Käthe Kollwitz (Substack, October 2025)
Ramona Quimby and Me (Substack, September 2025)
Water Prayers & Footnotes (Substack, August 2025)
The Bookish Life (Substack, August 2025)
Caring for Nellie (Substack, July 2025)
Embodied (Substack, July 2025)
The Arrival of Fireflies (Substack, June 2025)
The Sound of Hope (Substack, June 2025)
Water Words (Substack, June 2025)
In Flight (Identity Theory, May 2025)
How to Make a Sock Monkey (Substack, May 2025)
Caution: Words at Play (Substack, May 2025)
April Showers and May Flowers (Substack, April 2025)
In Search of Fairies (Substack, April 2025)
For the Love of Small Things (Substack, April 2025)
Necessary Ingredients for Baking a Cake (Substack, April 2025)
Dear Reader: Celebrating Beloved Books and Their First Lines (Substack, March 2025)
We Need Two Pockets for Lent (Substack, March 2025)
Margaret Dryburgh’s “The Captives’ Hymn” (Earth & Altar, February 2025)
The Siren (Five Minute Lit, February 2025)
Two Dollars’ Worth (Substack, February 2025)
My Grandmother’s Ornaments (Blue Villa, December 2024)
The Shape of Grief (Blue Villa, December 2024)
Benedictions at the Threshold (Foreshadow, September 2024)
Flying Lessons (Thimble, September 2024)
Book Review of The Safey of Small Things (Yellow Arrow, September 2024)
The Lost Art of Single-Tasking (Oranges, May 2024)
The Choir (Solid Food Press, May 2024)
The Blessing of Brokenness (Word of the Lamb, March 2024)
Alma and the Orchestra (The Mersey Review, March 2024)
Tenderizing Our Hearts (Clayjar Review, January 2024)
The Living Among the Dead (The Galway Review, December 2023)
Snow Day (anthology, Storytellers’ True Stories of Triumph, 2023)
Telling the Bees (Still, October 2023)
What Is Theopoetics? Part 1 (Earth & Altar, July 2023)
What Is Theopoetics? Part 2 (Earth & Altar, July 2023)
The Weight of Words: On Keeping a Commonplace Book (Vignette by Yellow Arrow Publishing, July 2023)
The Freedom of the Dance (Syncopation Literary Journal, June 2023)
Two Dollars’ Worth (Writerly Magazine, March 2023)
Book Review of Refugia Faith (Psaltery & Lyre, February 2023)
Tending the Threshold (Agape Review, January 2023)
In Search of Fairies (The Primer, Issue 2: Relics, December 2022)
A Word made Flesh is seldom (Calla Press, December 2022)
Books as a Guide for the Female Journey (Musing, The Nuances of New-Age Feminism, October 2022)
Resting in God “At the Still Point” (Earth & Altar, June 2022)
Four Spiritual Practices for Praying and Interacting with God’s Word (Medium, May 2021)
Cultivating Mindfulness During the Online Music Lesson (Medium, October 2020)