Sarah's Blog
This includes writings about gardening, teaching, spirituality, nature, and recovery.
Category: free writing
Looking into Paradise Lost: Calling the Spirit
The first 34 lines of the epic set the stage for everything else. They explain the speaker’s purpose, tell us we are listening to the Holy Spirit, and show that the Fall is part of a much larger tapestry. (1:…
Read MoreLooking into Paradise Lost: Rebel’s Writing Process
Now it takes two books and the Bible to explore the idea that Adam and Eve were heroes and not just responsible for everything wrong with the world. The book entitled Paradise Lost is a Norton Critical Edition, edited by…
Read MoreThings in a pile
Having shared a photo to begin the process, I am about to go back to Paradise Lost and/or some other projects. We can always begin again, no matter how long the lapse.
Read MoreLooking into a Labyrinth: Adam and Eve Again
We may need to reconsider everything we have heard about Original Sin. I suspected this when my Bible Study Ladies read Lost Women of the Bible, by Carolyn Custis James. This collection of linked essays begins with Eve’s story, and…
Read MoreLast Free Day?
This is probably the last day I will be appointment-free for the foreseeable future. Every day contains at least one commitment. A trip to North Carolina for a convention–fun for me, work for my husband– comes at the end of…
Read MoreChanging Names
This may well be a picture of a mesquite flower. It was growing outside the motel I occupied while visiting family out west. Passing through the flat, flat land of West Texas and living under that big, big sky…
Read MoreStuck Indoors
I am working on a portfolio we have to submit every semester at the college where I teach. It would take a boringly long time to explain everything that goes into it, and this writing is a big chunk…
Read MoreAfter an Absence
It’s over a year since I have put anything on this blog. Right now, I am supposed to be grading essays. I just took a minute to check my e-mail, saw that my WordPress money is due, decided not to…
Read MoreBeginner blogging
I do not know what I am doing. How do I get a row of tabs across the page? Make everything look better? Clicking around on random tutorials confuses me. Decades ago, a pompous therapist said I was wandering around…
Read MoreThe Best Writing Teacher
Through this book, Natalie Goldberg taught me a whole lot about spilling everything on to the page and finding material from the result. When I named the blog Writing Practice, I was using her ideas. For that reason, this…
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