This year, my home parish offered everyone a little gift at Christmastime—one that we were not to keep for ourselves, and one that, this week, I’m extending to you.   In light of the call to a New Evangelization, our church set out a ton of copies of a fantastic book about a Protestant couple’s […]

Two years ago, I established a designated weekly writing time. When we moved in with my in-laws this summer, I established a couple of mornings each week as editing time. In the last few months, I realized something else—something rather elementary—needed to find its way into my schedule as well: reading books.   Novel writing […]

Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Harding recently posted five writing tips in Publishers Weekly, and one in particular stuck out to me:   “It’s true, too, that your writing can only be as good as the best readings you’ve given of the best books.”   Harding makes the point that a writer need not simply read […]