by Ingrid Lochamire | Feb 5, 2021 | Family, Good Books, Slice of Life, Story
Yesterday was our youngest son’s 26th birthday. Our oldest son is 36, and there are two more sons in between. The minute I read the word “sunrise”, chosen as today’s Five Minute Friday writing prompt, I thought of the beautiful song from...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Feb 3, 2021 | Faith, Good Books, Slice of Life, Story
When you find a kindred spirit, the smart thing to do is to stay in touch. Traci Rhoades stood out in the crowd of aspiring writers at a conference we both attended a decade ago. I thank God that Traci had the same gut instinct because our long-distance friendship has...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Jan 3, 2021 | Family, Good Books, Slice of Life
I taught our four sons at home for 20 years, from the time the oldest entered third grade until the youngest graduated from high school. Homeschooling was a “career” I loved and I would do it all over again. Choosing curriculum and writing lesson plans for...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Sep 22, 2020 | Good Books, Podcast Episodes, Story
“No one’s story exists alone. Each is tangled up in countless others. Pull a thread in my story and feel the tremor half a world and two millennia away.” ~ Daniel Taylor, author of Tell Me a Story Socrates famously wrote “To know thyself is the beginning...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Jun 16, 2020 | Faith, Good Books, Slice of Life
“Let us speak for ourselves.” The words stung, but they needed to be said. In response to an all-white panel discussion a few years ago around the topic “how can white authors write about and for people of color”, this one statement gave us the...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Apr 25, 2020 | Good Books, Writing
It’s National Book Day as I write this post — but then, every day is a “book day” in my house. Honestly there are books everywhere, including a box full that I’ll deliver to our local used book store once the COVID-19 restrictions are...
