by Shari Dragovich | Oct 4, 2017 | Faith, On Writing, Reviews, These Days, Uncategorized
Tomorrow morning I leave for Grand Rapids, MI for the Breathe writing conference. I am presenting two sessions—my first time presenting at a writing conference. I should be working on the final edits and notes for my second presentation. But instead, my eyes landed on...
by Shari Dragovich | Jun 7, 2014 | Bookmarks, Faith, Reviews
Last year in this very season, after moving to Roanoke and collapsing the last box, our family began the dreaded work of finding a new church home. Most people call this process “church shopping,” and I would have used this term, too, except that I’d done enough...
by Shari Dragovich | Mar 31, 2014 | Bookmarks, Reviews
Can you believe it? The first quarter of 2014 is already drawing itself closed. Since I’ve already proven haphazard with my book reviews (one official—title and all—in January and a myriad of personal reflections over one early in March), and since I’ve been agonizing...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 31, 2014 | Bookmarks, Faith, Reviews
As promised, I am offering my first book review for 2014. To call it a “review” seems so formal and responsibility-laden. I prefer “wonderings” or “considerations”. Maybe someday I’ll reach the comfort and expertise level of “reviewer.” But for now… The Return of the...
by Shari Dragovich | Jan 18, 2014 | Bookmarks, Currently Reading, On Writing, Reviews
When I was creating this blog, I was quite certain that book musings would play a regular if not leading role in what I shared. After all, reading is like oxygen to my lungs; the beauty of the written word may begin in my mind, but soon travels throughout my soul...
by Shari Dragovich | May 16, 2012 | Bookmarks, Children's reading, Currently Reading, Faith, Mothering, Reviews, Women's Issues
I’m reading The Yearling to my children. The Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Marjorie Kennan Rawlings is set in the Florida scrub forests surrounding a poor yet sturdy family, the Baxters, living amongst an island of pines post Civil War. The story is written...
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