Lucinda Secrest McDowell is an award-winning author, my fellow co-director of reNEW – retreat for New England Writing and Speaking, and a wonderful friend. Below, Lucinda shares her practice of turning scripture, God’s Word,
Christmas lights in London are never very stunning, yet in January Londoners and the city’s visitors are going to be dazzled. Huge areas of the city will be transformed with lighted art displays. An
Singapore’s air hung like a heavy blanket. The sun desperately wanted to shine; it could only manage a pale glow. Nearby, farmers on the island of Sumatra were using a technique called slash and
I woke up the other morning to whack, whack, whack, whack. It went on and on and on, like a thumping headache. Enough to give me one. It was the racket of machinery hammering away