by Linda Mackillop | Dec 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
We went to a lovely wedding this weekend and witnessed a young couple who are madly in love commit to each other for a lifetime. When my husband and I made the same promise 31 years ago, we were in perfect health, filled with energy and the promise of a new and...
by Linda Mackillop | Oct 19, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace, it shouldn’t be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.” Corazon Aquino It’s happened to me twice in the past year....
by Linda Mackillop | Sep 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
My faculty mentor in my writing program wants me to turn two of my fictional characters into stronger antagonists. She feels they’re not quite causing enough trouble in their current form. The purpose of an antagonist is to prevent your main character from reaching...
by Linda Mackillop | Jul 12, 2014 | Uncategorized
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.” – Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.) You learned later in life to utter that prayer for yourself and others, the one that pops up regularly in your mind: “Lord, give me the words – and the...
by Linda Mackillop | Jun 15, 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s Father’s Day, and I’m watching as all the tributes to wonderful Dads fill the Facebook world. I expected them, and celebrate with my friends whose dads passed down remarkable legacies. But some of us had very broken dads, and we inherited a different kind of...
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...
