by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Life stories sometimes need to “ferment” awhile before they’re ready to be shared. You may have an experience or event, or perhaps a personal encounter, that you’ve been mulling over, wondering if others might benefit from the telling of that...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 10, 2017 | Family
Last week, at the Breathe Christian Writers Conference in Grand Rapids, I shared a story about my friend, Kathy. I called her a reluctant modern-day prophet, a “creator” who did not believe she could create with words, who came to a time in her life when she could not...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 9, 2017 | Uncategorized
I ended yesterday’s blog post with these words: “Tell your story. The book of this world is not finished without it.” Author and speaker Leslie Leyland Fields was addressing writers at a conference, but I believe she was also speaking to each of us...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
I spent the last couple of days at the Breathe Christian Writers Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan. While I joined discussions about writing, heard talks about writing and even read about writing, I did very little writing. Hence, the blank spot in day #7 in my...
by Ingrid Lochamire | Oct 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
I spent a good part of my young adult life “homesick”, not knowing where I belonged yet filled with a yearning to belong somewhere. Author Christie Purifoy shares a piece of her search for home in a guest post today. Christie’s book, Roots & Sky:...
