by Linda Mackillop | May 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
I recently had the chance to sit in on a workshop called “Loving Our Neighbors and Enemies: Writing toward Reconciliation,” led by the dynamic author and speaker Leslie Leyland Fields. Her balanced approach to addressing forgiveness within the context of broken...
by Linda Mackillop | Apr 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I’m grateful for all the youth in our lives these days. Not my youth, of course (which packed up and headed for warmer territory many years ago), but the youth of our many young friends, my sons, and their friends who all color our lives and bring a vibrancy that an...
by Linda Mackillop | Jan 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
At lunch recently a co-worker shared that growing up, her father owned a funeral home in a small Tennessee town; she and her siblings were all part of the business. They had a dark comedic side that they brought to the work, like getting a chuckle when their favorite...
by Linda Mackillop | Jan 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
I read the blogs of friends who are in the midst of raising families and one friend who blogs (beautifully and deliciously!) about food. I recall my domestic days that seem in the distant past, those moments of making a family feel safe and loved. But now my...
by Linda Mackillop | Nov 23, 2013 | Uncategorized
You turn thirty today. How can that be? I hope you feel more joyous about this milestone than I felt on my own thirtieth birthday, heavy with a twin pregnancy, feeling old, old, tired and old and full of dread toward entering another decade. Today, more...
