writing in the margins of life
Douglas Bond, author of several historical fiction novels, recently hosted a contest where one had to write a stanza that matched the syntax and style of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, and captured the essence of how the Gospel proves that "wrong shall fail and right prevail." The following is a poem that was born during [...]
"You may not understand why He leads you now in this way and now in that, but you may, nay, you must believe that perfection is stamped on His every act."Stepping Heavenward by Elizabeth Prentiss I remember one year ago, waking up on my eighteenth birthday. I crept downstairs in the dark early hours, made [...]
My Dear Lucy, I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound, you will be older still. But some day you will be [...]
Dear Homeschool Mom, I know you work tirelessly from before sunrise to after sunset. I know you sometimes forgo your morning shower to help me with a math problem. I know you say "no" to lunch invitations from your girlfriends because I have a piano lesson. I know you cry sometimes, because you're afraid I'll [...]
Madelyn Istrate 